In order to help Essar Oil UK, we will be looking for a range of products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in supporting this event.

Sited on a 770 hectare industrialised area of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, the Stanlow Oil Refinery is one of the largest oil refineries in Europe processing up to 9 million tonnes of crude oil and feedstock every year.

It is part of the Essar Group, a global and diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of steel, oil and gas, power, communications, shipping ports and logistics; and construction.

The Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Cheshire plays a strategic role in the UK economy, supplying 16% of all road transport fuels. It is also a major regional employer of staff and onsite contractors; and supports several thousand other people indirectly through the extended value chain.

With an array of processes to operate and maintain, including chemical facilities used to produce items such as propylene, Ethyl Benzene and detergent intermediates, the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex is a fully integrated and multi-faceted facility requiring support in many areas from asset lifecycle management through to development into new technologies and novel techniques.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.

In making preparations for an event on behalf of BAE Systems (Air Sector) we will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain that can focus on supporting key requirements of the Air Sector’s business needs.

These are likely to include specialist areas such as Software, Big Data Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Future Technologies and potentially other areas of engineering development. However, there might also be a need to support the Air Sector with more conventional technology that can supply the Tempest/Future Combat Air System, fast Jet systems & equipment and the Typhoon & Hawk platforms.

Until we have further details on this event, we are interested in collating a register of suppliers who think they have a technology that can offer something in these or related areas.

In particular, please let us know if you can supply any of the following:

• AI Technology
• Business intelligence
• Analytics and advanced prognostics
• System integration
• Data quality and data cleansing
• Use-ability apps
• Sensing technology
• Big data infrastructure
• Analytics (toolsets to handle 100K data points)
• Analytics & data discovery
• Condition based maintenance toolsets and providers
• Augmented Reality Vendors
• Workflow software
• SAP specific bolt-ons
• Condition monitoring
• Surveying drones
• Automated or remote technologies for material state
• Other (please specify)

BAE SYSTEMS is a global company engaged in the development, delivery and support of advanced defence, security and aerospace systems in the air, on land and at sea.

BAE Systems Maritime (Submarines) based at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria is the only UK builder of nuclear submarines and has a shipbuilding history which spans more than 100 years. The Barrow site is a designated submarine ‘centre of excellence’ and a key component of BAE Systems Maritime activities as well as being the industrial lead for the Successor programme. Huge redevelopment plans have recently been completed in preparations for the £41 billion Dreadnought programme (to replace the Vanguard Class of submarine from 2028) with the construction of a new manufacturing facility which will eventually be used to outfit the Dreadnought submarines. These submarines, which will carry the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent, will be the largest and most advanced boats operated by the Royal Navy and their design and construction will be the most technologically complex in the history of the UK.

In supporting the construction of both the remaining Astute Class submarines and the Dreadnought programme, this event will not only be seeking current technologies but also equipment that is innovative and more cutting-edge than those ever used before.

To help serve that need suppliers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful.

Please indicate which might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed below please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience.

Technology areas of interest

• Stealth & Survivability
• Combat Systems Evolution
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Propulsion & Platform Systems
• Information Management & Digital Strategy
• Test & Evaluation
• Other

HMNB Portsmouth is home to 70% of the Royal Navy’s surface ships, including the new QE Class aircraft carriers, the formidable Type 45 destroyers, Type 23 Frigates, Hunt Class Mine Countermeasure vessels and fishery protection squadrons.

BAE Systems is part of the team that will deliver the five year Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP) alongside the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the Royal Navy at HMNB Portsmouth.

The company was selected by the MOD to deliver the Ship Engineering Delivery & Management contract – a joint venture between BAE Systems and KBR, known as KBS Maritime – and was awarded the Hard Facilities Management (FM) & Alongside Services contract at Portsmouth. Together the two contracts are valued up to £1.3 billion.

Under the FMSP contract, BAE Systems will continue ship asset management, repair and maintenance for the Royal Navy’s Portsmouth flotilla as well as infrastructure, asset management and services. This will support the Royal Navy’s capabilities, including the new aircraft carriers and will deliver improved availability, resilience and certainty of delivery.

As part of this arrangement BAE Systems will continue to transform to meet the Royal Navy’s evolving requirements with an emphasis on performance, innovation and availability including the use of new digital and data technologies. This will ensure that Royal Navy personnel benefit from enhanced services and facilities whilst on land or at sea.

