Chemicals and Specialities
The Northwest of England is home to the
UK's largest and most extensive cluster of chemical-using
industries, generating in excess of £10 billion in sales and
representing 20% of the entire UK chemical industry. Daresbury's
focus for development is the Knowledge Centre for Materials
Chemistry which was opened in 2009 by John Denham, Secretary of
State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and
builds on the region's existing research strengths and
capabilities.
Daresbury Laboratory has provided
platform technology to the chemicals industry for many years
through the capabilities of the Synchrotron Radiation Source and
SuperSTEM (the world's most resolving
electron microscope) in evaluating and characterising material and
chemical structures. However, in more recent years, this has also
been complemented by the molecular/mesoscale modelling and
simulation capabilities of the Computational Science and
Engineering Department.
The Daresbury SIC Chemicals and
Specialities brochure is available to download.
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