Trade association Composites UK (Hemel Hempstead, Herts / UK; www.compositesuk.co.uk) said two new members have joined its board of directors: Chris Taylor of Axon Automotive (Wollaston / UK; www.axonautomotive.com) and Scott Tolson of Sigmatex (Runcorn / UK; www.sigmatex.com). They replace Neil Appleton of Water Environmental Treatment (Claymore / UK; www.wet-services.com) and Mike Hitchen of Coats (Uxbridge / UK; www.coats.com) who have retired from the board.Composites UK is the accredited trade association for the UK composites industry. It has been tasked with bringing companies throughout the supply chain together and serving as a unified voice for the industry. It currently has more than 250 member companies.
Release Date: 06/06/2016
About Hemel Hempstead:
Composites UK is the trade association for the UK composites industry.
The association acts to encourage continuous growth and development of the industry, promoting the best-practice use of composites materials. Its role is to bring companies throughout the supply chain together creating partnerships, as-well-as creating a unified voice to drive the industry forward, benefiting all of those involved.
Composites UK encourages members to be active – to get involved, ask questions, help others – and does so through offering members the following.
What projects are Composites UK involved with?
Composites UK is involved in a number of ongoing projects.
Composites Innovation Cluster
The Composites Innovation Cluster (CiC), funded by the Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI), will deliver 15 integrated capability projects over a three year period across 28 partners. The CiC is led by Cytec Industrial Materials, partnered by Axillium Research and Composites UK, with support from strategic partner The National Composites Centre in response to the demand signals of all UK industry sectors. The aim of the CiC is to deliver a holistic supply-chain model, which will extend throughout the composites community, creating synergies and sustain collaborative relationships throughout the supply chain.
The CiC will:
- Create over 200 Jobs and £190m of business growth over 3 years from 2013 to 2016
- Create a Training Curriculum for the Composites Sector
- Create wider adoption of Composites in UK markets
- Build an Intelligent, Sustainable, Competitive and highly networked UK Composites supply base
- Develop a long term, self-supporting, UK supply chain capability that is successful and sustainable beyond AMSCI funding.
For more information visit www.the-cic.org.uk
