Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre

NIACE provides:

• secured offices for participants and university partners to co-locate and perform research together
• workshops (fabrication and processing)
• laboratories (mechanical testing, polymer processing, 3D weaving, microscopy, thermal analysis)
• meeting rooms
• design visualisation facility
• conference facility

Our expertise and capability supports multiple sectors including Aerospace, Automotive, Construction, Marine, Renewables and Space.

We offer knowledge and skills together with access to likeminded businesses in different aspects of engineering and manufacturing through workshops and introductions to new technologies.

We offer an opportunity to reduce development times, share project responsibility, have the potential to access funding and provide access to equipment for manufacturing and testing not currently available to the company.

NIACE provides an opportunity for organisations across the globe to become members, working on joint projects and de-risking of research and development activities. Participating businesses are encouraged to regularly place their employees at the centre to maximise learning.