The Scarborough-based firm has commissioned Catalin Fotea to embark on a three-year research project, which it hopes will harness new technologies for future product development.
"We hope that at the end of the three years, we will have a marketable product," said Duraweld print department manager Terry Cooke.
The firm was tight-lipped on what it hopes will emerge from the research, but the project is being co-ordinated at the university by David Lacey, reader of organic chemistry and a specialist in liquid crystals, sensors and membranes and optoelectronic materials.
