This site uses Cookies - please see our privacy page for further information.
We would like to thank all the members of our network and attendees who made our Final Christmas Conference successful. In these four years we have managed to exceed our targets and create a community of practitioners who enthusiastically engaged with Foundation Industries, and provided expertise to develop solutions for common challenges. We particularly welcomed […]
Published: November 12th, 2024
Posted in
Events
As part of our ‘Blue Skies, Greener Future’ seminar series, Dr. Tom Flint from University of Manchester spoke about mathematical frameworks that describe materials in solid, fluid, and plasma states and their numerical implementation for deployment in high-performance computing. He presented on some of the applications, such as 3D printing of components used in the […]
Published: July 18th, 2024
Posted in
News, TFI Network+ News
The second edition of the TFIN+ brochure contains summaries of all the completed projects from Calls 1-5. The brochure also includes a list of recent publications authored by small project funding recipients and the TFIN+ Management Committee. The brochure is available for download from here
Published: April 25th, 2024
Posted in
News, Resources, TFI Network+ News
The event was an opportunity for the TFIN+ team to discuss some of the major issues facing the Foundation Industries, and to contribute ideas for new themes and collaboration opportunities that could be considered in the medium to longer term. The event included participation from Glass Futures, Materials Processing Institute, CPI, Lucideon, Henry Royce Institute, Innovate UK and FIVe – Foundation Industries Ventures Slides are available […]
Published: March 27th, 2024
Posted in
Events
As a part of Blue Skies Greener Future series our second speaker is Zhongyun Fan. He is a professor of metallurgy, the founder and Director of BCAST – Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University London. He is the principal investigator/director of the EPSRC funded LiME Research Hub, a national centre of excellence in liquid […]
Published: March 18th, 2024
Posted in
Events
The Portuguese ceramic industry constitutes 0.5% of Gross Domestic Product in Portugal, far higher than most other European nations, and thus it is essential this sector is decarbonised, cost-effectively to preserve jobs and national revenue. Moreover, the small size of the country and the co-location of ceramic factories dominantly in northern Portugal lowers the logistical barriers to […]
Published: June 26th, 2023
Posted in
News, TFI Network+ News
Professor Ian M Reaney FIMMM, Director of the Transforming Foundation Industries Network+, calls for greater synergy with universities to decarbonise the UK ceramics industry. Full article available on the IOM3 website
Published: May 19th, 2023
Posted in
News
UKRI-ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ awards over £200,000 to 5 research projects aimed at exploring enablers of transformation and social sciences in the Foundation Industries The Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Network+ has awarded funding to 5 research projects in its fifth round of flexible funding. This round was themed on ‘Enablers of Transformation’ with an […]
Published: February 7th, 2023
Posted in
News, TFI Network+ News
2022 was a very positive and successful year for the TFIN+. We achieved >600 members includingrepresentatives from academia (67%) and industry (33%), 303 followers on Twitter (>33,000 impressions) and 540 on LinkedIn (>23,000 impressions). We delivered workshops, conferences and networking within the community on topics such as energy efficiency, the circular economy or equality, diversity […]
Published: February 3rd, 2023
Posted in
News, TFI Network+ News
The Portuguese ceramic’s industry is composed of ~1000 companies principally concerned with construction and traditional ceramics and employs around 16,000 people. It constitutes 0.5% of GDP of Portugal (£230 billion p.a. with a population of ~10.5m), generates a turnover of ~1.2% of GDP and in 2017 was responsible for ~ 4% of the total and almost […]
Published: December 7th, 2022
Posted in
News, TFI Network+ News, Uncategorised
