Giant contract causes a stir
Giant contract causes a stirKeywords:TWI, Welding
A huge international contract to exploit an invention by the UK's TWI was signed earlier this year.
It is called EuroStir™ and is worth nearly seven million Euros. There are 12 main collaborators from six European nations and it is destined to last five years.
The project's focus is the industrial exploitation of friction stir welding,in other words, getting the process out of the laboratory and adopted by industry. Friction stir welding was invented by TWI in 1991 and has been the subject of extensive development and commercial adoption ever since.
To do this a group of companies and research institutes has teamed up to carry out feasibility studies on full-size industrial prototypes.
The project is part of the Eureka scheme and will be supported by the national governments of all the countries involved, namely the UK, Denmark,France, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
