Aquasium seeks partners

Cambridge-based technology investor Aquasium Technology is seeking strategic partners to grow its electron beam technology business.

Aquasium holds a portfolio of three next generation electron beam technologies that could be used in the aerospace, power generation, renewable energy and biomedical industries.

Aquasium is backed by leading UK technology venture capital firm, Foresight Group and comprises two divisions. The first, Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), is a global leader in the design, manufacture and support of vacuum furnaces and electron beam welders based in Cambridge. The other is US-based EBTEC Corporation, a provider of high-energy materials processing and specialist manufacturing services to aerospace, power generation, defence and medical device customers.

Since acquiring CVE in 2001 and EBTEC in 2005, Aquasium has worked closely with TWI (formerly The Welding Institute), the world leader in materials joining and surface engineering, to develop and commercialise a portfolio of next generation electron beam technologies.