FUTURE DEFENCE AND SECURITY
Propellant Manufacture
Key capabilities
> Expertise in energetic and reactive materials
Differentiators
> Demonstrated track record with Defence and industry
Key customers > Defence Prime Contractors
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Novel process for manufacturing key materials and propellants for solid rocket motors
Research Group
Solid rocket motors underpin tactical and strategic missile capabilities . Broadly speaking , their propellants are composed of fuel , binder and oxidiser .
Targeting national resilience , this research group is developing new processes for the in-country manufacture of strategic oxidiser materials that would otherwise require importation via vulnerable international supply chains . • 63