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Dr. Tom Flint : Computational metallurgy in solid, liquid and plasma states; Recent developments and Implementations

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 […]

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Published: July 18th, 2024
Posted in News, TFI Network+ News


Second edition of the TFIN+ Brochure is available

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 […]

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Published: April 25th, 2024
Posted in News, Resources, TFI Network+ News


Foundation Industry Sustainability Consortium Strategy Workshop

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 […]

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Published: March 27th, 2024
Posted in Events


19th April – Blue Skies Greener Future, A global renaissance of metallurgy: Birth of metallurgy 2.0

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 […]

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Published: March 18th, 2024
Posted in Events


Resource efficiency and energy efficiency (REEE) in the Portuguese ceramic industry: Towards net zero carbon production

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 […]

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Published: June 26th, 2023
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Overcoming silos in the ceramics industry

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 […]

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Published: May 19th, 2023
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TFI Network+ awards funding to 5 research projects to enable transformation in the Foundation Industries 

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) […]

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Published: February 7th, 2023
Posted in News, TFI Network+ News


2022 in perspective

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 […]

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Published: February 3rd, 2023
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Sustainability in the Portuguese Ceramics Industry

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 […]

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Published: December 7th, 2022
Posted in News, TFI Network+ News, Uncategorised


The Adam Neville PhD Prize 2022 and Neville Centre of Excellence Symposium 2022

Applications are open for the Adam Neville Prize, a £2,000 award open to all final year students and those who have completed their viva within three months of the competition […]

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Published: November 4th, 2022
Posted in News


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