The University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is a globally-recognised centre of excellence in innovating manufacturing technologies, engineering research and development, and metal forming and forging research.

For over a decade the centre has been at the heart of manufacturing research in Scotland. It is the only High Value Manufacturing Catapult centre in the country, one of only 7 in the UK making it the critical link between manufacturers in Scotland and the...

The High Value Manufacturing Catapult is the go-to place for manufacturing technology innovation in the UK. Our seven centres, listed below, work across 17 locations covering all parts of country to support manufacturers in over 4,000 projects per year, offering open access to the latest industrial scale equipment, leading expertise and an environment of collaboration between industry, academia and government. We cover the full range of manufacturing technology capabilities, from biologics to...

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is a group of industry-led manufacturing research and development facilities transforming skills, productivity and innovation in Scotland helping to make the country a global leader in advanced manufacturing.  

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland in Renfrewshire. It is operated by the University of Strathclyde and supported by Scottish Government, Scottish...

The Airborne Geosciences Facility was established to support environmental & geoscientific research and teaching through the development, integration and operation of advanced airborne sensing technologies deployed on both manned and unmanned aircraft. We operate our own ECO-Dimona light aircraft alongside a fleet of small unmanned aircraft systems, and a suite of remote sensing and atmospheric instruments. Our stated goal is to provide the core capability to promote and develop an...

ARCHER is the UK National Supercomputing Service. It allows researchers to run calculations and simulations that require a large number of processing cores working in parallel. The computer demands for such simulations far exceed the computer power typically available to an institution like ours (e.g. a local cluster). ARCHER allows us to run ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere models that are at the cutting edge of the field. Generally, facilities like ARCHER enable the UK to be (and to remain)...

EPMA is a non-destructive technique yielding high-precision elemental composition data of materials at micro- and nanometre scales. This union of analytical precision and spatial resolution makes EPMA unique among microanalytical techniques. Its data contributes to a variety of disciplines critical to the UK research and industrial infrastructure. These include fields as diverse as photonics, earth science resources, nuclear engineering, and high strength, high-temperature materials development...

Cirrus is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 National HPC Facilities and is available for users in both academia and industry. Housed at EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility, Cirrus is a flexible, state-of-the-art High Performance Computing system that provides an ideal platform for users to solve their computational, simulation, modelling, and data science challenges. It consists of 280, 36-core compute nodes based on the Intel Xeon E5-2695 (Broadwell) series of processors with 256Gb of memory per node. In...

Fraunhofer CAP provides professional applied R&D services with/for industry. (i.e. working on direct cash contracts and also working on collaborative projects.) This is demand driven research combined with scientific excellence and postgraduate training. Fraunhofer CAP has expertise in a wide range of optics, lasers and laser systems, with dedicated laboratories and test and measurement facilities. This allows us to deliver R and D projects from short term feasibility, de-risking, through to...