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NAA Project News: SPLICE project to develop polymer springs to help accelerate vehicle lightweighting
Researchers at WMG, part of the University of Warwick, together with Force Technology and the Northern Automotive Alliance (NAA), have won research funding worth £244,090 from Innovate UK for a project that will develop polymer springs for vehicles in order to reduce vehicle weight, so improving fuel efficiency and lowering emissions… The project, led by […]
NAA Project News: STRIVE Project is a Winner at the 2016 North West Business Insider ‘Made in the North West’ Awards
The STRIVE project, for which the Northern Automotive Alliance (NAA) is the project lead, has brought home the ‘Education in Business’ Award from the 2016 North West Business Insider ‘Made in the North West’ Awards… Announced at the Awards evening at the Bolton Whites Hotel on the 5th May, the Award recognised the benefits gained […]
Industry news: Automotive Industrial Partnership update
The UK automotive industry is thriving. 2015 was the best year in a decade for car production with 1.59 million vehicles produced and volumes are forecast to reach an all-time record of 2 million by 2020. Ensuring the industry’s workforce can keep pace with this rapid growth and innovation has been a key objective of […]
NAA Event Review: Celebrating 50 years at Mini Gears
Every NAA factory tour and networking meeting is unique and fascinating for its own reasons, but the recent visit to Mini Gears was all the more memorable due to the family-owned business having its 50th Birthday party on the same day as our event… Mini Gears Chairman Paul Darwent welcomed the NAA contingent to the […]
NAA Event Review: Unique behind-the-scenes tour of Vodafone Automotive’s Secure Operating Centre
During the last month NAA members have visited Mini Gears, which was a highly enjoyable visit, but for something very different we’ve also been fortunate to have a unique behind-the-scenes tour of the Vodafone Automotive Secure Operating Centre (SOC) in Burnley, where visitors found out about the company’s activities in the area of the prevention […]
SMMT International Events 2016/17
EVS29, Montreal – Electric vehicle technology 19 – 21 June Automechanika Frankfurt 13 – 17 September – see more details below Intelligent Transport Systems Congress, Melbourne 10 – 14 October Automechanika Shanghai 30 Nov – 3 Dec SIAT 2017 – Pune, India – Smart mobility 18 – 21 Jan 2017 ACMA Automechanika New Delhi – […]
One every 16 seconds: British car manufacturing grows again in March, marking best Q1 since 2004
UK CAR MANUFACTURING (data for March and Q1 2016) ▪ UK car production grows 9.8% in March, with 159,074 cars built – one every 16 seconds. ▪ 443,581 cars made in the first quarter, rising 10.3% as productivity reaches record levels. ▪ Q1 demand up at home and abroad, with domestic output up 8% and […]
Alstom Grand Challenge for SMEs
Would you like to diversify into the Rail sector? Alstom has launched a Rail Challenge for SMEs with the aim of: Generating and developing new innovations for the UK’s rail industry To help an SME develop the winning idea up to a Proof of Concept or Prototype level – £50,000 is available For more information […]
Assessment on the adoption of digital technologies by the European Industry
PwC Luxembourg has been mandated by the European Commission to develop the Digital Entrepreneurship Scoreboard, which aims to provide an assessment of the current status in digital transformation of enterprises and digital entrepreneurship in Europe. Within this frame, the Scoreboard intends to capture the most recent uptake of digital technologies and frame them into supportive […]
NAA Update: Welcome to one of our biggest newsletters ever, and also to many new members from the North West and from Yorkshire & Humber
Welcome to the April newsletter, which shows that there is a LOT of automotive activity, growth and good news in our region (please take the time to scan down this edition!), and a warm welcome to our new members since our last newsletter: GEFCO, KDAB (UK) Ltd, K&M Precision Engineering, MES (NW) Ltd, all from […]
