Date: 22 Jun 2009
A new research centre for the UK's aerospace, energy, marine and automobile industries is to be opened near Glasgow Airport.
The £25 million Advanced Forming Research Centre will develop forming and forging technologies to support the design and manufacture of new products, including components and structures for aircraft wings and body parts, engines, cars, ships, medical devices, power generation and wind turbines.
The Centre - the first in its kind in the UK - is a collaborative venture between Strathclyde Univeristy, Scottish Enterprise and engineering firms including Boeing, Mettis Aerospace and Rolls Royce. It will make the UK's engineering sector even more competitve globally by delivering advanced products to the market place quicker and more cost effective.
A bespoke building at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire will open in early 2010 and will house cutting edge machinery, enabling the Univeristy's internationally renowned researchers to engineer new technologies on production scale equipment.