Food-grade investment sees CPI and Tees Valley lead the way in novel food innovation

The new investment positions CPI and the Tees Valley as global leaders in biomanufacturing and food innovation and will create new food products and high-value jobs in the region.

LYVA Labs secures £3.2m to support city region start-ups and innovators

The £3.2m is given to LYVA Labs to support start-ups and innovators in the Liverpool City Region.

The UK Agri-Tech centres react to role of innovation set out in UK Government Food Strategy

The UK Government Food Strategy, sets out plans for supporting secure, resilient and sustainable food production and supply

Aquaculture Innovation Centre opens on Scotland’s Argyll coast

The facility is scaled and configured to bridge gaps identified by industry, including testing of instrumentation and validation of operational welfare

A Welsh blueprint to boost productivity and cut emissions

The aim is to create a blueprint for future factories improving business resilience, productivity and sustainability while increasing the capacity for collaborative research with industry.

BRE joins forces with industry leaders to develop UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard

The Standard will cover both new and existing buildings and will set out performance targets addressing operational energy and embodied carbon emissions

Open access Digital Twins of fields to accelerate innovation

Fields of the World, an open access dataset containing digital twins of international fields, has been launched on the Agrifood Data Marketplace

AMRC Factory+: a connected, smart factory driven by data

Factory+ is an open-access digital architecture for manufacturing shop floors that simplifies the way data can be handled across an organisation.

Space – the final frontier for Yorkshire manufacturers?

In partnership with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Space Hub Yorkshire (SHY)

Zero Emission Flight Infrastructure Demonstrations

Over the course of 6 months, Connected Places Catapult commissioned three demonstrations to understand the readiness of hydrogen and battery electric technologies in airport environments.