The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a world-class centre for research into advanced manufacturing technologies used in the aerospace, automotive, medical and other high-value manufacturing sectors.

The AMRC has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and is a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry worldwide.

Combining state of the art technologies with the AMRC’s expertise in...

The Physical Sciences Data-science Service is a National Research Facility which brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields. It provides access to web-based data services are which are freely accessible for academic users from the UK.

Energy House Laboratories consists for 4 laboratories focused on research in domestic energy consumption. This covers issues including, fabric performance, building physics, internal environments, digital (smart meters) and other related technical areas. This has focused on retrofit, but new investment will open this to include new build properties. The team look at the performance of systems, as well as the methodological issues of building performance.

EHL consist of 4 labs: the Salford...

Situated just metres off the coast of Fife, the 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration Turbine (LDT) was acquired by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in 2015 and is the world’s largest and most advanced open access offshore wind turbine dedicated to research and demonstration. Since then, 112 SMEs have accessed the facility for technology development, testing or demonstration, providing an invaluable and unique facility for businesses to innovate, to prove new technologies and find vital...

The Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) demonstrator at the Tyseley Energy Park (TEP), Birmingham, converts bio-waste to energy in an innovative and effective way. The technology, developed by Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Germany, converts waste biomass such as sludge, sewage and solid waste to fuels. The TEP draws together a range of different energy technologies to act as an energy and waste hub for the city of Birmingham, showing how innovative low-carbon energy technologies can be used to support...

Loughborough University have created new test facilities to develop high performance insulation materials and façade systems for improved building energy performance. Innovative building envelope systems can help to reduce building energy loads and generate electricity and heat. Non-concentrating solar thermal collectors are generally available in two forms, flat plate or evacuated tube.

Recently, a third configuration, the evacuated flat plate, has attracted interest due to the enhanced...

CPI acts as a catalyst bringing together academia, businesses, government and investors to translate bright ideas and research into the marketplace. We do this by connecting our customers with the right experts, equipment, facilities, networks, funding and more – joining the dots for effective innovation.

We are a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Established in 2004, our teams tirelessly apply...

MFM is a CAV testbed based in the West Midlands, part of the "CAM Testbed UK" group of facilities. 

Details on the testbed can be found at https://midlandsfuturemobility.co.uk/

The goals of the testbed are to support CAV/CAM developers to cement the UK as one of the best places in the world to develop CAV technologies, addressing and capturing a reported £62Bn market for the UK.

A report by the Automotive Council (known as "GRAVITAS") highlighted 5 years ago the need for enhancement of...

AMRC Cymru was opened in November 2019, backed by a £20m investment from Welsh Government, and is the first High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult centre in Wales.

AMRC Cymru operates a 2,000 square metre open access research area with Airbus the first major tenant with a platform to develop their next generation wing technologies aligned to its ‘Wing of Tomorrow’ programme.

Situated in the Deeside Enterprise Zone the facility will focus on advanced manufacturing sectors including...

The Quantum Technology Centre, based in Lancaster University’s Physics Department, establish a significant technology presence in the Northwest. Our world class facilities include a class 100 and two class 1000 clean rooms housing state-of-the-art nanofabrication equipment. The facilities provide the possibility to run multi-step nanofabrication processes to build electronic, photonic and nanomechanical devices and structures with a feature size as small as 10 nm. It allows processing of metals...