New NCC and CPI Partnership to Strengthen UK Materials Capability

NCC and CPI have entered a new formal partnership, committing the two High Value Manufacturing Catapult centers to jointly develop critical innovation capabilities for materials. Building on a long-standing strategic relationship, NCC and CPI will work together to strengthen innovation capabilities that are essential to the UK’s supply and manufacture of advanced products. The partnership formally aligns scale-up expertise and capability across the full materials lifecycle, from polymer and process chemistry at CPI, to materials manufacturing and product development at NCC. It will provide UK manufacturers with a more connected route from lab to production line, accelerating the development and adoption of critical new materials. NCC’s new Carbon Fibre Development Facility, opening later this year, will provide the UK with a unique fiber research and innovation capability. The facility will house two manufacturing development lines to enable industry to test, de-risk and scale new carbon fiber formulations and processing techniques. In parallel, CPI will establish two complementary development capabilities focused on optimising the building blocks of carbon fiber: the process chemistry and associated formulation of its key ingredients. These outputs will feed directly into NCC’s new facility. To identify growth opportunities in High Performance Carbon Fiber Precursor Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis to 2031, please visit https://www.lucintel.com/high-performance-carbon-fiber-precursor-market.aspx