Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

Tender description

Our research group at The University of Manchester requires three glove boxes for the safe handling of gram and kilogram quantities of uranic material. These will form part of the capability for the Nuclear Fuel Centre of Excellence (NFCE), an academic facility developing new nuclear fuel materials. The boxes will house a limited amount of equipment for processing material, including a press, automated polisher and slow speed saw and be capable of introducing new equipment in future as required. Our research group requires a precision, instrumented, laboratory sheet-mill, with the ability to produce test pieces with a high quality surface and thickness consistency in 0,7-to 1 cm thick sheet, at least 30 cm wide, and with run out lengths of 2 meters. The focus of our research is to develop the next generation of high value added wrought metal products, therefore the mill must to be capable of rolling a wide range of metal alloys, including Al, Ti, Ni, and steels.