We connect technology strategy to real-world delivery through our end-to-end engineering services
NCC provides a gateway to world-class technology expertise and facilities.
This includes being the national Centre of Excellence for composite technologies, with a proven track record of innovation, world leading capabilities, and deep expertise in composite materials and manufacturing.
We believe the UK’s most successful manufacturing ecosystems are anchored in product and technology leadership. We use our end-to-end engineering services to connect that technology leadership to real-world delivery.
Our Technology Strategy sets out how NCC will stay at the cutting edge, building on our strengths and expanding our capabilities to deliver impact for UK industry.
New technologies and capabilities will transform the way we design, manufacture, and test new products and processes.
Lead growth sectors
To deliver technology innovation that matters, we build our capabilities around
the needs of industrial sectors. This ensures our work remains focused, relevant, and aligned with our Strategic Delivery Plan.
With a cross-sector consortium led by GKN Aerospace & McLaren Automotive, our systems engineering experts developed a Sustainability Maturity Level framework to support transparent, informed sustainability discussions in the supply chain.
Early career engineers at NCC developed an optimised seat for GB Canoeist Emma Wiggs. The digital capability to monitor structural health over time has broader applications, such as more sustainable through-life wind turbines or hydrogen storage solutions.
In collaboration with the University of Bristol, we've developed high-performance composite materials that were tested on the International Space Station. The results will inform the design of future space structures, such as space stations & interplanetary spacecraft.
The future of UK defence will be shaped by the materials we can access - and increasingly, by those we can produce ourselves. Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) are becoming critical to the next wave of aerospace and hypersonic systems. They offer a step change in performance where traditional materials fall short.
