UK-India research alliance is boost for manufacturing

We are very pleased to be working with WMG, which has such a good reputation around the world

Professor Damodar Acharya

Director

Indian Institute of Technology

The alliance will bring together two of the sector's top research and development institutes to work on new technologies in the fields of composite materials, medical technology and hybrid vehicles.

Professor Damodar Acharya, director of IIT Kharagpur, commented: "We are very pleased to be working with WMG, which has such a good reputation around the world”

"There are fantastic opportunities for collaborative research and for students from both countries to learn from their counterparts," he continued.

Established in 1980, WMG claims to be one of the UK's leading research and innovation centres, using specialists such as engineers, materials scientists and knowledge transfer experts to reinvigorate the UK's manufacturing sector.

WMG runs research centres in Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Its fourth facility at the University of Warwick campus will carry out digitally-based research projects and offer services to local businesses.