This site uses Cookies - please see our privacy page for further information.

Join TFI Network+ Membership form →

TFIN+ Final Christmas Conference

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 […]

Read more

Published: November 12th, 2024
Posted in Events


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 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 […]

Read more

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


Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce Impact Report

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce (FPYW) was a 6-month project delivered under the umbrella of Transforming Founding Industries Network + in June-December 2023. FPYW was delivered by a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in the arts and humanities, design and creative practice: Prof. Rachel Van Duyvenbode (University of Sheffield) and colleagues from London College […]

Read more

Published: April 25th, 2024
Posted in Resources, 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 funding recipients and the TFIN+ Management Committee. The brochure is available for download from here

Read more

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 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 […]

Read more

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 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 […]

Read more

Published: March 18th, 2024
Posted in Events


ECR Net Zero Conference Presentations

You can now access the slide packs from last week’s amazing ECR Net Zero Conference on the conference website. https://lnkd.in/emzMuyt5 A marvellous collaboration between C-DICE, CO₂RE – The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, EDI+, Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), ERA, HI-ACT, UK-HyRES: Hub for Research Challenges in Hydrogen and Alternative Liquid Fuels, Industrial Decarbonisation Research and […]

Read more

Published: March 11th, 2024
Posted in TFI Network+ News


Prof. Paolo Colombo: Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics, slides available

As part of our ‘Blue Skies, Greener Future’ seminar series, in this talk Prof. Colombo discussed the different fabrication methods that have been developed for the production of ceramic components using AM, for use in a variety of engineering applications. The webinar discussed a variety of techniques that can be applied to ceramic AM, as […]

Read more

Published: March 1st, 2024
Posted in TFI Network+ News


ECR Net Zero Conference 2024

TFIN+ is now partnering with ECR Net Zero conference 2024 which is being held in Birmingham on 27 & 28th February. The aim of the conference is to foster a collaborative, multidisciplinary community by giving important research organisations and early career researchers (ECRs) a chance to network with colleagues from various research communities within the larger […]

Read more

Published: January 29th, 2024
Posted in Events


29th February- Blue Skies, Greener Future: Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics, by Prof. Paolo Colombo

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a technology which has the potential not only to change the way of conventional industrial manufacturing processes, adding material instead of subtracting, but also to create entirely new production and business strategies. Currently, it is possible to manufacture ceramic components with a very wide range of compositions in a size ranging […]

Read more

Published: January 24th, 2024
Posted in TFI Network+ News


TFI Network+ is committed to supporting, embedding and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion across the network.

In partnership with

Logo of the University of Leeds - TFI Network+ partner.
Logo of the University of Manchester - TFI Network+ partner.
Logo of the Swansea University - TFI Network+ partner.
Logo of the University of Sheffield - TFI Network+ partner.