In 2021, BAE Systems was also awarded a £900 million contract by the MOD for Ship Engineering management and delivery at HMNB Portsmouth.

Heysham Nuclear Power Station near Lancaster is the only site in the UK where EDF Energy has two operating nuclear power stations side by side.

Both stations are Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGR’s), a British designed and built reactor system first launched commercially in the 1970’s. The AGR was the second generation of British gas-cooled reactor using graphite as the neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as the coolant.

Now owned and operated by EDF Energy, Heysham 1 first started generating electricity in 1983 with Heysham 2 coming online just a few years later in 1988. Following a review, both power stations have recently been given an extension to their operational lifespan with Heysham 1 extended to 2026 and Heysham 2 to 2028.

There are around 1500 employees, including contract partners, based at Heysham who are involved in all aspects of operation, maintenance and functional activities. The safe and effective operation of both power stations remains highly important to EDF Energy as the company moves into the life extension period of both stations. Engaging with the supply chain to identify new products, transferable technologies and innovation will therefore support both Heysham 1 & 2 in this objective.

Since its origins in the 1940’s, Springfields has provided nuclear fuel, chemical and mechanical fabrication for LWR, AGR and Magnox fuel, and conversion services for Uranium Hexafloride.

As the first plant in the world to produce fuel for a commercial nuclear power station, the site has produced several million fuel elements and supplied products and services to customers in 11 countries since 1946. On 1 April 2010 Westinghouse entered into an agreement with the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) for a long-term lease of the Springfields site, which transferred responsibility for the commercial fuel manufacturing business and Springfields Fuels Limited to Westinghouse.

Main activities on the site include:

• Manufacture of oxide fuels for Advanced Gas-cooled and Light Water Reactors, as well as intermediate fuel products, such as powders, granules and pellets
• Uranium recovery services
• Decommissioning and demolition of redundant plants and buildings

We will be working with Westinghouse in providing a supplier exhibition to support their current and upcoming needs. These will focus on products and equipment typically associated with process, chemical and manufacturing technology.

In particular, companies offering the following professional and plant services may find benefit in attending this event:

• PLC – Instrumentation
• Design
• Safety Case Management
• Contracting Services including Asset Care
• Remediation
• New Build
• Infrastructure Services
• D & D (Decommissioning)
• Engineering
• Nuclear Instruments

Additionally, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) also has staff on the Springfields Site working in nuclear physics and advanced reactors, design and manufacture nuclear fuels, providing specialist analytical services and process chemistry. It is a key part of the UK’s nuclear infrastructure and a strategic national asset undertaking research work in areas such as environmental restoration and health & nuclear medicine.

Westinghouse and NNL staff together with site-based contractors will be invited to attend this event.

Babcock is an international aerospace, defence and security company, with a leading naval business, providing value add services across a range of countries, including the UK, France, Canada, Australia and South Africa. Babcock helps customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.

Babcock’s new Technology Centre in Stoke Gifford, Bristol consolidates Babcock’s long-term occupation in the South West Region and brings together engineering and design staff from a number of different locations in the area. Recently opened, it provides a technology hub for promoting collaboration with a range of corporate stakeholders including the Ministry of Defence which is located a short distance away.

A major employer of more than 10,000 staff in in the South West region,  Babcock also operates Devonport in Plymouth, the largest naval base in Western Europe and contributes £1.1 billion to the UK’s GDP.

In helping Babcock in their long-term goal to support the UK’s defence sector and other key clients, companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event.

Please indicate, when registering your interest, which items you can support and we will be back with more details when available:

• Digital data communications and networks
• Remote and autonomous inspection systems
• Additive Manufacturing
• Augmented Reality
• Big Data
• Cloud Computing
• Cybersecurity
• Simulation Systems
• Integration
• Other Industry 4.0 technologies not listed above

Babcock is an international aerospace, defence and security company, with a leading naval business, providing value add services across a range of countries, including the UK, US, Canada, Korea, Australia and South Africa. Babcock helps customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.

