Mr Huppert, an active voice for Cambridge’s world-leading business community, spent the morning with TWI Chief Executive Christoph Wiesner, touring the company’s laboratories and looking at examples of current project work for industry as well as demonstrations of new and existing technologies invented at TWI that have been licensed successfully across the globe.
TWI Chief Executive Christoph Wiesner said: “We were delighted to welcome Julian Huppert to TWI and to show him some examples of the research and development we have been carrying out in recent years.”
Julian Huppert commented: “It’s been fascinating to see so many different techniques in action here. I have been most impressed with the scale and diversity of the technical expertise and industry relevance of the work. TWI has been at the heart of technical innovation for many years – I am very pleased to see that it is showcasing its excellent achievements.”
For more information please contact catherine.condie@twi.co.uk
About TWI
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 several facilities across the globe, the company has a first class reputation for service through its teams of internationally respected consultants, scientists, engineers and support staff, whose knowledge and expertise is available to its Members as and when they require.
The company employs over 700 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, Granta Park, Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL. Tel: 01223 899000. Fax: 01223 892588.
E-mail: twi@twi.co.uk. Web: www.twi.co.uk
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