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Warwick to benefit from £2.5 million funding into “phenomenal” metamaterials

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:35:00 GMT

A £2.5m grant will enable a new network driving research into metamaterials, headed up by a researcher from the University of Warwick.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street meets local entrepreneurs at the NatWest Clean Transport Accelerator

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:00:00 GMT

West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, today (23 January 2024) visited entrepreneurs who have taken part in the NatWest Clean Transport Accelerator at The University of Warwick to hear how the expertise it provided has helped them to grow their businesses.

UK closer to net-zero steel thanks to new WMG and Tata Steel partnership

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 08:09:00 GMT

More sustainable, low-carbon steel and electric vehicle batteries are the target of a new two-year technology development programme between WMG at the University of Warwick and Tata Steel, as part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.

UK aims to be the first Country in the world to circulate steel and aluminium fully, supported by the CircularMetal programme

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:43:43 GMT

The metal industry in the UK employs 230,000 people, and directly contributes to £10.7bn to the UK GDP. A truly interdisciplinary academic team will research how to make a sustainable circular economy for high-volume metals, with WMG at the University of Warwick focussed on steel.

New 10-year project aims to decarbonise industry and manufacturing in the Black Country

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:12:50 GMT

WMG at the University of Warwick and Loughborough’s School of Business and Economics will be working with West Midlands Mayor Andy Street on a new project aimed at reducing the amount of industrial CO2 in the Black Country.

Mayor opens Ramfoam’s new headquarters as company embraces digital thanks to WMG, University of Warwick

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:00:26 GMT

One of the first companies to sign up to the MadeSmarter programme to improve the digital capabilities of smaller businesses has officially opened its new company headquarters and factory in Sandwell, thanks to the help they received from WMG at the University of Warwick.

Additive manufacturing supply chains to be protected from cyber-attacks in light of COVID-19

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:39:00 GMT

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted just how vulnerable UK manufacturing supply chains are, as there was an increase in the volume of cyber-enabled attacks on cyber-physical systems. There is therefore an urgent need to develop technologies and methods to support disruption-resilient manufacturing.

Identifying banknote fingerprints can stop counterfeits on streets

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:06:08 GMT

Since the introduction of plastic (polymer) banknotes in 2016, the number of counterfeit notes on the streets has increased, however, researchers from Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick have developed a novel technique called Polymer Substrate Fingerprinting, which identifies every banknote’s fingerprint which is unique and unclonable.

Solid-state batteries could be made more cleanly by scaling-up flash sintering

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:40:44 GMT

Densifying ceramics using flash sintering reduces energy use and may be used to improve the viability of manufacturing complex ceramic structures such as those required for solid state batteries by lowering the temperatures and shortening the duration of the heat treatment.

Restarting the Aluminium industry in the Black Country

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:52:00 GMT

The Black Country in Birmingham was the energy and innovation stomping ground in the 18th and 19th century, creating the UK’s industrial economy. Fast forward to the 21st century there is now a need to make a business model that’s more economically and environmentally sustainable. With the help of WMG, University of Warwick, the Black Country LEP have made a future business model for Aluminium in the Black Country based on the provision of low carbon energy sources, as part of a project Repowering the Black Country, which aims to make the Black Country the world’s first zero carbon industrial cluster.