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HOME arrow Manufacturing arrow Cranfield and Chemring join forces arrow Registration
Cranfield and Chemring join forces
Written by Lautaro Vargas   
Wednesday, 02 April 2008
Cranfield and Chemring signing ceremony
Cranfield and Chemring signing ceremony
Cranfield University has struck a deal with specialist defence manufacturer, Chemring, to collaborate on leading edge research into advance technologies that will eventually form the basis for a range of new products and capabilities.

The five-year partnership is worth around £5 million to the Bedfordshire post-graduate university though further investment may come in from Chemring if the venture proves a hit.

The partnership will initially see around a dozen or so engineers from each organisation work together in areas of chemistry, materials science, shock physics and ordnance system engineering to tackle some of the challenges that confront this technology sector. The number of staff involved in the partnership is expected to grow as the relationship matures, while the technical scope of the partnership may also be widened depending on its success.

Cranfield said its Defence College of Management Technology (DCMT), based at its Shrivenham campus in Oxfordshire, will be able to provide a secure environment and in-depth understanding of the operational use of defence equipment through its partnership with the Ministry of Defence.

In addition to research and access to considerable academic expertise in the areas of energetics and ordnance science & technology, Cranfield will provide training and education for Chemring staff through its postgraduate programmes, continuing professional development short courses and vocational training programmes.

Chemring and Cranfield will also carry out work at Cranfield’s campus in Bedfordshire and at Chemring’s own facilities. Professor Ian Wallace, head of the Department of Materials and Applied Science at DCMT, said the partnership would allow Cranfield to get a “real insight” to the issues confronting a company competing in a global market.

“The close working relationship between Chemring staff and Cranfield will provide an environment for innovation from which Chemring will be able to develop new and improved products and Cranfield will be able to further explore some of its ideas,” he said.

“The relationship will also make a major contribution to replenishing expertise in a critical sector of defence.” Chemring Group is a leading manufacturer and global supplier of military countermeasures, energetics and munitions, pyrotechnics and EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal). It employs over 2,500 people worldwide serving prime contractors, military and homeland security.

Chemring Energetics Division Engineering and Technology director, Dr James Routh, said ownership of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) would vary from project to project. Dr Routh expected the partnership to give Chemring access to the broad expertise in explosives science & technology that Cranfield has built at Shrivenham through its support to the UK Defence Academy as well as access to some of the specialist world class research facilities on Cranfield’s Shrivenham site.

Cranfield University’s DCMT operates as academic provider to the Defence College of Management and Technology at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, a partnership which allows Cranfield to draw on the skills and real experience of the Navy, Army, Air Force and Civil Service in delivering course programmes.

The DCMT is a leading world centre for research in defence and defence-related fields, which includes programmes in disaster management, military vehicles, guns, civil engineering, explosives, materials science, mathematical modelling, communications, missile control systems, electrical drives, solar energy, fuel cells and robotics.


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