WindTwin – a collaborative project to develop a high fidelity, digital software platform combining operational sensor data with virtual system model data for the predictive maintenance of wind turbines – has won R&D Programme of the Year at the Business Green Technology Awards 2017. The consortium behind the winning project comprises engineering technology experts Agility3, Brunel...
TWI Ltd
TWI is a world leading research and technology organisation with a focus on materials, engineering and manufacturing.
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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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15-12-2017
TWI is co-ordinating a recently won European Horizon 2020 project for the development of novel and cost-effective corrosion resistant coatings for high temperature geothermal applications. This project, dubbed Geo-Coat, comes from the low carbon energy call to develop next generation technologies for renewable electricity and heating/cooling.
14-12-2017
TWI’s Surface Engineering Consultant, Dave Harvey, presented at the recent International Graphene Summit in Beijing. This event, co-organised by TWI China Industrial Member, AECC BIAM, celebrated the recent opening of the Beijing Graphene Industry Innovation Center.
08-12-2017
TWI Ltd took the lead in demonstrating product and process solutions for the aerospace industry at the recent Advanced Engineering Show at the NEC in Birmingham.
07-12-2017
TWI Certification Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of TWI Ltd, has delivered certification to Tyne Metropolitan College (TyneMet), confirming their excellent competence and capability in welder training.
05-12-2017
TWI has recently showcased the world’s largest Linear Friction Welded (LFW) component – an aluminium wing rib for commercial aircraft.
30-11-2017
TWI’s patented VitoNano technology is key to a number of new coating-based projects for the renewable energy and aerospace industries. Over £3.5 million of combined UK and EU funding is being used by Opus Materials Technologies to develop a portfolio of market-ready coatings for use in three projects over the next two years.
27-11-2017
The last decade has seen huge growth in the links forged between TWI Ltd and industry in China. With a new technology office opening in Beijing and the number of TWI Industrial Members in the country going from just 1 to 30 over the last ten years, good progress is being made as the organisation develops a best-practice approach for the benefit and support of industrial companies in the Far...
24-11-2017
TWI Ltd was one of 16 prize sponsors at Sheffield Hallam University’s Department of Engineering and Mathematics prizegiving ceremony. The ceremony took place last Monday (13 November 2017), with TWI sponsoring a Welding and Joining Project engineering prize.
21-11-2017
Hubert McPhillips, Chairman of The Welding Institute South Western branch, attended a launch party for the opening of a new engineering centre at the mid Devon campus of Petroc Further and Higher Education College.
21-11-2017
TWI’s Cambridge headquarters hosted a visit from a delegation from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), with a view to demonstrating its industrial support in mechanical engineering. The visit points to closer collaboration between the two organisations with opportunities for sharing and publishing technical knowledge of interest to their members.
17-11-2017
TWI’s Electron Beam (EB) welding and processing facilities have developed in line with industry needs, with newer equipment and additional capabilities now available to further support its Industrial Member base. The cross section of equipment better reflects industrial needs with modern versatile high and low power machines in the Cambridge engineering hall.
15-11-2017
The increased design freedom and potential to reduce manufacturing time has made additive manufacturing (AM) technology an area of great interest to industry. However, there is relatively little data about the properties and potential service performance of AM materials.
10-11-2017
TWI recently welcomed John Stephenson from new TWI Industrial Member company Integrity NDT to its Cambridge laboratories. Integrity NDT is a Turkish NDT/ inspection company operating primarily across the petrochemical and energy sectors.
09-11-2017
The Welding Institute’s Liverpool branch has undergone a name change to become the Merseyside Branch. Although known as the Liverpool Branch for several years, the change of name comes as a new committee is formed to support members of the Institute based in the local and surrounding area.
08-11-2017
TWI has joined forces with the Materials Processing Institute in Redcar, the University of Leicester’s Materials Engineering Group and Chinese partner Nanjing Iron and Steel Company (NICSCO) to develop new materials and processes for the production of extra thick and higher strength ‘SUPERSLAB’ steels.
08-11-2017
Steve Clarke, Head of Inward Investment from the GCGP Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) regional initiative, visited TWI, Cambridge, where he met with one of TWI Innovation Network’s innovation accelerators, Floteks.
07-11-2017
National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) 100th PhD student Dimitris Fakis officially started on Thursday 26 October 2017. This is an important milestone within NSIRC, since its founding in the summer of 2012.
07-11-2017
TWI employees were instrumental in the creation of a new literature review of Linear Friction Welding, which has been published in the Progress in Materials Science journal.
06-11-2017
This week, 6-10 November, is Tomorrow’s Engineers Week – an initiative to engage young people to promote careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths). By building links between industry and schools, the aim is to close the skills gap in engineering and demonstrate how what young people learn at school is used in the real world.
06-11-2017
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