Citation
(2007), "New chief technology officer for NAMTEC", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 54 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.2007.12854dab.014
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
New chief technology officer for NAMTEC
NAMTEC, the National Metals Technology Centre, has appointed Dr Stephen Court as Chief Technology Officer.
Stephen will play a key role in the strategic development of NAMTEC as a provider of technical services to the UK's metals and manufacturing sector. His responsibilities will include the leadership of NAMTEC's technical staff and ensuring the organization delivers the very highest quality in the technical services it provides.
NAMTEC's Chief Executive Alan Partridge said: “Stephen's knowledge and expertise will be valuable in developing our collaborative research with universities and the metals sector. We are involved with many important projects that are designed to increase the competitiveness of local metals and manufacturing companies and we expect Stephen will play a key role in achieving this.”
With over 20 years experience of working in research and development, Stephen will play a significant part in developing NAMTEC's services to the metals and manufacturing sector. His career involves 18 years in the technical department of Aluminium producer Alcan and for the past two as Laboratory Director of Alcan's sister company Novelis' R&D Centre in Neuhausen, Switzerland and as Novelis Inc.'s Chief Scientist. Prior to this, Steve held a number of technical leadership positions within Alcan's R&D labs in Banbury, UK, Kingston, Canada and Neuhausen, Switzerland. He has a strong academic background and experience of establishing partnerships and collaborative research with universities and research institutes throughout the UK, mainland Europe, Canada and the USA.
NAMTEC is the UK's research and skills centre for metals technology and its role is to improve the competitiveness of the UK metals industry. The organization can help with identification of funding sources and identifying partners for collaborative projects in the metals and manufacturing sectors.