The High Value Manufacturing Catapult is the go-to place for manufacturing technology innovation in the UK. Our seven centres, listed below, work across 17 locations covering all parts of country to support manufacturers in over 4,000 projects per year, offering open access to the latest industrial scale equipment, leading expertise and an environment of collaboration between industry, academia and government. We cover the full range of manufacturing technology capabilities, from biologics to...

The MTC was established in 2010 as an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO). Its primary focus is to ensure that great ideas become reality and don’t fall into the manufacturing abyss known as the ‘valley of death’.

It represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and, after four years of planning and a 16-month build, the facility opened at Ansty Park in Coventry at the end of 2011. It exists to prove innovative manufacturing processes and...

The UK High-Field Solid-State NMR Facility is based around a 20 Tesla wide-bore (89 mm) NMR magnet (corresponding to a 1H Larmor frequency of 850 MHz) equipped with a HFXY rf console and wide-range of probes: 14 for magic-angle spinning (MAS) for rotor diameters 0.7 mm (from 2018), 1.0 mm, 1.3 mm, 2.5 mm, 3.2 mm, 4 mm and 7 mm, a static probe and a double rotation (DOR) probe. Nearly all users visit the Facility in person to carry out experiments, with support provided by the Facility Manager...

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is set to reach double pre-industrial levels by about 2050. This increase would be much faster were it not for the uptake of CO2 into the upper ocean and the terrestrial biosphere. Currently 2-3 of every 10 molecules of CO2 released by human activity is taken up into existing terrestrial ecosystems. The degree to which this uptake will continue as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase, is not settled. Many of the most important processes...

What it does Research on dairy cow nutrition, behaviour, welfare, health, housing, and metabolism. Research/innovation goals and objective To improve dairy cow health, welfare, product quality, and farm profitability. Why it is important Dairy farming is the largest single output of UK agriculture, with 1.9 million dairy cows and 13,200 businesses. The Dairy Cow Research Unit allows research to be undertaken into improving housing, diet, animal health, welfare, metabolism, and nutrition.

The Living Lab is a safe and affordable, real-world test environment for trialling new energy products, services and business models, with the aim of de-risking and scaling innovations for market.

With 150+ digitally connected smart-homes, the Living Lab is truly open, interoperable and scalable – after undergoing significant upgrades over six-months in 2020 – including a new digital integration platform.

Innovative businesses can rapidly design, market-test and launch smart energy...

The laboratory is used for pure and applied entomology research by undergraduate and postgraduate researchers as well as university staff and visiting researchers. Much of the work completed in the laboratory relates to work completed as part of the Centre for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM). As such the laboratory is as a centre for entomology research focusing on crop protection both in the UK and internationally. As part of CIPM this facility supports and collaborates with researchers in...

to what it does to research/innovation goals and objectives This hub incorporates the universities of Birmingham, Glasgow , Nottingham, Southampton, Strathclyde, and Sussex. It aims to develop a range of quantum sensor and measurement technologies that are ready for commercialisation by UK businesses. In addition it trains people working within the UK quantum technology community, and those that will further build the Quantum Technology eco-system. Our goal is to move fundamental...

What it does: The pilot-scale AD system is a smaller scale (total volume 2m3) commercial mimic of a fully operational AD plant. This scale of technology is ideal for undertaking research and innovation for a wide range of different purposes, for example determining digestion performance and safety of novel feedstocks and AD system additives or the integration of novel technologies for pre- and post-treatment of feedstocks and digestates for nutrient, chemical and water recovery. Operation...

What it does: UKRRIN offers industry access to purpose built world-leading facilities and skills in a range of areas to support research, development and innovation for new technologies and products. The centres are supported by industrial partners to deliver world-leading research from inception to market application for both the UK and global markets. The Centres of Excellence provide the ability to deliver new products and technology to market faster, using advanced purpose-built simulation...