Tuesday 28th May 2019
Advanced Forming Research Centre
85 Inchinnan Drive, Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, PA4 9LJ
The Lightweight Manufacturing Centre
The Lightweight Manufacturing Centre in Renfrew is a new part of the Scottish Government’s National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS). It will focus on the manufacture of lightweight components for a range of industries in which lighter materials offer benefits, including, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, renewables, medical, marine and off-highway transport. It will deliver cutting-edge research and development projects involving lightweight materials in partnership with companies in Scotland
The workshop aims to address:
- Help define the scope of the Lightweighting Centre
- The technology pull (i.e. the industrial involvement)
- From an HVM Catapult perspective, where should the focus be?
- Identify the academic base that can underpin the Lightweighting Centre
- Discuss possible models for interaction between the academic base and the Lightweighting Centre
- Possible routes to funding
Areas of interest include:
- Additive manufacture.
- Fibre development
- Nanomaterials
- Composites
- New materials
- Adhesives
- Surface treatments
- Packaging
- Battery
- Printed electronics
- Processing, properties and chemistry