Innovation Hub focus of manufacturing shows
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The National Graphene Institute, which will show its latest developments in the Innovation Hub, has developed a graphene lightbulb with lower energy emissions, longer lifetime and lower manufacturing costs.
Courtesy The University of Manchester.
The Innovation Hub will inspire, excite and inform Britain’s design engineers, manufacturing engineers and business leaders in their goal of creating world-leading products.
The Hub will be at the heart of the Engineer Design & Innovation Show and give visitors the chance to engage with some of the UK’s most successful innovators and learn from them how to embed innovation in their own businesses.
The Engineer Design & Innovation, Subcon and Advanced Manufacturing Shows take place from 2 to 4 June at the NEC, Birmingham. Access to the Innovation Hub is complimentary for attendees at all three shows.
The Innovation Hub will bring together some of the UK’s most impressive companies.
Visitors to the Hub can get up close to the BLOODHOUND SSC wheels which are set to be the fastest in history – rotating at 10,500 rpm when the car is travelling at 1,000 mph. The wheels have been designed for high speed runs on the Hakskeen Pan, South Africa and will be forged from solid aluminium.
The Proving Factory is a unique business that aims to take the risk out of industrialising and manufacturing advanced propulsion technologies – it will show how it takes innovative technologies, and develops them for production to the quality and volumes needed by OEMs to get these products into mainstream use.
Reaction Engines is developing the technologies needed for an advanced combined cycle air-breathing rocket engine class called SABRE that will enable aircraft to operate easily at speeds of up to five times the speed of sound or fly directly into Earth orbit. To enable this it has developed ultra-lightweight heat exchangers 100 times lighter than existing technologies that can cool airstreams from over 1,000 °C to minus 150 °C in less than 1/100th of a second.
The National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester is the world’s leading centre of research and commercialisation into graphene, the thinnest, strongest and most conductive material known to man. They will reveal the latest prototype applications set to revolutionise the materials world developed at The University of Manchester, the home of graphene.
Grant Burgham, Business Development and Portfolio Director at show organiser Centaur Live, said: “I think that this is a really exciting addition to our shows. Together the exhibitors in the Innovation Hub will give a snapshot of the amazing things are being done now, and the even more amazing things we can hope to see in the near future.”