Babcock International’s Rosyth Dockyard in Dunfermline, Fife is the location of one of the largest waterside manufacturing and repair facilities in the UK and offers Energy and Marine client’s access to world-class dockyard efficiency, scale and adaptability adjacent to the North sea. From its early Naval support era, the business at Rosyth has continuously evolved and today offers an extensive and diverse range of commercial and engineering support services to UK and international customers.

The facilities offer complete customer service, from concept to completion, and the unique capabilities, facilities and infrastructure allow Babcock to provide comprehensive logistical support to its many customers. Spanning across a 300-acre site, Rosyth has a fabrication area the equivalent in size of more than 1,100 parked buses, along with 25 covered manufacturing bays each equipped with specially widened doors that can accommodate even the largest of projects. The company delivers large-scale manufacturing, off-site modular build, logistics and heavy lifts and can accommodate ships and submarines in three dry docks up to 320m in length, with secure non-tidal access and ship lift facilities up to 1,000 tonnes.

Having seen investment of over £100m in recent years, the Rosyth Dockyard spends £ millions annually with the UK’s supply chain.

As the biggest nuclear event of its kind to be held on the Birchwood Park, Warrington each year – the first being introduced by Nu-Tech to Birchwood employees in 1994 – we are proud of our record as the leading and longest-serving organiser of bespoke supplier exhibitions to the UK’s nuclear sector.

With an opportunity to ‘reach, re-engage and rebuild’ links with staff from across the biggest cluster of nuclear businesses in the North West, this will be a chance to demonstrate your capabilities and let an eager audience know what you’ve been up to over the last year.

Located in the heart of Birchwood Park, the Nu-Tech Engineering & Technology Solutions Exhibition will offer suppliers a day of networking and contact-building opportunities with representatives from all levels of the nuclear supply chain and provide access to some of the most influential and solution-seeking individuals in the sector.

The event will be particularly useful if you are looking to expand into the nuclear arena as well as offer a route if you wish to promote transferable technology or launch new and innovative ideas. Visitors are expected from Sellafield Ltd, their supporting Tier 1, 2 & 3 contractors along with others in the nuclear supply chain.

In addition, we will again be working in collaboration with the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) as they prepare to host their regular focused group meetings for members and guest attendees in succession with the Nu-Tech exhibition. This partnership will ensure participants of both events can make best use of their time and resources over two-consecutive days.

The NIA group meetings focus on the key developments across the nuclear sector and act as a forum to share best practice, understand the strategic work programmes in the UK and abroad, as well as providing an opportunity for organisations to engage with the supply chain. Working in partnership with the NIA, participating companies and corporate visitors to the Engineering & Technology Exhibition will have an opportunity to combine the two activities and make their attendance at Birchwood a highly time efficient experience.

NIA members and non-member companies interested in attending the attending these meetings should visit: www.niauk.org/events/ for more information and the option to register.

Daresbury Laboratory, part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), is renowned for its world leading scientific research in fields such as bio-medicine, physics, chemistry, materials, accelerator technology, engineering and computational science. STFC Daresbury Laboratory is located within the SciTech Daresbury National Science & Innovation Campus (Sci-Tech Park) near Warrington, Cheshire.

The STFC Laboratory is responsible for several largescale facilities and has expertise in such fields as:

• Synchrotron Light Exploitation
• Accelerator Science
• Advanced Instrumentation
• Advanced Engineering
• High performance Computing
• Nuclear Physics
• Modelling Simulation

STFC’s facilities at Daresbury Laboratory also include:

• The Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC)
• STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre
• CLARA Particle Accelerator
• Electron Beam Test Facility
• VISTA Thin Film Facility
• Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC)
• Scientific Computing Department
• Hartree Centre for supercomputing
• The Nuclear Physics Group
• Engineering Technology Capabilities

The Sci-Tech Daresbury campus is also home to over 100 high-tech companies employed in areas such as advanced engineering, digital/ICT, biomedical, energy and environmental technologies, instrumentation/ electronics, packaging, chemicals, analytical technology and the nuclear sector. Staff from both STFC and the adjacent high-tech companies on the Park will be invited to visit this exhibition.

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus is owned and operated by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and one of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary research organisations supporting scientists and engineers world-wide.

