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The Technology Strategy Board, Welsh Government and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are to jointly invest up to £5.4 million in research and development and knowledge exchange projects to help stimulate innovation and develop UK supply chains between the power electronics and energy sectors.

The four-day event was held at the state-of-the-art Milton Keynes Dons Football Stadium, Milton Keynes, UK, and provided the ideal environment to host the largest Sonatest international sales meeting to date. Distributor partners attended from over 25 countries, together with representatives from industry and other institutions.

Two of the UK’s leading NDT equipment manufacturing companies have teamed up to produce what they claim is a superb corrosion mapping system that is stirring up enthusiasm across the globe. Technology Design and Silverwing UK manufacture equipment for the advanced ultrasonic market and have brought their respective skills together, the result of which is a marriage between the Rapid Motion Scanner (RMS) from Silverwing and the range of computerised ultrasonic acquisition systems from Technology Design.

Element Materials Technology has announced the signing of an outsourcing agreement with Firth Rixson, a global leading aerospace industry supplier of highly-engineered forged and speciality metal products.

Aberdeen-based Inspectahire has helped to protect a unique piece of Scottish heritage at one of the country’s most iconic battlefields.

The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £10 million in new research and development projects that stimulate innovation across the key enabling technology areas of advanced materials, biosciences, electronics, sensors and photonics, and information and communications technology.

QinetiQ is supporting the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in testing new composite materials for the UK submarine fleet using its recently re-commissioned and refitted Hyperbaric Trials Unit (HTU).

The British Institute of NDT (BINDT) is pleased to report that John Moody has joined its team in the role of Technical Support Engineer. John is very well qualified and has extensive relevant experience. He is also very widely known in the industry and, therefore, he needs little introduction. The role, however, is new and readers might be interested to know more about it.

Ashtead Technology has experienced a surge in demand for hired video borescopes from the aircraft sector and Branch Manager Alan Hasson believes this is happening for three reasons: “There is a growing demand for borescopes because they enable inspection without the cost and delay of dismantling engines. Secondly, instrumentation technology has advanced considerably recently and we are now able to supply video borescopes that are very light and easy to use, but which provide extremely high-quality images. Thirdly, we stock a wide range of the latest inspection equipment from leading manufacturers such as Olympus IMS and GE, so that clients can rent the most appropriate equipment for each job.”

ATH (NDT) Consultants made huge developments throughout a busy 2012 and these have seen the demand and growth of the business rocket, leading to the company recruiting two more full-time NDT employees to cope with its on-going and increasing workload.