Materials Processing Institute receives £4.2mln investment
The package is part of a UKRI-funded initiative to scale up sustainable technologies across the Foundation Industries.
Terry Walsh, the new CEO of the Materials Processing Institute, says the investment wiil create a fully-equipped Cement and Concrete Research Centre.
The money will also be invested in artificial intelligence technologies and for instrumentation in alloy development, hot metal processing, furnace modelling and concrete/cement decarbonisation.