RAL operates world-class large-scale research facilities, provides strategic advice to the government on their development and manages international research projects in support of a broad cross-section of the UK research community. It has a global reputation for excellence and is one of the foremost laboratories of its kind. Based within the RAL facility is the Diamond synchrotron light source which is the largest scientific facility to be constructed in the UK and is used in many research areas including physics, chemistry, materials science and crystallography.

Other major STFC facilities onsite, and on the wider Harwell Campus, include the Central Laser Facility, ISIS neutron and muon source, RAL space, The Satellite Applications Catapult, Scientific Computing Department and their Technology Department.

The Harwell Campus is also the site of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) UK Centre, building on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory’s longstanding position as a world leader in space science and technology. Staff from STFC, Diamond and ESA will all be invited to attend this event.

For further information about STFC and the work at Rutherford Appleton site, please visit: https://www.ukri.org/councils/stfc/

HM Naval Base Clyde – commonly known throughout the Navy as Faslane – is the Royal Navy’s main presence in Scotland. It is home to the core of the Submarine Service, including the nation’s nuclear deterrent, and the new generation of hunter-killer submarines.

As the Ministry of Defence’s commercial partner at HMNB Clyde, Babcock International provides highly specialist engineering support services, including the management of critical infrastructure and nuclear facilities.

Babcock also delivers operational maintenance, upgrades and repairs to support Royal Navy vessels, including the Vanguard and Astute-Class nuclear submarines based in Scotland.

HMNB Clyde waterfront activities also include supporting naval surface ships, with responsibility for managing engineering work on base-ported Mine Countermeasure Vessels and carrying out emergency and scheduled maintenance on other visiting Royal Navy and foreign naval vessels. A comprehensive facilities management service is also provided that covers building management, housekeeping and grounds maintenance, berthing and radioactive waste processing.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.

Companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event:

• • Advanced welding techniques
  • Pipe preparation
  • Digital twin 3D modelling/ reverse engineering
  • Pressure testing/ commissioning/ Gortex Sealing
  • Leak monitoring/ detection
  • Bungs/ pressure blanks
  • Loose article control
  • Quick Release couplings
  • Replacement for radiography
  • Under paint corrosion detection/ eddy current
  • Under water NDE/ inspection
  • 3D printer service providers
  • Hydraulic flushing and filtering/ clean up
  • Mechanical component cleaning
  • Core and protection – paint films, waxes, covers
  • Advanced machining
  • Temporary repair Solutions
  • Snapped stud extraction EG. spark corrosion
  • Tooling asset control
  • Fibre-optic repair
  • Underwater paints and fillers
  • Modern types of PPE
  • Augmented reality training support solutions
  • Calibration
  • Radiation and environmental monitoring
  • Confined space systems – improved ventilation
  • Advanced tooling
  • Air operated/ cordless tools
  • Paint and corrosion removal
  • Physical security (scanners)
  • Diving and inspection cameras
  • Pest control
  • Training simulation
  • Lifting, slinging and manual handling
  • Advanced scaffolding solutions, towers and hop-ups
  • Firefighting tools – modern techniques
  • Asset tracking
  • Robotics
  • Pipe unblocking
  • Cooler cleaning
  • Thread replications – laser/putty (SSE)
  • Fast track computer records system
  • Laser ablation for paint removal and rust removal
  • Use of alternatives to Chlorine injection for Sea Water system protection
  • Brent replacement for secret access on jetty
  • Ultrasonic Testing
  • Hydrostatic Testing
  • Vacuum Testing – Helium vacuum testing, Tracer gas sniffer test method
  • Preservation capabilities for steam system pipes, hotwells etc.
  • Radiation monitoring/ decontamination kits
  • UAV/ROV
  • Anti-drone capabilities

QinetiQ is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire. It is a world-leading provider of unmanned air, land and surface targets for live-fire training and weapons system test and evaluation.

The company provides a centre of excellence for research and development, and acts as catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, technical, engineering and scientific expertise. The land, sea and air ranges that QinetiQ operate are some of the most advanced in the world.

In meeting its ongoing and future requirements, QinetiQ wants to engage with suppliers who are also at the forefront of technology and innovation and who wish to potentially work with QinetiQ as it steers its business through the Industry 4.0 revolution.

We are therefore seeking companies who can offer ‘technologies of the future’ and are keen to showcase their capabilities to QinetiQ staff in an Innovation Exhibition on the Farnborough site around Spring 2023.

