Online gateway for ceramics launched

An online gateway has been launched for The AMRICC Centre, a new open-access facility, for businesses and academia in the national and international advanced ceramics sector.

The AMRICC Centre is based in Staffordshire and is the physical outcome from the Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group’s (MICG) £18.27mln five-year research programme, funded by Government.

The site, www.amricc.com, showcases The AMRICC Centre and outlines its capabilities, designed to accelerate innovation in the ceramics and advanced ceramics sectors.

The facility has more than 350 pieces of high-value technology and the personnel in place to support the trial of new products at commercial pilot scale, almost one year on from commencing operations.

The website gives viewers an inside view on operations of the Centre, including insight into its technical testing capabilities, extreme conditions equipment, modelling and machine learning, as well as its pilot-scale testing facilities. 

Under its remit to provide the 'go-to centre' for ceramics and advanced ceramics commercialisation, and give organisations opportunities to enter global markets, the facility’s open-access model is available through membership of The AMRICC Centre, or on a 'pay-as-you-go' basis.

It also explores The AMRICC Centre’s role in educating the next generation of highly skilled materials scientists. 

Overall financial sponsor Lucideon has invested over £4mln to support the centre, including £800,000 to back the initial bid.

Dr Cathryn Hickey, CEO of The AMRICC Centre, said: ‘As an open-access facility, The AMRICC Centre is able to provide a cutting-edge environment for organisations to trial new products at commercial pilot scale, helping to de-risk the use of new technologies much more quickly.

‘We needed a website that captures this unique offer comprehensively and sets out The AMRICC Centre as a centre of excellence for materials technologies on their path to commercialisation, particularly related to advanced ceramics processing.’