Research and Development

“Collaboration with one of Wales’ leading academic institutions has been beneficial in bringing green benefits to a £10 billion industry.”
Andrew Loyns, CEO Atraverda

If your business is looking to harness or develop forward looking technologies, collaborating with Wales’ Centres of Excellence for Technology and Industrial Collaboration offers a proven route to success. Wales is making a huge investment in this network which has set a new benchmark for industry-partnered automotive research.

• Swansea Institute of Higher Education (SIHE) offers vehicle styling design and automotive engineering expertise, and is planning a new Automotive Design Centre to provide full size clay modelling and structural design.
• The Wolfson Centre at Cardiff University has an international reputation for applied R&D within magnetics – a science that offers massive potential for improving engine efficiency.
• The Materials Centre of Excellence, based at Swansea University, provides key materials technologies to a host of industry sectors requiring specialist expertise - in areas that include high performance metallic alloys, engineering ceramics, polymers and composites.
• A number of research institutes within Wales offer specialist expertise within Non-destructive Testing, while the new NDT Validation Centre in Port Talbot is a new national research centre set to play a critical role in ensuring the future safety of materials and components used in performance engineering.
• At Cardiff University’s School of Engineering, the Centre for Research in Energy Waste and the Environment has gained an international reputation for research in energy, combustion and process management.
• The Centre for Advanced Software and Intelligent systems, Aberystwyth, works with automotive partners on failure mode effects analysis software for electrical systems.
• The National Centre for Product Development, Cardiff, manages projects from concept to rapid prototyping, and has created an in-cab display system for Trident. It has also recently invested in selective laser melting.
• A hydrogen fuel cell minibus is being developed by Glamorgan University - the only project of its kind in the UK and funded by the Energy Savings Trust.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. And through Team Wales and the generous funding support available, we can bring you together with the researchers and innovators who can take your technology base forwards.

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