New MTD Project Tests Components' Efficiency at Speed of Light

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New MTD Project Tests Components' Efficiency

at Speed of Light

PR Newswire

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, July 6, 2012

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England

,

July 6, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

The accuracy of a

West Midlands

engineering firm's components will be tested

to the limit after they secured a major contract to supply parts to a facility

similar to the Large Hadron Collider.

Midland Tool and Design is producing the components for The Paul Scherrer

Institute's SwissFEL (Free-Electron Laser) facility, which is designed to create

intense, short flashes of x-ray light and fire them at extremely high speeds

along a 700m tunnel.

Beginning in 2015, the experiments will be similar to those at the Large Hadron

Collider, which fire tiny particles at each other at the speed of light in an

attempt to recreate the Big Bang and discover exactly how the universe was

created.

SwissFEL scientists believe their investigations will eventually enable them to

develop better drugs, more efficient energy systems or ultra-fast computers

and data storage devices.

MTD has been asked to manufacture large laminations for magnets which will

be used to focus and intensify the lasers as they travel through a linear

accelerator.

Their MD Darren Booton said: "SwissFEL is a very ambitious project and it's a

coup for us to be involved.

"Our components could help find the answers to some fundamental questions

like how we create environmentally-friendly supplies of energy, and how to

develop drugs to eradicate infectious diseases."

Midland Tool and Design was established in 1969 and specialises in supplying

precision engineering components to a wide range of companies in aerospace,

medical and automotive engineering.

They currently employ 35 people at their headquarters in Tipton,

West

Midlands

.

Further information is available at http://www.mtdltd.co.uk.