COMPOSITES ENGINEERING FORUM
The rise of composite materials continues across an ever-increasing number of applications. The advances provided by composite materials within automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, construction and oil and gas, to name just a few, are revolutionising businesses and benefiting millions of people. With the industry showing no signs of slowing down, the Composites Engineering show has already established itself as one of the world’s most important composite raw material, design, processing and applications events.
View the speakers and CPD accredited agenda from 2022 below…
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YES Project Presentation – Design and Make Competition Winner 2022
YES Project Presentation – Design and Make Competition Winner 2022
Inter-ply Friction in Dry Composite Preforming – Student Presentation Competition
Inter-ply Friction in Dry Composite Preforming – Student Presentation Competition
YES Project Presentation – Design and Make Competition Winner 2021
YES Project Presentation – Design and Make Competition Winner 2021
Rapid Tow Shearing – composites automation for the lightest cars, planes and spacecraft possible
Rapid Tow Shearing – composites automation for the lightest cars, planes and spacecraft possible
Day 1
Digitalisation - What Does It Mean For Composites?
Composites Engineering Forum
10:00-11:00
Demystifying Digital for Composites – Marc Funnell, Director of DETI (Digital Engineering, Technology and Innovation), NCC
Making digital matter – how Airborne apply digitalisation for practical benefit – Joe Summers, MD, Airborne UK
Digital optimisation of Production – Nigel Clifford Lloyd-Jones, MD, iSpecc Ltd.
Q & A Session
Innovation in Materials
Composites Engineering Forum
11:00 - 12:00
Reducing emissions through UK grown bio-fibres – Ben Andrews, Business Development Manager, Sustainable and Emerging Technologies, SHD Composites
Sustainability in the Composites Supply Chain- Olli Piiroinen, Technology Manager, INEOS Composites
Q & A Session
Keynote session: The Future of the UK composite sector
Composites Engineering Forum
12:00 - 13:00
Strategic Direction for the UK Composites Sector – Craig Carr, CLF Chair, Technology Director Integrated Composite Structures, CLF/GKN Aerospace
The UK Composites Sector in Numbers – David Bailey, CEO, Composites UK
The Technology Opportunity – Enrique Garcia, Chief Technology Officer, NCC
The Workforce Challenge – Matt Bradney, Chair of Composites UK Workforce Development Group, Prodrive Composites Ltd
Circularity
Composites Engineering Forum
13:00 - 14:00
Enabling Zero Waste from Composites – Jen Hill, Director, B & M Longworth
Reducing the environmental footprint of lightweight materials for automotive applications – Frazer Barnes, MD, Gen2Carbon
Sustainability of the recycled hydrogen tank – Jack Alcock, NCC
Wind sector circularity challenges – James Lightfoot, NCC
David Bailey, CEO, Composites UK
Composites Innovation Awards
Composites Engineering Forum
14:00 - 15:00
Presentations TBC
Green Transport
Composites Engineering Forum
15:00 - 16:00
The UK Hydrogen Transport Market – Jim Gregory & Kevin Gilbert, Luxfer Gas Cylinders
Solving the Problem of EMI Shielding & Fire Protection in Composite Battery Enclosures Using Advanced Nonwovens – Neil Gray, Business Development Manager, Technical Fibre Products
Battery Enclosures – why composites make sense – Paul Gallen, Sales Director Automotive, Hankuk Composite UK Ltd
Challenges in Realising Composite Liquid Hydrogen Cryogenic Storage: A Materials and Standards Perspective – Stefanos Giannis, Principal Research Scientist, NPL
Q & A Session
Day 2
Automation In Composites Manufacturing
Composites Engineering Forum
10:00 - 11:00
Automation of composites production – how to drive efficiency and competitiveness with a press process – Alexander Wiesner, Head of Sales, Langzauner GmbH
Philippa Glover, MD, CNC Robotics
Innovative Composite Applications for Machine Tool and Automation Performance – Humphrey Carter, Head of Business Development, CompoTech
Q & A Session
Net-Zero/Circularity
Composites Engineering Forum
11:00 - 12:00
UK Automotive Materials Strategy for a Net-Zero Circular Economy – Alan Banks, Lightweighting Innovations Manager, Ford Motor Company
Jahan Ali, Head of Research and Technology and Head of Aerospace Innovation Centre, Spirit Aerosystems
Sustainable Material Development – Paul Spencer, Head of Materials: Technology and Innovation, Gurit
Innovation in composites manufacturing
Composites Engineering Forum
13:00 - 14:00
Intelligent Resin Infusion System – Tackling large scale Vacuum Bag Only Resin Infusion processing challenges – Zacharias Kakaratsios, Technical Fellow – Composite Processing R&T, Spirit Aerosystems
Stochastic Optimization Methodologies for Robust, Sustainable Designs – André Wilmes, CEO, Rafinex
Enrique Garcia, Chief Technology Officer, NCC, Chair CLF Technology WG
Don't miss out!
The UK’s leading annual gathering of OEM’s and engineering supply chain professionals.
4 & 5 November 2020 at NEC Birmingham.