Porton Down in Wiltshire is home to two British Government facilities – the MOD’s Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) alongside Porton Biopharma Ltd which is co-located with the UKHSA. It is also the location of the Porton Science Park which was established in 2018 to develop into a major centre of excellence in Life Sciences, Biotechnology and Defence Technologies. The Science Park is now also expanding to support and promote innovation and collaboration in science and technology.

We are seeking supply chain products and areas of expertise that may be able to support these key organisations.

The Government has recently announced 25 programmes and 4 new projects within the Defence Science and Technology Portfolio that have significant funding and collaborative opportunities for industry and academia.

Over the next 4 years, the MOD will invest at least £6.6 billion in research and development (R&D) and this Science and Technology Portfolio will ensure defence sustains operational advantage, can make the right decisions, and generate prosperity for the UK.

Additionally in serving the needs of the UKHSA and Porton Biopharma we are also looking for companies that can offer Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Technologies. These may be products surrounding digital innovation as well as other manufacturing process equipment.

To gauge the level of interest from companies keen to showcase their capabilities to a Porton Down  audience, please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which capability areas you think your products and services might support.

Babcock is an international aerospace, defence and security company, with a leading naval business, providing value add services across a range of countries, including the UK, France, Canada, Australia and South Africa. Babcock helps customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.

Babcock International’s Devonport Royal Dockyard facility is co-located with HM Naval Base Devonport to form the largest naval support site in Western Europe. The site is an operational, training and support base for both submarines and surface ships including visiting international naval vessels.

The Naval Base is the home port for all ships in the Royal Navy amphibious fleet, half of the Royal Navy frigate fleet and a number of Royal Navy submarines and survey vessels. Babcock’s facilities at Devonport include the UK’s sole licenced site for the refitting and refuel / defuel of nuclear-powered submarines, where both Trafalgar and Vanguard Class of submarines undergo major refits and upgrades. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, Babcock provides through-life support for submarines, surface ships and associated systems and equipment as part of the company’s commitment to support the UK’s naval capability.

Babcock’s Naval Base Management service supports all activities on the Devonport site: from the provision of all waterfront services, through the management of extensive above and below ground infrastructure and plant, to the control and supply of utilities and logistics.

In meeting the ongoing and future requirements of the site, Babcock would like to engage with a comprehensive range of suppliers that focus on engineering and technology products and expertise in support of all the areas listed above. These may be companies from across both existing and transferable industry sectors; but who are also based in the South West region of England – defined as Bristol, Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly), Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Companies based outside of this geographic area can still express an interest in exhibiting by indicating what specialist products or expertise they think may benefit the Devonport site. We will contact these companies separately if an opportunity becomes available for them to participate. However, please note that priority will initially be given to those located in the SW that have technologies of interest to Babcock.

Granta Park is a science, technology and biopharmaceutical park in the heart of the Cambridge Science Cluster. Opened some 20 years ago, the site is home to over 3,500 staff employed in research & development, laboratories and offices. Leading scientific companies such as Sosei Heptares AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Illumina, PPD, TWI are based on Granta Park along with a number of other world-leading companies in the field of Science and Technology.

BAE Systems Maritime Services at Broad Oak, Hilsea, Portsmouth has given an indication of the products, services or areas of expertise with which they seek and hope to engage dialogue with the supply chain.

The Broad Oak facility provides manufacturing and through-life support services for highly complex electronic integrated systems, sub-systems and modules for high integrity applications including Torpedoes and Radar. This comprises bench level systems activities for full ISO containerised ground control stations, on-missile seekers, weapons systems, avionics equipment, radar turning gear, cabinet and racking systems.

In addition to BAE Systems Maritime, the Broad Oak facility is also home to the satellite manufacturing arm of Airbus Defence & Space. Being inside the secure area of the Broad Oak site, the location of this exhibition will also enable staff from Airbus to attend the Engineering & Technology Solutions Exhibition.

Suppliers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful. Please indicate which might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed below please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.

Essar Oil Stanlow Refinery, Ellesmere Port has given an indication of the products, services or areas of expertise with which they seek and hope to engage dialogue with the supply chain.

Sited on a 770 hectare industrialised area of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, the Stanlow Oil Refinery is one of the largest oil refineries in Europe processing up to 9 million tonnes of crude oil and feedstock every year.

