Part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult alliance of seven leading manufacturing research centres backed by Innovate UK, the Nuclear AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) has at its heart an open-plan 5,000m2 workshop containing over £35 million worth of ‘state of the art’ manufacturing equipment tailored for nuclear industry applications. Working with a range of ‘challenging metals’, including specialist steels and exotic alloys, its machine tools are ‘protected’ by Vericut CNC simulation and optimisation software from Hove-based CGTech Ltd. Located on the boundary of Sheffield and Rotherham — and sitting alongside other University of Sheffield centres including the AMRC, Castings Technology International and nearby AMRC Training Centre — the Nuclear AMRC operates from an 8,000m2 research factory where staff apply “innovative and optimised processes” in machining, welding, inspection and other key areas of large-scale manufacturing technology.
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