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Composites are well known for being lightweight and strong, but the emerging era of circularity and ongoing efforts to embed sustainable practices on manufacturing lines is bringing the ubiquitous material into the digital era.
Submitting... 2020 - Abdul Haque, technical lead in metal additive manufacturing at the AMRC, inspects a lightweight fuel tank for small scale satelilites, designed and developed at the AMRC as part of the MiniTANKS project 2005 - Machining time on titanium landing gear bolts on the Airbus A380 was cut from 145 hours to 19 hours by the AMRC. 2008-2012 - A vast expansion of the AMRC campus saw the opening of the Factory of the Future (2008), an open-plan workshop focused on machining research. Two years later the Queen launched building work on the Nuclear AMRC. In 2011, the AMRC Knowledge Tra...