Yesterday, WMG was pleased to host a visit from George Bastin, Senior Warden and Master-designate of The Ironmongers' Company and former Master Mr Sam Apsley.

The visitors met with members of WMG’s Advanced Steels Processing Research Centre including Professor Sridhar Seetharaman (RAEng/Tata Steel Research Chair in Low Carbon Technologies) and Professor Barbara Shollock (Tata Steel Research Chair in Advanced Characterisation and Coatings) and were interested to understand the innovative research being undertaken in the area of iron and steel manufacturing.

Professor Lord Bhattacharyya met with the visitors for a discussion on the challenges and opportunities in the area of steels and in engineering and manufacturing more broadly.

The visitors also undertook a tour of WMG’s research facilities including lightweighting research across multiple materials areas as well as research in the areas of metrology and product evaluation technologies and how these are applied to the characterisation and understanding of materials including steels.