Opening of the Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for Aerospace Materials

     (June 30, 2006) NIMS reached a multi-year agreement with Rolls-Royce to undertake research programmes into the development of high-temperature superalloys for use in gas turbine engines. The agreement brings into being The Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for Aerospace Materials, which is based at NIMS' Sengen-Site in Tsukuba. It was celebrated by an opening at Tsukuba, followed by a reception in Tokyo.