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Dr. Ben Blackham is an experienced process and project engineer currently working at UKBIC since June 2022, overseeing the electrode coating line for battery manufacturing in the automotive electrification sector. Prior to this role, Dr. Blackham served as a project manager at WMG, University of Warwick, managing multiple projects across various directorates from December 2021 to June 2022. Dr. Blackham has also held positions as a manufacturing engineer at The High Temperature Research Centre and as an advanced research engineer at The Manufacturing Technology Centre Limited, where project management spanned multiple industries, including aerospace. Early career experience includes roles at Sandvik Machining Solutions, focusing on research and development in extrusion feedstock optimization and product development. Dr. Blackham holds an EngD in Materials Science and Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Birmingham.
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The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) is a pioneering concept in the race to develop battery technology for the transition to a greener future. 🔋🌍 What we do: Our unique facility provides the missing link between battery technology, which has proved promising at laboratory or prototype scale, and successful mass production. Based in Coventry, our publicly-funded battery product development facility welcomes manufacturers, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators, and can be accessed by any organisation with existing or new battery technology – if that technology will bring green jobs and prosperity to the UK. UKBIC is a key part of the Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC), a Government programme to fast track the development of cost-effective, high-performance, durable, safe, low-weight and recyclable batteries. Funding: In addition to funding from the Faraday Battery Challenge through UK Research and Innovation and the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, we are also part-funded through the West Midlands Combined Authority. The project has been delivered through a consortium of Coventry City Council, Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership and WMG, at the University of Warwick. UKBIC was created in 2018 following a competition led by the Advanced Propulsion Centre with support from Innovate UK. Want more information?: Contact us at 📩 info@ukbic.co.uk or check out our website 👇