Industry news

Including effect of hold time on resistance spot weldability of aluminium to steel, friction stir alloying of AZ61 and mild steel with Al-CNT additive, and contamination suppression of coupling glass during vacuum laser welding.

UK Research and Innovation gives £1.2mln to tackle plastic packaging waste in India, Chile, South Africa and Kenya.

Initial focus to reduce reliance on critical materials and enable recycling of lithium-ion batteries.

Announcement follows successful 2021 UK trial.

The monthly index points to further price falls in the future.

Including free spark plasma sintering for textured ceramics, electroplating under perpendicular magnetic fields, and adiabatic shear behaviour of AZ31 alloy with different grain sizes.

Considering graphene for enhanced gas barrier properties, anti-corrosive properties of rubber coatings, and chitosan-reinforced nitrile rubber.

Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, UK, will open to the public from Saturday 10 September after a £28 million, eight-year restoration.

Network will incorporate 37 universities across both countries.

Collaboration aims to reduce ocean plastic pollution in Indonesia.

New funding award focuses on sustainable materials innovation.

Firm announce successful run of its Ambient Noise Tomography tech.

New projects plan to transform the sustainability of supply chains for domestic companies.

Shelling has damaged the Zaporizhzya Nuclear Power’s external power supply system and triggered the emergency protection system of one of the plant’s three operating reactors.

Alkemy Capital Investments plc will build a lithium sulphate plant at Port Hedland, Australia’s largest export port located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Made Smarter survey reveals need for manufacturers to digitalise to survive, recover and grow.

Discover Materials, the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) outreach group made up of ten UK universities and the Henry Royce Institute (Royce), have announced the launch of their new UK Space Agency (UKSA)-funded project ‘Let’s Move to the Moon!’ which will bring spacecraft engineering and out-of-this world materials science activities into classrooms across the UK.

Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group (MICG) is launching a four-year research programme involving both industry and academia, at the Ceramics UK expo, held at the NEC in Birmingham.

A £450,000 project will explore whether water from disused mines has the potential to play a vital role in supplying Wales’ energy needs for years to come.

Papers in the issue include mapping the cost of atmospheric corrosion of zinc and galvanised steel, effects of silty sand and pH on the formation of corrosion film and carbide precipitates as hydrogen traps.