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Technology

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.

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Read our Technology Strategy to learn which areas we're focusing on across materials, product, process and growth initiatives.

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Technology categories

Our technology portfolio is grouped into 4 categories and 11 themes. These building blocks help us generate the ideas, tools, and methods which are essential to deliver innovation and industrial impact for our customers and partners.
Technology themes

New technologies and capabilities will transform the way we design, manufacture, and test new products and processes.

Advanced materials
Systems engineering
Design and test
Circularity
Composite processes
Metallic processes
Production systems
Assurance
Complex systems
Future technologies

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.

AI controlled manufacturing for liquid resin infusion

Resin infusion is hard to control and even harder to optimise. That’s where AI could make a real difference. At NCC, we’ve created custom environments to train machine learning models on millions of infusion scenarios.

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Our Impact
CEAMS wins national award for breakthrough in recycled carbon fibre

A NCC led project within the Centre of Expertise in Advanced Materials and Sustainability (CEAMS) has won the prestigious ‘Sustainability - Circularity’ award at the 2025 Composites UK Industry Awards, recognising a major technical and industrial milestone in composite recycling.

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A new energy monitoring testbed to help cut costs and count carbon

NCC's energy monitoring testbed and digital capabilities can help manufacturers reduce costs and assess environmental impact.

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NCC to locate the UK’s first Carbon Fibre Development Facility in the North-West

Recognised in the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy and Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, the initiative will support the UK’s strategic growth sectors.

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Scaling innovation for a renewable future

Mon, 08 Dec 2025

In aerospace, we helped scale composite wing production and build a UK supply chain from scratch. Now, we’re applying the same approach to offshore wind, writes Ffion Rodes.

Reducing defects in wind turbine blade manufacturing

Fri, 05 Dec 2025

In response to the challenge of manufacturing large structures without costly defects, NCC linked multiple advanced technologies into a robust, real-world manufacturing system.

Deep Tech partnership

Thu, 04 Dec 2025

Science Creates and NCC unite to scale world-class research into globally competitive companies, supporting the ambitions of the UK’s new Industrial Strategy.

AI in engineering: Turning promise into practice

Wed, 03 Dec 2025

AI is often described as the future of engineering. The potential is huge – but it can be difficult to find examples of it working in real manufacturing. At NCC, we’re working to bridge that gap.

Watch: AI controlled manufacturing for liquid resin infusion

Mon, 01 Dec 2025

Resin infusion is hard to control and even harder to optimise. That’s where AI could make a real difference. At NCC, we’ve created custom environments to train machine learning models on millions of infusion scenarios.

Space West Newsletter - November 2025

Thu, 27 Nov 2025

Welcome to the November edition of our Space West Newsletter. With each newsletter, we aim to share the most recent discoveries, advancements, and stories from the world of Space in the South West.

University of Bristol to develop new ‘British Library’ for the AI age

Fri, 21 Nov 2025

The new National AI Data Facility will be located next to Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful AI supercomputer, on-site at NCC.

Feasibility funding now open 2025

Tue, 18 Nov 2025

UK businesses can now apply for a share of £2 million to explore new materials innovation through short feasibility studies - the first phase of the National Materials Innovation Programme (NMIP).

A new energy monitoring testbed to help cut costs and count carbon

Thu, 13 Nov 2025

NCC's energy monitoring testbed and digital capabilities can help manufacturers reduce costs and assess environmental impact.