i-Composites – Inspirational Composite Technologies

 

Theme: Sustainability
Time: 12:00
Room: Sustainability Hall 2

 

To view presentations from the session

 

click here - The Affordable Composites Grand Challenge, John Cornforth 

click here - The Bentley Raycell Automated Carbon Composite Charge Deposition Process ‘BRAC3D’, Antony Dodworth

click here - Sector Technology Transfer GKN BRAC3D, Sam Hutchins

click here - Vestas Recycling Project, Andrew Dyer

click here - How to manage a Grand Challenge, Will Searle

 

i-Composites is the wining project of the Affordable Composites Grand Challenge, the consortium led by GKN Aerospace and 22 British businesses to develop innovative composite manufacturing techniques for high-performance, high value-added products.  Launched in April ’10, the £10M programme has one year in which to develop, demonstrate and promote action to make the manufacturing of composites more affordable within a multi-sector market.

 

What will the seminar cover?

 

The seminar will discuss the challenges of bringing emerging composite technologies to market where performance, cost and sustainability are key sensitivities. There will also be the opportunity to learn how this type of Technology Strategy Board programme is managed with discussion on how to address the grand challenges of delivering technology complexity, with a significant budget profile, and a challenging timeline.

 

What will you learn?

 

By joining this session you will discover how innovation and industrial challenges across a range of manufacturing sectors are being met through sustainable use of advanced materials combined with the application of technologies that reduce the manufacturing cost, process time and energy consumption.

 

Who should attend?

 

The workshop should be attended by leaders and stakeholders from across all sectors including manufacturing, materials and construction sectors with an interest in understanding the extent of the UK’s excellence in advanced composites developments and how the latest technology might be applied in a cost-effective way to their products.

 

The speakers and facilitators in this session are: Richard Newley, Research Director, GKN Composites Technology Centre; Will Searle, Programme Manager, Axillium Research & Consulting; Mustafa Rampuri, Project Manager, National Composites Centre; and John Morlidge, Lead Technologist-Advanced Materials, Technology Strategy Board.