It is part of the Essar Group, a global and diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of steel, oil and gas, power, communications, shipping ports and logistics; and construction.

The Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Cheshire plays a strategic role in the UK economy, supplying 16% of all road transport fuels. It is also a major regional employer of staff and on-site contractors; and supports several thousand other people indirectly through the extended value chain.

With an array of processes to operate and maintain, including chemical facilities used to produce items such as propylene, Ethyl Benzene and detergent intermediates, the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex is a fully integrated and multi-faceted facility requiring support in many areas from asset lifecycle management through to development into new technologies and novel techniques.

Suppliers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available once the event date is secured.

BAE Systems Maritime at HMNB Portsmouth, has given an indication that they will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in hosting this event.

The Naval Base delivers end-to-end maritime services and support to over 50% of the Royal Navy’s Surface Fleet ranging from warship availability, equipment and facilities management, training, product development and through life support for radar, torpedoes and small boats.

This is a busy time for Bae Systems at the Portsmouth Naval Base not only since the arrival of first of the UK’s new aircraft carriers, but as they continue to give the MOD a commitment via the Maritime Support Delivery Framework contract to improve the maintenance programme of the Royal Navy’s Hunt class mine countermeasures vessels as well as manage the naval base.

Under the Framework contract, Bae Systems delivers a range of support services to ships, including technical services, maintenance, repair and upgrades to ensure ships are available for their operational requirements. This includes the management of the Portsmouth Naval Base estate on behalf of the Royal Navy, delivering everything that is needed to live and work on the base such as planning, engineering, hard facilities management, programme management and estates services covering energy, waterfront and logistics. Seeking both existing and potentially new suppliers who can help meet the needs of the Portsmouth Naval Base, this event aims to identify new technologies or ideas that can be transferred from other industry sectors.

The date for this event is still yet to be confirmed and the list is currently being refined to best meet the requirements of the site. This should be available early 2019.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and we will confirm the date as soon as it is secured.

In hosting this event, BAE Systems at Warton Aerodrome has given an indication that they will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain which will focus on trying to enhance human performance.

The increasing speed of technological development, the proliferation of vast amounts of data and information; and the increasing pressure on rapid human decision-making create the opportunity for new solutions. The ability to augment human performance, both mentally and physically, could therefore prove to be a distinct advantage from the design office to the factory, to the maintenance hangar and to operations on the front line.

As these demanding environments put high pressure on the physical, perceptive and cognitive capabilities of the human, we aim to utilise this exhibition to look for technologies that can be used either on their own or in combination with others to support the human ‘decision-maker’.

We’re interested in individuals and organisations who think they have a technology that can offer something in these or related areas. The technologies can apply across all users, maintainers, operators, trainees, trainers, pilots, etc. and could come from a range of diverse industry sectors, not just those designed for defence, as well as across all maturities as they could be mutually leveraged now or as part of future products and services.

Essentially, BAE Systems want to know what it is, what it could be used for, and how.

Suppliers of the following products and services may therefore find exhibiting at this event useful.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you.

If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might still  be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.

Design

• Augmentation Aids to Design & Development: Visualisation devices are being routinely used for design and development product visualisation to improve schedule, cost, and quality through early de-risking / issue identification. This extends to war gaming visualisation as a part of early lifecycle solution definition such that product and environment can be more readily assessed.

Systems

• Multi-modal Virtual Cockpit : A customisable, rapidly upgradeable, intuitive, and human performance enhancing cockpit has been including psycho-physiological state deduction and adaptive interfaces. This provides a major discriminating product feature for existing products, a future fighter, and potential future training systems.
• Perception Sensory Augmentation, to maximise perceptual capability of the sensing through utilising all the senses
• Cognitive Augmentation, to support information processing and cognition, better leveraging the brain’s capabilities and how it interfaces with co-operating machines to optimise human machine teaming.

Platform & Manufacturing

• Digital Factory: Human performance in the manufacturing environment is enhanced through cobotics (human-machine teaming), modular / reconfigurable human factors inspired workstations, augmented and mixed reality wearables providing instructions, guidance, and quality control information, and workers equipped with exoskeletons. This improves manufacturing agility and performance (schedule, cost, risk, quality).

