Unlocking cutting edge research to deliver industrial impact
NCC helps businesses of all sizes bridge the gap between cutting-edge innovation and industrial application, turning ideas into impact across the entire product life cycle. As a not-for-profit, we act as an extension of our customers’ capabilities, providing access to world-class expertise, advanced facilities and collaborative opportunities.
Technology clusters
NCC innovates through technology clusters – discrete elements of material, product or process development or integrated into system-level challenges
Additive manufacturing
Automation and robotics
Castings
Composite manufacturing
Design and prototyping
Digital manufacturing
Manufacturing intelligence
Subtractive manufacturing
Related case studies
- With funding from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership, the NCC worked with Cedeco to develop an early-stage concept for a composite gripper, which would hold an offshore wind turbine leg in place without so much need for environmentally invasive reinforcement.
- On the 16th of March 2020, the Government asked UK industry to support the NHS in its fight against COVID-19. The VentilatorChallengeUK (VCUK) Consortium, led by the HVM Catapult’s outgoing CEO Dick Elsy and made up of more than 33 businesses from the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors, came together at speed to build medical ventilators.
- When thought leaders are brought together, incredible things can happen. This is why we partner with the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing to convene the single largest group of leading academics, researchers and industry representatives each year.
- Every researcher has their own unique knowledge set, bringing with them ideas and approaches that could benefit the UK. That is why collaboration and co-creation remains at the heart of the Catapult Network’s activity.
- Quantum key distribution (QKD) has been identified as one of the solutions to maintaining this security, using principles from quantum mechanics to keep data encrypted and reliably detect eavesdropping attempts.
- At the moment, however, 85% of composites are neither reused nor recycled at the end of their life. Instead, the materials end up in landfill, adding to the world’s growing refuse problem.
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