Seasons Wishes

With the closing of another exciting year for the EM Centre, we have finally installed the 3rd new JEOL electron microscope, a 1400 TEM. We are very much looking forward to inviting you to come and visit to take a look at its capabilities. With further plans to increase our capabilties, next year looks to be just as exciting. So continue to visit the website for updates and notifications of events.

So this just leaves me to thank everyone for their support and to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,

from all the team at the EM Centre.

Automated Mineralogy Analysis at Plymouth EMC

On the 28th November, Oxford Instruments and the EMC are holding a demonstration of Oxford's new automated mineral identification and analysis software. With an overview in the morning and a practical demonstration on the new Electron Microscopes at Plymouth, INCA Mineral aims to demonstrate how the rapid automated software can identify, quanitfy, determine liberation amounts and particle sizes in geological samples.

For registration details, invite and programme for the day, please follow the relevant link.
If you are a Plymouth academic or researcher, please find details of a separate session being held on the morning of the 29th November by following the link here.

Please check back regularly for news of other forthcoming events. We will soon be announcing a day specifically aimed at the frozenn food and ice cream industry schedualed for the end of January 2013.

For further information or help, please email emc@plymouth.ac.uk, or ring the Enterprise Solutions Gateway on 0800 052 5600, and ask to speak to someone in the Electron Microscopy Centre.

Supporting Manufacturing in the South West MAS workshop

The EM centre is exhibiting at the MAS South West workshop 'Supporting Manufacturing in the South West' being held at Plymouth University on 8th November.

The half-day interactive workshop will identify all the support which exists for manufacturers and how it can be accessed. If you are a manufacturer, or you provide advice for manufacturers in any way, then this workshop will enable you to find out:

• What funding is available
• How to access finance
• How to up-skill your workforce
• Apprenticeships: The benefits and support
• What resources Universities/Colleges can offer
• What membership organisations can do to help

For more details, click here to go to the MAS events webpage.

EMC Tour after iNet Breakfast meeting

On the 19th October, Plymouth plays host to the Microelectronics iNet. The breakfast meeting is being held to promote and explain the new funding competition for regional SME's. Afterwards there be the opportunity to tour the Electron Microscopy Centre to see how the facility can help support projects.

Core areas in microelectronics, phontonics and digital communications that the iNet is looking to support include

• Power management, and energy efficient sustainable technology
• Smart grids
• Transport, including marine
• Healthcare, wellbeing and medical electronics
• Smart communities
• Test and verification
• Industrial, instrumentation
• M2M communications
• Security

For more information or to book a place please follow the link.

Invitation MTI'12 - Torquay's Riveria Centre

Come and meet the EM Centre at the MTI exhibition on Stand 16 at the Manufacturing, Technology and Innovation Conference at the Riveria Centre on the 18th October. Places are Free to delegates so book your place by registering here.
Find out about free support from centre to qualifying SME's.

EM Centre exhbiting at MTI 2012

Come and visit us on stand 16 at MTI 2012, Riveria Centre, Torquay on18th October. Free to delegates, find out about High Tech company's in and around Torbay. Extend your supply chain and networks. With sectors covering engineering, electronics, IT, manufacturing and supporting industries, find out how Electron Microscopy can be used to help your process, quality and field return issues. So come and speak to us on stand 16 - Plymouth University.

We are also presenting a seminar on knowledge transfer, exchange and innovation with  Enterprise Solution's Sally Sharpe in the afternoon.

Register for your free place here. Follow #MTI12 for the latest news and updates.

EM Centre at the Plymouth Marine Business Expo

The centre joined other Plymouth organisations on the Hoe on the 12th September to promote the city as a vibrant and innovative business centre, with the Marine Industry forming the back drop for some highly successful enterprises.

Local business leaders, public sector and university representatives all presented on a variety of subjects, with the keynote talk being given by Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade and Investment.

All this took place in the stunning location of the graduation marquees on the Hoe.

Industrial Open Day attracts over 15 local businesses

On the 28th June 2012, the Electron Microscopy Centre opened its doors to local industry in the engineering and micro-electronics sectors.

As well as a short technical seminar from technique experts, delegates were given the opportunity to look at their own samples on the day, to find out directly how the technology could help them in their industrial sector.

More open days are being planned to cover composites, cryogenic (frozen) applications and others. Please check back regularly for updates.

Postponed - Biomedical Applications Event

Due to unforseen circumstance we are cancelling the event 'Biomedical Applications of Electron Microscopy' schedualed for the 29th June 2012. Please accept our sincere aplogies.

Continue to revisit this site regularly for information on the new date, or email
emc@plymouth.ac.uk subject: mailing list, to be added to the mailing list to be informed of future events.

UPDATE - Programmes now available for the June 2012 Open Days

Programmes are now available for Improving Production Yields and Biomedical Applications of Electron Microscopy by following the links. Places are filling fast for the events in June 2012, so please be sure to register soon to secure your FREE place.

Please follow the link for registration.

Postponed - Biomedical Applications of Electron Microscopy

Friday June 29th, will see Plymouth's Electron Micrcoscopy Centre introduce its new capabilties and instruments to the biological and medicinal sectors of industry and research. Come and join the team for this FREE event and find out more about how the recent investment by the University, the ERDF and Jeol can be used for your research and development projects.

To keep updated about future events, please keep visiting the website.

Improve your production yields with Electron Microscopy

Improve Your production Yields with Electron Microscopy

28th June 2012, Technology Awareness Day

Come and join us to find out how the incredible levels magnification can help solve many engineering and production issues. Identify sources of contamination, corrosion, material failure causes and raw material quality conformity. The day is free to attend and will include talks from businesses that have used the technology in manufacturing. With prior booking, there is even the chance to look at your sample.

For more information please see our flyer (pdf).
To register please follow this link.