Training & Support

• Training Twin : As a part of the Training Twin solution a wearable solution is provided to allow anytime, anywhere, on-demand training for their task . Psycho-physio monitoring combined with analytics and affective computing allows the trainee and the trainer to optimise the training in near real-time.
• Mission Interfaces for Information Advantage : A common mixed reality interface provides improved situational awareness leading to information advantage. This provides a discriminator for our mission planning products, novel control station interface for a future fighter when operating in uninhabited mode, and a potential new command centre product aimed at pan-domain advanced decision making for battlespace management.
• Human Augmented Support : Augmenting the human like that in the Digital Factory (above) using wearable display technologies and exoskeletons to allow our customers to do more with less (personnel) or to simply do more if capability is more important than saving cost through labour reduction
• Wearables & Haptic Technology
• Virtual Assistants
• Exoskeletons

If you do not supply any of the above technologies but do provide support in one or more of these related areas, please let us know as there may still be an opportunity to exhibit:

• Automation
• Robotics & collaborative robots
• Software
• Sensors
• Big Data
• Systems Integrators
• Simulation
• Horizontal & Vertical Integration

It’s an exciting time for UKAEA Culham and the Culham Science Centre as new buildings and development projects get underway.

Not only are the UKAEA scientists and engineers at Culham now making nuclear fusion power a viable technology for the power stations of tomorrow, but a major new project – the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) – is also building on all of UKAEA’s expertise in the design of the World’s first compact fusion power plant for the future.

The Culham site is also the home to the UK’s fusion compact experiment MAST as well as the base for ground-breaking work in the RACE Robotics Test facility for fusion, fission and other industries.

Additionally, Culham also has a thriving materials science programme centred on the new Materials Research Facility and a brand new structure for Tritium and Components Testing is in the process of being constructed.

Alongside this, the Culham Science Centre is one of the most successful science locations in the country and has become a global hot spot for enterprise and innovation in science, high technology and the application of knowledge.

It is the location for a wide variety of high tech businesses including those focussing on:

• Radiological protection
• Space technology & systems
• Biotechnology & bioscience
• Research & development
• Battery technology
• Forensic science services
• Information technology
• Metal fabrication

Working with UKAEA and in partnership with the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), we will be hosting an ‘Engineering and Technology Expo’ on the Culham Site during 2021 to help serve the upcoming procurement needs of all of the projects currently underway.

During the exhibition day, the NIA will hold its regular Nuclear Fusion Group which aims to bring together industry members from across the UK to identify opportunities and prospects for the fusion community. This audience will also be invited to attend the exhibition as part of their Group Programme.

This event was postponed from 2020 as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. A new date is expected to be confirmed shortly.

The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham is recognised internationally for its innovative research and advanced manufacturing processes, and has already attracted world leading high technology companies such as:

BAE Systems Maritime Services at Broad Oak, Hilsea, Portsmouth has given an indication of the products, services or areas of expertise with which they seek and hope to engage dialogue with the supply chain.

The Broad Oak facility provides manufacturing and through-life support services for highly complex electronic integrated systems, sub-systems and modules for high integrity applications including Torpedoes and Radar. This comprises bench level systems activities for full ISO containerised ground control stations, on-missile seekers, weapons systems, avionics equipment, radar turning gear, cabinet and racking systems.

In addition to BAE Systems Maritime, the Broad Oak facility is also home to the satellite manufacturing arm of Airbus Defence & Space. Being inside the secure area of the Broad Oak site, the location of this exhibition will also enable staff from Airbus to attend the Engineering & Technology Solutions Exhibition.

Suppliers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful. Please indicate which might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed below please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.

• Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
• Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
• UKAEA
• AMRC Training Centre
• Rolls Royce – Aerospace
• McLaren Automotive
• TWI
• British Steel
• Nikken
• Plus many others

Hosted by Nu-Tech in partnership with the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and the AMRC, 2023 will see the second anniversary of this new and exciting event on AMP, which again aims to together engineers, technologists, scientists and other key representatives from companies across the Park in a unique environment where they can meet with exhibiting suppliers, witness product demonstrations, discuss practical problem-solving and find potential engineering & technology solutions through networking and supplier engagement.

