Visit to FASTBLADE and Danfoss - 20th September

A coach will leave at 9am from Sanderson Building, The King's Buildings, Robert Stevenson Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FB on Tuesday 20th September taking us first to Rosyth to visit FASTBLADE - the world's first test facility that uses regenerative hydraulic technology to offer high-quality, low-cost fatigue testing of tidal blades and other composites structures for research and product development. 

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Our coach will then travel to Danfoss Scotland Ltd in Loanhead as well as to their new UK Low-Carbon Innovation Center currently under construction at Shawfair Business Park.  Covering 75,000 square feet, the facility will serve as the Center of Excellence for Danfoss' Digital Displacement Technology. 

  • Located in Edinburgh's Shawfair Business Park, the £25 million Low-Carbon Innovation Center will house Danfoss teams working on next-generation, climate-friendly technologies in hydraulics, digitilization and electrification. 
  • The Low-Carbon Innovation Centre will be the first Danfoss building in the world to be operationally carbon-neutral, marking an important step towards the company's goal to be a carbon-neutral business by 2030. 
  • Danfoss' UK Low-Carbon Innovation Center will be fully operational by the end of 2022. 

 

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The tour aims to return to Sanderson Buiding, The King's Buildings at approximately 3pm. 

FASTBLADE Facility
FASTBLADE Facility
Artist's impression of the innovative new Danfoss centre in Shawfair
Artist's impression of the innovative new Danfoss centre in Shawfair