This month saw the end of the build stage for a major government supported programme to develop international research and technology organisation TWI’s existing site at Abington Hall, Granta Park, to accommodate its growth in business.
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TWI is a world leading research and technology organisation with a focus on materials, engineering and manufacturing.
It supports an international membership across most industrial sectors: energy, defence, healthcare, transport. Delivering technical consultancy and R&D, training, business support across the life-cycle of manufacturing, TWI offers a complete service: idea generation, product development and introduction, recycling and re-use.
TWI is one of the world’s foremost independent research and technology organisations, with expertise in solving problems in all aspects of manufacturing, fabrication and whole-life integrity management technologies.
Established at Abington, Cambridge, UK in 1946 and with facilities across the globe, the company has a first-class reputation for service though its teams of internationally respected consultants, scientists, engineers and support staff, whose knowledge and expertise are available to its Members as and when they require.
The company employs over 900 staff, serving 700 Member companies across 4500 sites in 80 countries. TWI also houses a professional institution, The Welding Institute, with a separate membership of 6000 individuals.
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Business Weekly’s 25 Year celebration at Queens’ College, Cambridge, last night (Tuesday) culminated in an awards ceremony to recognise those individuals and businesses that have over the past year made a significant contribution to the region’s success. TWI is proud to have been named International Trade Champion, and received the award from the new Head of UKTI East, Alan Pain.

Young engineers from one of TWI’s Industrial Member companies visited the organisation’s Cambridge headquarters recently to find out more about how TWI supports their work.

With the nomination process underway, TWI is encouraging companies to consider their last 12 months in terms of export success. This award recognises companies in the Cambridge region that have in the last year successfully exploited or exported a technology, product or service into international or emerging markets.

It has taken just 54 weeks to reach the completion phase in the construction of the first of three buildings in a £43 million site expansion project at TWI in Cambridge. This week saw the handover of the new large-scale engineering and test facility to TWI as Francis Shiner, Managing Director of local construction company SDC met with Chief Executive Christoph Wiesner to complete the official...
TWI is playing its part in promoting greater understanding of the role engineering plays in our society and economy.

The Arkwright Scholarships Trust recently made its largest ever award of scholarships to future leaders in the engineering profession. Sixth form scholarships were awarded to 410 young people at ceremonies in London and Glasgow.

Results of the Oxford Economics study extend the recent Hauser Report to show the full value of the wider sector to UK plc.

Construction work on research and technology company TWI's £43m expansion project is nearing completion, with the new engineering hall, laboratories, office space and conference facilities on track to be handed over to the company during the next few months.

Paul Woollin, Research Director at TWI, has been elected as a Fellow by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Paul is one of 59 new Fellows selected at the Royal Academy’s AGM to join the Fellowship in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to engineering.
TWI welcomes the announcement by the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Communities and Local Government, Stephen Williams MP, that the Government’s Growth Deal will support the launch of a new engineering test centre at Alconbury Enterprise Campus in north-west Cambridgeshire.

The Welding Institute’s Annual Awards and Dinner took place on 1 July 2014 at King’s College, Cambridge, with over 200 invited guests from industry and academia.
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation has signed a heads of agreement with TWI to provide £15m research funding to establish the new National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) nearing completion at TWI in Cambridge.

It was a chance to celebrate being a part of a great team when over 40 female engineers based at TWI's Granta Park headquarters got together to mark National Women in Engineering Day.

TWI is pleased to announce that their former Associate Director, and advanced materials specialist, Sue Dunkerton has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an OBE for her Services to Health and Engineering.

BP, one of the world’s leading exploration and production organisations, has signed an agreement with TWI to become a Founder Sponsor of the newly established Structural Integrity Research Foundation (SIRF). SIRF is the funding body behind the new industry-led research centre for postgraduate engineering education, the National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC), which is currently...

Nick Brown – a Surrey Engineering Doctorate (EngD) student spending four years with TWI Ltd has won the Richard Dolby Rolls Royce Prize for his research into an alternative way of machining composite materials. Open to all professional members of The Welding Institute, the prize was awarded to Nick following his presentation to a panel that included TWI's current and former research directors...

Chief Executive of TWI, Christoph Wiesner, and staff from TWI South East Asia have given the Malaysian Government Minister of Works Datuk Fadillah Yusof and the Chief Executive of the Malaysian Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Dato’ Sri Judin Karim a warm reception at the company’s Cambridge headquarters. The Minister visited the UK for a series of tours to leading research and...

A visit to TWI on Friday 7 March 2014 by Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire and Leader of the House of Commons Andrew Lansley CBE, and Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, has given the seal of approval to the company’s 25,000 square metre expansion programme at its Granta Park headquarters.

Following successful completion of groundworks in preparation for a 25,000 square metre expansion at its South Cambridgeshire laboratories, TWI has announced the appointment of Bedfordshire-based construction company SDC as main contractor for the programme. SDC is on schedule to complete the construction work by the end of 2014.
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