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WH Tidesley
Find out how the AFRC helped provide a broad range of expertise, including our materials and metallurgy knowledge plus modelling and simulation advice.
MacTaggart Scott
Read more about how the AFRC helped this local company overcome its manufacturing problems through our expertise in materials and residual stress.
Rolls-Royce
Find out how the AFRC helped Rolls-Royce with a range of manufacturing processes from hydroforming, flowforming, superplastic forming and more.
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News & comment
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Manufacturing innovation: New national centre unveiled
An £8.9 million centre to help companies benefit from lightweight manufacturing technology has been officially opened by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
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The AFRC combines machining and additive manufacturing on the first hybrid platform of its kind in Scotland
The AFRC has integrated cutting-edge laser metal deposition (LMD) technology within a CNC machine, creating a unique platform that is the first of its kind in Scotland, and one of very few across the world.
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£1.2M project set up to deliver low cost, high value manufacture in the tool and die industry
The AFRC has joined forces with a consortium of six other companies to revolutionise the UK’s tool and die sector, paving way for low cost remanufacture within the industry.
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AFRC in €4.25m project to help 1,300 European SMEs revolutionise machining processes
The AFRC is the UK spoke in a North West Europe wide project designed to transform the machining sector, helping 1300 SMEs to stimulate turnover and employment through the uptake of Industry 4.0 technologies.
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BHGE partners with AFRC to push limits of advanced manufacturing for oil and gas
The AFRC and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), have joined forces to explore how some of the latest advanced manufacturing tools and processes can drive more efficient, smarter ways to reduce cost and increase productivity across BHGE’s operations.
