Products & Services:
NCC is a world-leading innovation organisation that transforms cutting-edge research and technology into industrial impact. As industry’s innovation partner, we help create a sustainable, productive and resilient future, transforming today’s industries and creating tomorrows.
The UK’s national Centre of Excellence for composite technology, NCC is home to worldleading capabilities and has deep expertise and 15-years of experience in working across the aerospace sector. This includes working in partnership with the UK’s Aerospace Technology
Institute (ATI) to deliver long-term capability and innovation for the UK’s aerospace sector.
With portfolio teams covering Structures, Propulsion, Systems & Interiors and Enabling technologies, the Aerospace team at NCC can provide support to Industry with solving their challenges, working across the full lifecycle – from requirements capture to end of life
recyclability.
Quality Approvals:
ISO 9001 – QMS
ISO 14001 – EMS
ISO 45001 – OHS
Market experience:
Part of the UK High Value Manufacturing Catapult network, NCC has supported many industrial organisations develop their next generation of products, processes and automation solutions over the 15 years.
NCC has more than 100 live projects within the Aerospace sector at any one time, ranging from SMEs to large OEMs, and is helping Industry develop their future capabilities on a daily basis.
Our strategic intent for the sector is to help position the UK supply chain to be ready to maximise the capture of composite component manufacture for the next generation of aerospace platforms, specifically the Next Generation Single Aisle (NGSA) wing structures and propulsion solutions.
Notable programmes include, but are not limited to:
- High Rate Manufacture Capital Acquisition (HRMCap)
- Airbus wing development programmes, such as Wing of Tomorrow and eXtra Performance Wing
- Rolls-Royce Ultrafan
- GE Aviation’s Dowty DigiProps
- ASCEND (Aerospace and Automotive Supply Chain Enabled Development) programme
Key equipment and processes:
NCC houses over £300m capital equipment covering over 10 state-of-the art technologies which includes:
- Advanced materials [future fibres, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and high performance materials, circularity & recycling]
- Systems engineering
- Concept engineering
- Design & analysis
- Modelling and simulation
- High-rate composite manufacturing processes including:
o New material characterisation
o Deposition and forming in AFP, DFP, ATL & NCF formats
o Infusion and cure including RTM, HPRTM,
o In process and post process verification (Metrology & NDT)
o Automation solutions
- Sustainability
- Digital transformation solutions
NCC can provide Industry the support and CAPEX equipment necessary to help shape future manufacturing opportunities and turn ideas into reality.
Major customers:
Tier 1 members across the supply chain include:
- Airbus
- BAE Systems
- GKN Aerospace
- Leonardo
- Northrop Grumman
- Rolls-Royce
Tier 2 members also include:
- Toray
- Hexcel
- Teijin
- Meggitt
- Pilatus
- Teledyne CML
- Safran seats
- GE Dowty
- Syensqo
- Eaton
- Axiom