VANCOUVER, B.C., January 25, 2012 -- We are delighted to announce that the Government of Canada has funded The Composites Research Network (CRN) at The University of British Columbia. The Director and Associate Director of this exciting new venture are respectively Anoush Poursartip and Goran Fernlund, who are the founders of Convergent Manufacturing Technologies.

The pan western Composites Research Network (CRN) is a major new initiative to support the transition of composites design and manufacturing capability, in the form of knowledge based best practice documents, to the industrial base in British Columbia and Western Canada. Working closely with a number of organizations across the west, the CRN will bridge the divide between the strengths of academic research and the needs of industrial practice. A state of the art facility with a wide range of design, manufacturing, and testing equipment and resources will support the activities of the CRN team across the west.

Read more at the UBC Composites Group site.