The Future Composites Manufacturing Hub is hosting a free launch event to introduce current projects and to explain how these fit within the research priority areas determined by the UK’s Composites Leadership Forum. This will provide you with the opportunity to meet leading academics and collaborating partners from the composites supply chain to discuss how your business can engage further and help meet the Hub's objectives. The event will include a number of technical presentations, a Q&A session and a poster exhibition from all of the academic partners, providing ample time to network and discuss your R&D requirements.

The programme for the day is as follows:

10.00 Registration & coffee

10.30 Welcome

10.40 Future Composites Manufacturing Hub overview - Andy Long (Nottingham)

11.00 Industry viewpoint on the Future Composites Manufacturing Hub - Peter Chivers (National Composites Centre)

11.20 Doctoral training for composites manufacturing - Ivana Partridge (Bristol)

11.40 Coffee and networking break

12.00 Technologies Framework for Automated Dry Fibre Placement (ADFP) - Kevin Potter (Bristol) / Tom Turner (Nottingham)

12.20 New Manufacturing Techniques for Optimised Fibre Architectures - Prasad Potluri (Manchester) / Andy Long (Nottingham)

12.40 Manufacturing Multifunctional Composites for Structural Applications - Paul Robinson (Imperial College) /Ivana Partridge (Bristol)

13.00 Lunch & exhibitions

14.00 Feasibility study - Manufacturing Thermoplastic Matrix Carbon Fibre Composite/metallic Framework Structures - Andrew Mills (Cranfield)

14.10 Feasibility study - Strain-based NDE for Online Inspection and Prognostics of Structures with Manufacturing Defects - Janice Barton (Southampton)

14.20 Q & A panel session with academic leads - Chaired by Andy Long

14.40 Coffee and networking break

15.00 Close