The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a new safety alert related to mild steel welding as a potential cause of cancer.
TWI Ltd
TWI is a world leading research and technology organisation with a focus on materials, engineering and manufacturing.
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 899 000
Address :
Granta Park Great Abington
Post Code: CB21 6AL
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.twi-global.com
Membership Type: Corporate 51+
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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TWI will coordinate part of a new €17 million collaborative project to develop technologies to allow geothermal plants to cost-effectively respond to network heat and power demands.
04-03-2019
The three-year long HEGEL project commenced in early 2017 following a successful bid for Clean Sky funding by a consortium comprising Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), the University of Twente and TWI Ltd.
19-02-2019
TWI experts, including Technology Fellow Professor Alan Taylor were present for the launch of the Surface Engineering Leadership Forum (SELF).
15-02-2019
Downing Street meeting marks closer government co-operation on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Industrial Strategy.
06-02-2019
Christoph Wiesner is stepping down from his position as TWI Chief Executive this year, a role he has held since 2010. The past nine years have seen many changes, both within TWI and across the industries it serves. But TWI has tackled the challenges arising from these and has moved forward into promising new directions whilst maintaining the key positives of the past.
28-01-2019
Registration is open for TWI’s Fifth International Symposium on Linear Friction Welding, which takes place at the Granta Centre, TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge CB21 6AL on 20-21 March 2019.
18-01-2019
TWI’s Tipper Group supports women working in industries involved in welding and associated technologies and, as part of their mission to encourage and support women in engineering, they took advantage of TWI’s in-house training school to take part in a welding appreciation course.
17-01-2019
Registration is now open for the National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) 2019 Annual Conference, taking place on 2-3 July at the Granta Centre, TWI Ltd, Cambridge.
17-01-2019
Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) have confirmed that TWI is among the first 6% of their customers to migrate across to the new international standard for Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 45001.
10-01-2019
Aamir Khalid has been appointed as successor to Christoph Wiesner and the next Chief Executive of TWI. Aamir will take over the role on Friday 1 February 2019.
19-12-2018
The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) near Cambridge has a proven track record of providing postgraduate students with the skills needed by industry, with more than 200 MSc and PhD students benefitting in the last five years.
26-11-2018
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayor, James Palmer, met this week with the new Chair of the Combined Authority Business Board, Professor Aamir Khalid at TWI’s Granta Park headquarters.
23-11-2018
WeldGalaxy, an international and collaborative initiative to create a digital B2B online platform that connects global buyers with the EU sellers of welding equipment and consumables, officially kicked-off on 4th October 2018. The consortium, led by TWI Ltd as the coordinator, comprises 11 members including SMEs and research organisations across Europe.
22-10-2018
TWI is set to hold a welding exhibition on 22 May 2019 at the company headquarters near Cambridge. This latest event follows on from the success of the last exhibition that was held in March 2018 and will once again feature several original equipment manufacturers demonstrating the latest technology and products with end users across a number of different industry sectors.
18-09-2018
A team comprising TWI Ltd and the SIMULIA brand of Dassault Systèmes has been awarded joint 1st Place: Best modelling results predicting the residual stresses within an as-built IN625 bridge structure – residual elastic strains (metals) in the 2018 Additive Manufacturing Benchmark (AM-Bench) Challenge organised by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
06-09-2018
3D X-ray microscopy (XRM) is a non-destructive imaging technique that provides internal three-dimensional (3D) information in extraordinary detail for specimens, samples, equipment and parts.
04-09-2018
A final project looking at a range of joining processes and learning about engineering critical assessment to predict the continued safe operation of a structure successfully completes a two-year Arkwright Scholars’ experience programme at TWI for sixth formers Adam Cliff and Oscar Jopp.
22-08-2018
The Structural Integrity Technical Group of The Welding Institute (TWI) and the UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI) recently addressed a topic that is currently of substantial research and industrial interest by jointly holding a full day’s Constraint Effects in Fracture seminar.
20-08-2018
TWI is taking the lead in the Open Architecture Additive Manufacturing (OAAM) project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture large metallic components via Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the benefit of UK Aerospace.
14-08-2018
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