Partnering with NAMRC and AMRC again, the exhibition will also create a forum for the promotion of technology transfer and innovation whilst also allowing for the valuable sharing of best practice between multiple industry sectors.

Essar Oil Stanlow Refinery, Ellesmere Port has given an indication of the products, services or areas of expertise with which they seek and hope to engage dialogue with the supply chain.

Sited on a 770 hectare industrialised area of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, the Stanlow Oil Refinery is one of the largest oil refineries in Europe processing up to 9 million tonnes of crude oil and feedstock every year.

It is part of the Essar Group, a global and diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of steel, oil and gas, power, communications, shipping ports and logistics; and construction.

The Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Cheshire plays a strategic role in the UK economy, supplying 16% of all road transport fuels. It is also a major regional employer of staff and on-site contractors; and supports several thousand other people indirectly through the extended value chain.

With an array of processes to operate and maintain, including chemical facilities used to produce items such as propylene, Ethyl Benzene and detergent intermediates, the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex is a fully integrated and multi-faceted facility requiring support in many areas from asset lifecycle management through to development into new technologies and novel techniques.

Suppliers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available once the event date is secured.

BAE Systems Maritime at HMNB Portsmouth, has given an indication that they will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in hosting this event.

The Naval Base delivers end-to-end maritime services and support to over 50% of the Royal Navy’s Surface Fleet ranging from warship availability, equipment and facilities management, training, product development and through life support for radar, torpedoes and small boats.

This is a busy time for Bae Systems at the Portsmouth Naval Base not only since the arrival of first of the UK’s new aircraft carriers, but as they continue to give the MOD a commitment via the Maritime Support Delivery Framework contract to improve the maintenance programme of the Royal Navy’s Hunt class mine countermeasures vessels as well as manage the naval base.

Under the Framework contract, Bae Systems delivers a range of support services to ships, including technical services, maintenance, repair and upgrades to ensure ships are available for their operational requirements. This includes the management of the Portsmouth Naval Base estate on behalf of the Royal Navy, delivering everything that is needed to live and work on the base such as planning, engineering, hard facilities management, programme management and estates services covering energy, waterfront and logistics. Seeking both existing and potentially new suppliers who can help meet the needs of the Portsmouth Naval Base, this event aims to identify new technologies or ideas that can be transferred from other industry sectors.

The date for this event is still yet to be confirmed and the list is currently being refined to best meet the requirements of the site. This should be available early 2019.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and we will confirm the date as soon as it is secured.

BAE Systems Samlesbury at Samlesbury Aerodrome, has given an indication that they will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in hosting this event.

The list is currently being refined to best meet the requirements of the site. This should be available early 2019.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and we will be back in touch once we have a detailed list which is best to meet the requirements of the site.

BAE Systems Warton at Warton Aerodrome, has given an indication that they will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in hosting this event.

The list is currently being refined to best meet the requirements of the site. This should be available early 2019.

Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and we will be back in touch once we have a detailed list which is best to meet the requirements of the site.

Babcock Devonport has given an indication that they will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in hosting this event.

Babcock Royal Dockyard is co-located with HMNB Devonport to form the largest naval support site in Western Europe. The site is an operational, training and support base for both submarines and surface ships including visiting international naval vessels.

The Naval Base is the home port for all ships in the Royal Navy amphibious fleet, half of the Royal Navy frigate fleet and a number of Royal Navy submarines and survey vessels. Babcock’s facilities at Devonport include the UK’s sole licenced site for the refitting and refuel/ defuel of nuclear-powered submarines, where both Trafalgar and Vanguard Class of submarines undergo major refits and upgrades. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, Babcock provides through-life support for submarines, surface ships and associated systems and equipment as part of the company’s commitment to support the UK’s naval capability.

Babcock’s Naval Base Management service supports all activities on the Devonport site: from the provision of all waterfront services, through the management of extensive above and below ground infrastructure and plant, to the control and supply of utilities and logistics.

Companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event:

• 3-D Printing
• Additive Manufacturing including design, materials, process & inspection
• Artificial Intelligence
• Augmented & Virtual Reality
• Automation
• Autonomous Robots
• Cybersecurity
• Data and Analytics
• Horizontal and Vertical System Integration
• Machine Learning
• Robotics & Remote Handling
• Simulation & Modelling
• The Cloud
• The Industrial Internet of Things