In terms of commercially focussed R&D expenditure, Yorkshire and Humber is one of the UK’s top performers outside of London, attracting £347 million in academic research investment.
This, combined with over 100 university subject areas facilities receiving the highest European research ratings, offers your business access to a wealth of expertise and innovation.
This commercially minded research base, is supported by a network of dedicated research centres, with strengths in metallic and composite materials, cutting technology, material science, joining technology and casting technology.
The region’s excellence in research, in both academic (link to bottom of page) and clinical areas, continues to drive growth and support successful spin out businesses.
By expanding into Yorkshire, your business could benefit from:
Yorkshire & Humber is home to the UK’s only national research and skills centre for metals technology. Namtec stimulates high technology developments by providing metallurgical support, research and development and training to engineering and manufacturing companies.
Based at the
National Metals Technology Centre in Rotherham, SEG aims to create a world-leading organisation that will develop and drive the competencies of the region’s advanced engineering and manufacturing companies using state-of-the-art surface engineering and coatings technologies, tools and techniques.
It offers a range of key support services to industry including a targeted R&D programme with the aim of increasing the profitability of regional companies.
The AMP is a world-class manufacturing technology park providing advanced solutions for advantage in industry. Technologies on the AMP focus on materials and structures, covering metallic and composite materials.
The AMRC is a multi million pound partnership between Sheffield University and Boeing, the world’s biggest aerospace company. The centre is internationally respected for developing innovative and pioneering technology solutions for advanced materials forming.
The AMRC offers the most progressive facility globally for materials cutting technology and is keen to build upon its internationally acknowledged research in metals into other materials such as composites.
Rolls-Royce - Factory of the Future
Based on the AMP - Houses the latest manufacturing equipment and state-of-the-art production capabilities to enable businesses to trial new developments on a full-scale commercial production capacity, before making significant and high-risk investment decisions.
The Advanced Manufacturing Park Technology Centre, based on the Advanced Manufacturing Park, offers high quality offices, workshops and meeting rooms.
Companies based at the Advanced Manufacturing Park Technology Centre benefit from sharing practice, enhanced supply chain linkages and collaboration, particularly R&D.
It offers businesses the opportunity to benefit from technology and knowledge transfer, therefore increasing competitiveness.
TWI Technology Centre (Yorkshire) runs a range of training courses and enables its customers to access TWI’s technologies and develop novel solutions through Technology Transfer programmes.
The main industry sectors targeted by the Technology Centre are aerospace, automotive, medical and sports equipment, plus oil and gas, defence and primary metals.
CAMTeC is a research, design, manufacturing and technology centre for composites, which builds upon the collaborative relationship between the University of Sheffield and Boeing.
CAMTeC assists companies to become effective and sustainable members of the aerospace supply chain and is capable of creating the tools, techniques, means and methodologies to enable the development and exploitation of composites and advanced materials which fall outside the traditional metals sector.
The MAS provides practical expertise to manufacturing businesses across the region. The service offers support in areas such as diagnostics, increasing productivity levels and raising operational efficiency.
The Nanotechnology Centre for Physical Vapour Deposition Research (NTCPVD) NTCPVD is part of the
Materials and Engineering Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. The Centre has a very successful history in the research and development of high performance functional coatings for applications in extreme environments, and of coatings for decorative applications.
Access academic industry expertise through:
To help businesses tap into the specialist skills and cutting edge expertise from our universities, a unique network; – the
Centres of Industrial Collaboration – were created,which bridge the gap between industry and university expertise.
These include:
Based at the University of Bradford, the Polymer CIC develops novel materials to replace metals used in the automotive industry, which offer benefits such as reduced weight versus metals and lower cost manufacturing methods.
The Engineering Design CIC, based at the University of Hull, provides the expert knowledge, advice, analysis, applied research and support to help organisations transform their product and engineering design processes. Design optimisation by computerised model, for example, in the generation of high performance structures with the least weight, is available.
Based at the University of Huddersfield, the Precision Technologies CIC offers a one-stop-shop expertise for precision engineering and metrology. This includes the cutting edge ‘Nanolab’, the only metrology lab of its kind in the UK and one of the most advanced in Europe. The rapid, precise manufacturing of aerospace materials is also available from the Precision Technologies CIC.
The Materials Analysis & Research Services CIC provides research supporting the development of tools to machine new materials at the highest levels of productivity.
The Centre, based at Sheffield Hallam University, developed a new generation of nanoscale, multilayer physical vapour deposition (PVD) high performance coatings, which can protect cutting tools used for the dry-drilling of aerospace alloys.
It has also developed a range of functional and decorative coatings for automotive and motor sport markets which enhance the properties of the materials, protect them under harsh operating conditions and improve aesthetic appeal, corrosion resistance, high temperature performance, wear resistance and reduce friction.
The widespread deployment of wireless communications is creating exciting new business opportunities. The Wireless Technologies CIC boasts one of the world’s most advanced centres of expertise in wireless communications, with expertise in security, surveillance and secure communications, wireless broadband systems, digital broadcasting and satellite phone technology.