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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne visits the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry.
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very small droplets the physics start falling to pieces, which means drops cannot be placed accurately or break up into smaller drops.
“What we were able to do was to put effectively a large drop over the area that we treated and then it would selectively flow according to its surface tension.” Pera has done a lot of 3D design and rapid prototyping in the past to test
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new products including steering wheels for Formula 1 cars. Every day, there is a new material that can be used for additive manufacturing and there is a trend from mass production towards rapid customisation. This means the ability to rapidly reconfigure a base product according to customer specifications without making the product cost itself too prohibitive. Pera has observed this trend in the market from consumer
Aerospace drives growth of additive manufacturing
he UK is currently number one for the aerospace industry in Europe and second only to the United States globally. Now the UK Government has invested in a national centre for additive manufacturing ass part of the £2 billion of joint government and industry funding for the Aerospace Technology Institutes. It will make sure the UK has the manufacturing capability
needed to meet a growing global market which already generates £24 billion a year for the UK economy. The government will provide £30 million in funding, which will be matched by industry. This is one of the government’s ‘High Value Manufacturing Catapult’ centres which promote high end manufacturing in the UK. The aerospace facility will allow companies to develop
new materials such as lightweight carbon fibre for use in planes, jet engines and civil helicopters that will be exported around the world.
Aerospace is just one of the areas of ‘high value manufacturing’ that the government and industry are supporting through the HVM Catapult. Other high-value manufacturing includes the development of new efficient vehicles and electronics. ●
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