Titanium Technologies NZ (TiTeNZ) has won the AJ Park Commercialisation Collaboration Award at the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation awards.
The company creates titanium alloy products that have applications in the defence industry and the yachting industry. It is the result of collaboration between Waikato and Auckland universities, crown-owned research institutes Callaghan Innovation and GNS Science, the Titanium Industry Development Association, and a number of industry partners.
The Kiwi Innovation Network (KiwiNet) is a consortium of New Zealand universities and crown research institutes that are dedicated to taking a collaborative approach to research commercialisation. The organisation does not carry out research commercialisation itself, instead acting as a focal point for collaboration and co-ordination between TTOs.
One of the company’s key researchers is Peng Cao, associate professor at Auckland University in Chemical and Materials Engineering. His team has been leading the development of metal injection moulding of titanium.
Cao said: “It has been a very exciting project to be involved in and to be given this award was wonderful, we had no idea we would be named the winning team in the collaboration category.”
