Prototyping

In partnership with high-tech industry in the UK and elsewhere, Daresbury SIC is working towards developing new technologies for advanced particle accelerators, thereby ensuring that British companies are able to supply major components for accelerators and accelerating systems of all kinds throughout the world.

In addition to this the Campus draws project teams together to work on converting scientific concepts into marketable products, and has built up considerable experience in prototyping to enable this.  This can lead to both the creation of spin-out businesses and to attracting businesses to locate on campus in order to research, develop and market the resulting products.

One example of this is CXR Ltd (Instrumentation), the research subsidiary of Rapiscan Systems - manufacturers of airport security scanners, whose initial interaction with the Daresbury Laboratory was for cleaning of Ultra High Vacuum Components with SuperClean. The Cockcroft Institute is also initiating interactions with Rapiscan Systems for compact imaging technologies towards health and security applications using accelerator, laser, x-ray and THz technologies.