PRESS RELEASE 
 August 2015 

LCV 2015
Stand: C3-206

HSSMI promotes low carbon manufacturing collaborations at LCV 2015

HSSMI will showcase a range of low carbon manufacturing collaboration and automotive virtual engineering opportunities at LCV 2015.

The Institute is currently working on a series of transformational low carbon research and commercialisation programmes, bringing together collaborative teams to develop and deploy the engineering ideas born in UK universities. These will change the face of UK powertrain, electric and hybrid automotive manufacturing.

HSSMI will also provide information on the new APC-funded Centre of Excellence for Digital Test and Engineering which will be opening this autumn at The Queen Elizabeth Park, Stratford. This Loughborough University initiative will be managed and run by HSSMI.

Energy storage research

Visitors to LCV will be able to explore HSSMI's ongoing research into automotive and marine energy storage, being carried out on behalf of project partner Denchi Power. Denchi produces robust energy storage and power management products for high reliability markets, typically used in off-road, robust vehicles.

The research project has been put in place to support new manufacturing systems to respond to increased demand for energy storage products. It will also facilitate the development of new technologies for the marine sector.

Representatives from Denchi will be available on the HSSMI stand to discuss the research programme and the resulting energy storage solutions.

Fuel cell design and manufacture

The HSSMI stand will also highlight the institute's current work with UCL. This spans the development of manufacturing capability for a novel fuel cell design, taking it form the early stages of Manufacturing Readiness Level up to testing of manufacturing capabilities in a relevant environment.

A second collaboration with UCL is focusing on Flexi-Planar Fuel Cell Manufacturing, developing novel manufacturing capabilities for PCB based fuel cells (FFC). This technology has the potential to reduce the cost of fuel cells by more than 33%, reduce significantly the weight and volume, and allow any form factor which can be built from two dimensional layers.

UCL team members will be available on the stand to discuss the progress of both projects.

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Contact details

For more information, visit www.hssmi.org or contact Adrienne Robins at Green Tiger Communications: 07855 643094, Adrienne@greentigercommunications.co.uk.

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Notes to editors

LCV 2015 takes place on 9 and 10 September 2015 at Millbrook Proving Ground, Bedfordshire. It is the UK's premier low carbon vehicle event, showcasing the best practice and technology innovations.

The High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute bridges the gap between academia and industry. Our collaborative approach delivers leading edge research and technology deployment programmes, all with the singular aim of improving the efficiency of UK and European manufacturers and their value chains.

HSSMI is renowned for its work in the automotive sector where our partnerships continue to develop innovative solutions.

Recognised as one of the UK's leading independent institutes for the acceleration of manufacturing technology deployment, we are delivering a step-change in manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness.

To do this, we take a contemporary and applied approach to collaboration, developing and co-ordinating multi-partner and multi-industry teams which span academia, OEMs, value chain partners and solution providers. Care is taken to ensure that each collaboration combines experience and innovation, ensuring a 360 degree applied approach.

Through these multi-disciplinary collaborations we develop and deploy the modelling, implementation and monitoring programmes to deliver new, world-class, high-volume manufacturing systems.

HSSMI is a not for profit organisation. Profits resulting from our activities are put back into the Institute to fund further innovative manufacturing research programmes.