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Published on: 4/10/2006
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Ken Dueck, Enterprise Hub Director at IWEP explained, "Composites IQ is a unique offering in that it is designed as a bridge between business know-how and university, research and other institutional knowledge."He continued," Composites IQ is designed as a business-focused platform for discussion and commercial development.There are pockets of specialist knowledge across Europe and Composites IQ has been developed to join these together to help develop the industry as a whole.For example, the Isle of Wight alone is well known internationally for its Composites work in the automobile, aerospace, marine and environmental industries and it has over a decade of intelligence to share, with global leaders such as GKN, Gurit (formally SP Systems) and Vestas Blades UK based on the Island."
Ken Dueck finished by saying, "Composites IQ achieves something that has been missing in the composites world for some time now, that is a working, commercially-orientated platform for communication between business, academia, research institutions, manufacturers and even business growth support organisations.In addition it is pan-European, pulling together the vast knowledge retained across the member states."He added, "Simply put, if a business needs a solution to a composites manufacturing problem, access to research skills, testing equipment, rapid prototyping services or even information on business support or finance for research and growth then all it need do is refer to Composites IQ where expert help will be at hand".