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