Project Partners

Brunel Innovation Center (BIC) is part of the Institute of Materials and Manufacturing of Brunel University.

The principal mission of BIC is to establish a world class research centre offering high quality research in an innovative environment. Their aim to attract outstanding students and focus on acoustic wave and allied technologies covering a range of materials, sensors, electronics and software systems.

BIC operates with the aim of developing a financially sustainable research facility, drawing on Brunel University’s existing strengths, to complement and underpin the applied research and development activities of TWI.

Carrs Welding Technologies started in business repairing and refurbishing mould tools in 1992; in the late 90’s we started investing heavily in laser welding equipment and most people in the industry consider us to be at the very cutting edge of the technology.

As a result our business has expanded and diversified considerably, but we still carry out a multitude of tool repairs every week for our valued mould customers on three of our laser stations dedicated to breakdowns and jobs requiring rapid turnaround on an immense variety of sometimes exotic metal components.

The world’s foremost laser welding system makers, Rofin, Trumpf and Alpha are our chosen equipment suppliers and we have twelve systems installed for welding all nature of jobs, small, medium and large. Our highly skilled workforce undergoes rigorous training before embarking on production work and benefits from regular refresher courses on our constantly updated systems.

HORIBA MIRA help manufacturers to maximise the performance of their EV and hybrid vehicles and reduce development costs through advanced engineering, simulation tools and test facilities.

Founded in 1946, today HORIBA MIRA is a thriving automotive technology hub, optimising, integrating and verifying our customers’ technology into their target application vehicles.