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25 Jun 25. NCC to locate the UK’s first Carbon Fibre Development Facility in North-West England. NCC has today, 25th June 2025, confirmed the initial location of its open-access Carbon Fibre Development Facility. Recognised in the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy and Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, the initiative will support the UK’s strategic growth sectors.
The national innovation asset will be strategically located at technology partner Cygnet Texkimp’s site in Northwich, Cheshire West. The facility will house two digitally-enabled development lines for manufacturing carbon fibre, funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). It will act as a critical stepping stone to further develop and industrialise advanced material manufacturing capability in the UK.
Businesses accessing the facility benefit from world-class on-site materials expertise, close collaboration with the North West’s leading chemical and materials cluster, and – facilitated by NCC – the West of England’s leadership in advanced engineering.
Growing the UK’s sovereign Carbon Fibre production capability fully supports the UK’s Industrial Strategy and foundation industries such as advanced materials, while underpinning next-generation defence, aerospace and energy products. In addition to enabling carbon fibre innovation, the facility will train future generations of chemists and engineers, providing a major step forward in securing UK sovereign supply chains.
Next steps
Initial testing at the facility is scheduled to start in Autumn 2025, before it becomes fully operational in Spring 2026. NCC helps companies to capitalise on innovations to deliver more at every stage of their journey, across the entire product lifecycle from early concept to end-of-life. We invite industry, supply chain organisations, and RTOs interested in accessing the facility to get in touch to discuss how we can support you. Please contact
Richard Oldfield, CEO, NCC, said: “Our new Carbon Fibre Development Facility demonstrates NCC’s leadership in advanced material technologies, vital to accelerating the growth and competitiveness of the UK’s growth sectors. We’re delighted to continue our partnership with Cygnet Texkimp to develop this new manufacturing capability for carbon fibre, strategically located to facilitate collaborative partnerships and deliver industrial impact for the UK.”
Luke Vardy, CEO, Cygnet Texkimp, said: “We’re extremely pleased to continue our long-standing partnership with NCC and fulfil our long-term ambition to develop this capability within the UK. This facility directly complements our existing fibre processing and recycling capabilities, allowing us to showcase UK advanced materials innovation and manufacturing expertise across the product lifecycle. The opportunity to develop the next generation of British textile machinery and materials engineers in the North of England’s traditional textile manufacturing belt is also a very exciting and fitting prospect.”
23 Jun 25. Curtiss-Wright Corporation has introduced the industry’s highest performance SOSA aligned 3U VPX GPU module. The rugged VPX3-730, featuring the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU, is the newest member of Curtiss-Wright’s industry-leading Fabric100™ complete end-to-end ecosystem of VPX system building blocks that deliver proven interoperability and reduce system integration risk. For inferencing applications, NVIDIA Blackwell architecture represents a major leap forward in artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) and vector processing compute capacity and memory bandwidth capabilities over prior-generation GPUs, and delivers up to 15x higher performance compared to other accelerated computing solutions. It also enables system integrators to leverage NVIDIA’s extensive software ecosystem, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, deep learning frameworks, and neural network libraries. As an Embedded Enterprise Platform Partner with NVIDIA, Curtiss-Wright is able to better meet growing customer demand for higher performance, advanced processing solutions that significantly reduce integration risk.
Curtiss-Wright offers a complete solution – from ruggedized high reliability hardware through to application development – leveraging the NVIDIA software ecosystem. The new VPX3-730 module provides designers of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) systems with more NVIDIA CUDA cores, more NVIDIA Tensor Cores, and much more local memory, with support for NVIDIA ConnectX-7 100Gb/s Ethernet NICs with PCIe Gen5 connectivity and up to 50 TFLOPS of peak compute performance, the highest GPU performance ever offered in a rugged 3U VPX form factor. The SOSA aligned VPX3-730 establishes a new benchmark for deploying GPU-based processing capabilities and hardware acceleration for CUDA computing, graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.
The VPX3-730 module is ideal for use in size, weight and power (SWaP) constrained Aerospace and Edge Computing applications, such as demanding radar, display, sensor fusion and processing, that require the highest-performing GPU processing for deep learning inference and powerful math engines for AI workloads.
“Furthering our commitment to accelerate the development of advanced processing and communications systems for rugged applications at the extreme edge, we are proud to introduce the industry’s highest performance 3U VPX GPU module accelerated by NVIDIA, designed for edge processing,” said Brian Perry, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Curtiss-Wright. “The SOSA aligned rugged VPX3-730 module, the newest addition to our comprehensive Fabric100 family of high performance rugged system building blocks, provides a compelling solution for SWaP-constrained vector and AI/deep learning inference applications.”
Curtiss-Wright’s Fabric100 portfolio ecosystem of VPX system building blocks support 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and PCI Express® (PCIe) Gen4/5 connectivity and deliver proven interoperability that reduces system integration risk. Fabric100 enables integrators to architect the most advanced rugged modular sensor processing and AI/ML inferencing solutions with the lowest program risk. Curtiss-Wright offers the industry’s most comprehensive total lifecycle services management (TLCM) program to manage obsolescence for long lifecycle programs, and for the first time is able to bring these capabilities to NVIDIA technology, extending the life of products to meet the needs of critical capabilities and platform life extensions.
The VPX3-730 supports NVIDIA Linux Drivers supporting OpenGL and Vulkan accelerated graphics, along with OpenCL and NVIDIA CUDA for math and vector processing, as well as NVIDIA AI Enterprise for its extensive ecosystem of deep learning frameworks and neural network libraries.
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Oxley Group Ltd
Oxley offer a range of Military Marine NVG friendly LED lighting that includes navigation lights and controls, flight deck landing lights and interior compartment lighting. Our lighting products are used by Navies around the world including our own Royal Navy on UK Aircraft Carriers, Canadian Frigates, Swedish Submarines, Australian Surface vessels and Submarines, on board French Naval Carriers and in Naval Gun Turrets.
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The technology is extremely energy efficient and built robustly, with proven long life. The lighting is NVG friendly, dimmable and programmable to allow for operations with aircraft pilots using military night vision goggles. They offer superior design giving high reliability for the most demanding environments with high sealing and the ability to meet the most stringent EMC standards.
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Oxley are proud to say that we are working in partnership with SeaKing to enable a control panel to be offered with our LED Navigation Lighting. All of Oxley navigation lights have been specifically developed for vessels over 50 metres.
Contact Marcus Goad on 07850 917 263 for more information or to arrange samples.
Oxley specialises in the design and manufacture of advanced electronic and electro-optic components and systems for air, land and sea applications within the military sector. Established in 1942, Oxley has manufacturing facilities in the UK and USA and enjoys representation worldwide. The company’s products include night vision and LED lighting, data capture systems and electronic components. Oxley has pioneered the development of night vision compatible lighting. It offers a total package incorporating optical filters, equipment modification, cockpit and external lighting along with fleet wide upgrade services including engineering, installation, support, maintenance and training. The company’s long experience of manufacturing night vision lighting and LED indicators, coupled with advances in LED technology, has enabled it to develop LED solutions to replace incandescent and fluorescent lighting in existing applications as well as becoming the lighting option of choice in new applications such as portable military hospitals, UAV control stations and communication shelters.
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