Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

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A conference dubbed the ‘Olympics of Metal Forming’ - the International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity (ICTP) - was hosted by the Department of Engineering in September 2017. An opening theatrical performance, presented by actor Sir Tony Robinson, celebrated metal forming in the UK and was based on a book by Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment, and chairman of ICTP 2017: eng.cam.ac.uk/news/creating-legacy-cambridge-hosts-world-s-leading-conference-shaping-metal