Jon Excell

C2I 2018: HVM catapult takes technology off-piste

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The winner of this year's Manufacturing Technology award  - Sit Ski - was the eye-catching result of a concerted effort to drive collaboration across the UK's High Value Manufacturing catapult

C2I 2018 Manufacturing Technology

Collaborate To Innovate 2018

Category: Manufacturing Technology

Winner: Sit Ski

Partners: High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) with Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) National Composites Centre (NCC) Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Centre for Process Industries (CPI)

There are few more collaborative environments in UK engineering than the seven facilities that make up the government’s High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult: centres of excellence that bring together businesses and research groups to drive forward a host of different technologies.

But despite the rich culture of knowledge sharing within these facilities, collaboration between the catapult’s component parts - many of which existed before its formation - has not always come naturally, partly due to the commercially sensitive nature of much of the work they’re involved in.

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