Jordan has a clear vision of setting up his own business
Jordan Davison is set to revolutionise his former trade less than two years after being made redundant.
Jordan, 26, from Ryhope, will graduate from BEng Manufacturing Engineering at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday, and has landed a new role as Lead Quality Engineer at TI Automotive Sunderland.
As well as his degree and new job, the young engineer’s research at the University of Sunderland has led to the discovery of a revolutionary use of nanotechnology, which could potentially save businesses millions.
Two years ago Jordan was serving his apprenticeship at Express Engineering in Team Valley, when the economic downturn led to him being made redundant.
Jordan landed a post at Nissan as a Quality Engineer, and decided to return to university to top-up his HNC to a full degree, but his years as a CNC turner never left him, and led to him coming up with a patent to help out his former discipline.
“CNC machines have a glass safety screen which allows you to see all of the tooling and cutting that’s going on inside the machine,” he said.
“But the operator’s view of the inside of the machine is often obscured by the coolant liquid that’s applied to the tool.
Jordan had read about experiments with nanotechnology repellents: “I was really surprised that none of the heavy engineering companies who build these machines had ever thought of using nanotechnology to solve this issue,” he said.
Jordan perfected the nanotechnology coating and tried it out with Sunderland engineering firm local business NSERT, whose scrap quantities went down from five per cent in November 2016 to three per cent in April 2017.
Jordan has now patented his technique for the UK, China and the USA, and is preparing to launch his own company, Nano Nano with the support of the University of Sunderland’s business startup team.