Transcript - ASTUTE 2020's collaboration with Hackwood Fabricated Solutions Ltd.

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00:00:00	ASTUTE 2020 (Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies) is a multi-university partnership of five Welsh Higher Education Institutions, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government. ASTUTE 2020 is designed to stimulate growth in the manufacturing sector across Wales, by applying advanced engineering technologies to manufacturing challenges, driving cutting-edge research, development, and innovation.	Instrumental music in the background. ASTUTE 2020 (Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies) logo. Drone footage of Swansea University Bay Campus. ASTUTE 2020 Higher Education Institution Partner logos - Aberystwyth University, Cardiff University, Swansea University, University of South Wales and University of Wales Trinity Saint David. European Regional Development Fund logo. External shots of Cardiff University Main Building and School of Engineering. Cardiff University, School of Engineering building leading onto an ASTUTE 2020 Project Officer looking at a computer screen with computational modelling simulations on it. ASTUTE 2020 project officer looking down a microscope and a Kuka industrial robot moving about in sequence.
00:00:31	Hi, I’m Mike Hackwood from Hackwood Fabricated Solutions. We are a Newport-based company that has over 30 years of experience in the fabrication of steel and plastics products. We supply bespoke fabrications to the construction industry and private sector and manufacture using a wide range of materials to suit our client's needs. The idea for the HDPE (High-Density Poly Ethylene) chambers came a few years ago but obviously, due to COVID, it has been two years still waiting. We’ve seen a massive downturn in turnover in those two years, and I can now say we’ve overly turned a corner.	Instrumental music in the background. Hackwood Fabricated Solutions (HFS) logo shows on the screen. Wide angle shot of HFS Manufacturing facility, including logos and signage. Mike standing outside at an external building site for a piece to camera. ASTUTE 2020 banner and Priory branded dumper truck in the background. HFS Manufacturing facility, including logos and signage. Internal footage of manufacturing facility (tools, vices, steel chamber). Two HFS staff working, including a close shot of a member of staff welding. Mike standing outside at an external building site for a piece to camera. ASTUTE 2020 banner in the background.
00:01:08	Our customers were asking us to consider lowering environmental footprints and helping them with designs for different products. We had a good idea of what we needed to achieve but were uncertain on how to achieve it and demonstrate to our customers it met expecting standards. Our novel support structure is square and rectangular and has additional features like manhole access and inspection pipes. So conventional structural calculations are not suitable. We needed to find a calculation method suitable for our product's specifications.	Internal footage at HFS manufacturing facility. HFS staff members moving a steel frame and then welding the frame. Hackwood logo. Wide screenshot of sunny outdoor landscape from the external building site. HFS branded van packed at the external building site. Footage of plastic HDPE chamber in the ground. Shot over Mike’s shoulder showing him walking down to HDPE chamber on building site. Mike wearing a HI-vis with HFS logo on his back. Inside shot of HDPE chamber with the base of the chamber having special steel inserts fitted for testing equipment to be held in place.
00:01:38	To find a way to use recycled polymers in our new products we had to make sure non-version polymers are appropriate, understand the potential for material degradation and establish how best to process the recycled material. The Hackwood team has an excellent understanding of our needs and we’d pass this on to the ASTUTE team. Together with our combined experience and knowledge, we would be able to deliver a comprehensive and efficient analysis of the HDPE structures.	Mike speaking to Priory contactor and ASTUTE 2020 Technical manager with a digger in the background and a ladder in the HDPE chamber. ASTUTE 2020 project officer in the HDPE Chamber with testing equipment (4 linear transducers (measuring displacement) being held in position by magnetic clamps. Mike and ASTUTE 2020 project officers looking in the HDPE chamber. Close-up shot of Mike giving a piece to the camera. Back of Mike showing HFS logo on Hi-vis vests, speaking to ASTUTE 2020 technical manager. Priory contractors with logos on Hi-vis vests. Computational Simulations images of HDPE chamber of the stresses, quality and static displacement.
00:02:05	We needed to test the validity of the simulation results by installing and testing the underground structure, this is what we have been carrying out on-site today. Due to the lightweight application of the HDPE chambers, the cost is reduced, not only for shipping but time installing onsite. This is a cost-saving right across the board for the client and again with the material being recyclable, it can be recycled once it is used.	Footage of spanner set ASTUTE 2020 project officer, setting up testing equipment (4 linear transducers) within the HDPE chamber. The base of the chamber’s steel inserts with the ASTUTE 2020 project officer fitting the equipment. Digger backing filling HDPE chamber in the ground and then lifting steel top and being placed on top of the chamber.
00:02:32	Collaboration between industry and academia is an extremely powerful way of overcoming complex engineering problems that lie outside a company's scope of capabilities like ours.	Mike and ASTUTE 2020 project Officers moving computer equipment into place. Priory contractors unclipping chains from the steel top. ASTUTE 2020 project officers reviewing computer equipment ready for testing.
00:02:42	Our project with ASTUTE East is a testament to this since we achieved together what we couldn’t have done on our own. The knowledge and engineering skills they applied really assisted us and driven our R&D (Research & Development) capabilities far ahead of where we were before our collaboration which will hopefully future-proof the business if this product now goes from strength to strength it will create a good future for HFS and the employees and hopefully grow the business with new people.	Digger bucket placing pressure on top of HDPE chamber steel top. Then the digger drives on top of the HDPE chamber. Mike and ASTUTE 2020 Project officers reviewing testing results on the computer screen. ASTUTE 2020 project officer taking photos of the HDPE chamber with Mike in the background. Shot of the HDPE chamber in the ground with all the testing equipment (4 linear transducers) set up. Shot of Mike looking into the distance at the HDPE chamber in the ground. Mike standing outside at an external building site for a piece to camera. ASTUTE 2020 banner and Priory branded dumper truck in the background. HFS logo on a van. Close-up shot of mike giving a piece to the camera.
	Instrumental music	ASTUTE 2020 partner logos – Aberystwyth University, Cardiff University, Swansea University, University of South Wales and University of Wales Trinity Saint David. ASTUTE 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund Logo.