Our strategy
Royce at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ identifies challenges and accelerates innovation in advanced metals processing to support the sustainable growth and development of UK metal industries.
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Our vision
Key objectives
- To deliver a step-change in the discovery and creation of innovative advanced material systems.
- To develop contemporary materials processing strategies to ensure component construction is precise and efficient.
- To reform alloy compositions with the ambition of improving performance, manufacturability, and reducing cost.
- To maximise design properties and minimise waste in production.
- To increase the recyclability of materials, and minimise the whole-life-cycle carbon footprint.
- To utilise agile and lean manufacturing through near net shape demonstrator components tailored to unique customer requirements.
Our mission
Royce at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ supports world-leading academics and engineers in materials research, accelerating metals discovery, processing, characterisation, upscaling, and manufacturing to deliver a digitally integrated, sustainable, and resource-efficient future for UK manufacturers:
- Enabling national materials research foresighting, collaboration, and strategy.
- Providing access to the latest facilities and capability.
- Catalysing industrial collaboration and exploitation of materials research.
- Fostering materials science skills development, innovation training, and outreach.
