Innovation Avenue leads way

Manufacturing companies in the North-West are being offered access to state-of-the-art research and development facilities following the launch of an £8million advanced metrology research centre via The Oldham Gateway.

University Campus Oldham is to host Innovation Avenue, showcasing the scale of engagement by companies already working with the facility, on Wednesday, January 25, at 5.15 for 6pm.

The evening will comprise short presentations by researchers as well as client companies.

University Campus Oldham, in Cromwell Street, will act as a gateway for firms in the Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside areas interested in developing links with the research centre.

Funded and supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the new Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology is the only research facility of its kind in the North of England and is based at the University Campus Oldham’s sister campus in Huddersfield.

The centre focuses on research which harnesses the potential of advanced metrology instrumentation which will allow machining accuracy at atomic levels of one nanometre.

Companies interested in attending should email s.k.lipthorpe@hud.ac.uk or call Susan Lipthorpe on 01484-472 049.