Business activities, type and size of organisation
TWI is one of Europe’s largest independent research and technology organisations. Based at Abington near Cambridge since 1946, TWI provides those in industry with technical support in welding, NDT and associated material joining technologies. TWI has a total staff of over 550 with over 430 being technically qualified and skilled staff. TWI has an annual sales turnover of €57 million. TWI has over 3000 world wide industrial members across a range of industries that includes oil and gas offshore exploration. TWI is currently participating in 40 European projects (taking the lead in 25) with 24 of those being in the NDT field (taking the lead in 20). The projects include CRAFT, STREP and large integrated projects. TWI has two main NDT Research Centres based at Abington, Cambridge and Port Talbot, South Wales. These centres cover the broad spectrum of NDT development for single client contracts, joint industry sponsored projects, UK DTI projects and EC funded projects.
TWI has been involved in over 70 European projects, 45 of which have been project coordinated by TWI. Many of these have been in the field of NDT development including projects relating to NDT development on in the oil and gas offshore sub-sea sector (e.g. Framework 6 Flexible Riser Test project and FP6 Steel Catenary Riser Inspection project).
Website: www.twi.co.uk