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Faraday whips Vale into shape
Faraday Plastics helps Vale Brothers improve its range of equestrian products.
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 December 2005
Faraday Plastics boosted by new KTN structure
Faraday Plastics has succeeded in renewing its remit and budget as the UK's leading resource and coordinator for polymer-based research.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 November 2005
Faraday and Materials KTN make winning start
The first meeting of the operations board of the new grouping of materials-based UK Faraday organisations - the Knowledge Transfer Network - took place in London, UK, on 2nd November 2005.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 November 2005
Interplas visitors bemoan lack of investment
Faraday Plastics, the UK's leading resource and co-ordinator for polymer-based research, reports on a continuing need to resource research and development activities for the UK's plastics industries.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 October 2005
Polymer industry and academia need stronger link
Richard Simpson, Director of Faraday Plastics, has called for a revitalisation of UK academe/industrial relations in polymer science and technology.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 October 2005
Show to put innovative skills to the fore
Faraday Plastics is encouraging companies in the plastics and rubber sectors to give their research and development a shot in the arm and get to Innovate 2005.
News from Engineeringtalk, 15 August 2005
Plastics R and D holds the key
Faraday Plastics, will use Interplas 05 to promote the research and development agenda for companies, providing much needed tools, information and resources for visitors to the show.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 August 2005
UK polymer expertise on show
The best in polymer research and academic excellence will be on show at the second UK Polymer Showcase on 6th and 7th September 2005 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 August 2005
Conference is a "must" for UK plastics industry
The Faraday Plastics and Polymer Partnership is urging the UK plastics industry to attend this year's Polymer Processing Engineering conference, exhibition and process demonstrations.
News from Engineeringtalk, 22 June 2005
Technology roadmapping plans for the future
Faraday Plastics has started rolling out technology roadmapping (TRM) techniques and services for use by individual companies in the plastics and rubber sectors.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 March 2005
Meeting to explain new UK plastics legislation
A meeting of the thermoforming sector at Rapra Technology, Shawbury, on 23rd February 2005 will fully explain new health and safety legislation which is now enforceable law.
News from Engineeringtalk, 31 January 2005
Funding helps with plastics research
Over the past 12 months the Faraday Plastics and Polymers Partnership has helped to raise a total of some GBP 22 million in research funding for the plastics sector in the UK and Europe.
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 January 2005
Faraday finds funds for commercial research
The Faraday Plastics and Polymers Partnership has been enjoying recent successes in helping West Midlands-based companies secure research funding for their plastics and polymeric-based innovations.
News from Engineeringtalk, 29 October 2004
Lucite's Sellens takes Faraday chair
The Faraday Plastics and Polymer Partnership has appointed Rowena Sellens, Global Research Director of Lucite International, to succeed Professor Tony Ledwith as Chairman of the Faraday board.
News from Engineeringtalk, 14 October 2004
Polymeric R and D - the Faraday role
Polymeric-based research is alive and well in the UK, and the main strategic issues are to do with the "development" half of the traditional R and D equation.
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 August 2004
Faraday publishes round-up of plastics research
Faraday Plastics is publishing the first full-scale review of plastics-related research in the UK funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC).
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 March 2004
Seminars explain benefits of R and D tax credits
Together with Plastics West Midlands (PWM), Faraday Plastics is holding two further meetings on the tax credit opportunities available through company research and development activity.
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 March 2004
Plastics industry addresses machine safety
The UK plastics thermoforming sector met with representatives from the Health and Safety Executive at the end of last month in Thurrock, Essex, as part of a Faraday Plastics facilitated event.
News from Engineeringtalk, 25 February 2004
Affiliate schemes explained at Materials Congress
Faraday Plastics is to exhibit at the 2004 Materials Congress hosted by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining at Carlton House Terrace, London, from 30th March to 1st April.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 February 2004
Marr adds Scottish dimension to plastics team
Faraday Plastics has added a seventh member to its newly formed team of technology translators.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 February 2004
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