{"id":81748,"date":"2017-06-21T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1d31d0309fd4bf7342b70fb9cef3f19a"},"modified":"2017-06-21T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T10:49:08","slug":"news-story-15-million-for-49-manufacturing-and-materials-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81748","title":{"rendered":"News story: \u00a315 million for 49 manufacturing and materials innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The 49 winning projects &#8211; involving 81 companies &#8211; have been awarded in the latest round of our industry sector competition.<\/p>\n<p>To be successful, companies had to focus on identified technical or commercial challenges. Their solutions should lead to increased productivity, competitiveness and growth for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"funded-projects\">Funded projects<\/h2>\n<p>Examples of the projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.branscan.com\/\">Branscan Ltd<\/a>, which is using intelligent sensors to detect contaminants in food processing, making it easier to trace food and improve the quality<\/li>\n<li>\n<a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawwater.com\/\">Rawwater Engineering<\/a>, which is developing an advanced bismuth alloy that can be used to plug oil and gas wells at the end of their lives. This is an alternative to currently-used cement plugs, which have issues relating to sealing integrity, a short lifespan and are high cost<\/li>\n<li>Sweet Perspex, a joint project that is developing a new bioprocess to manufacture the basic materials for acrylic production. This should provide more sustainable, bio-based materials for safe use in everyday applications such as screens for phones, laptops and TVs<\/li>\n<li>UltraWELD, a project consortium of 5 companies, is developing ultrafast laser processes to join dissimilar materials in the manufacture of complex electro-optic devices and OLED (organic light-emitting diode) lighting. This is an alternative bonding technique that will improve device sealing and integrity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/innovate-uk-funding-competition-winners-2017\">See the full list of funded projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Simon Edmonds, Director &#8211; Manufacturing and Materials, Innovate UK, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The quality of the projects funded is excellent, and demonstrates the appetite among manufacturing and materials businesses within the UK to innovate and grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I urge those businesses who might be interested in our funding opportunities in manufacturing and materials to look at our next \u00a315 million competition, which is currently open for applications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/6\/overview\">Apply for the latest round of manufacturing and materials funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-manufacturing-and-materials\">Find out more about our work in the sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"an-industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-activity\">An Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund activity<\/h2>\n<p>Manufacturing and materials will be supported through the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/business-secretary-announces-industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-investments\">first 6 areas to be announced<\/a>, challenges include batteries for clean and flexible energy storage, self-driving vehicles and manufacturing and materials of the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Visit our collection page on the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK companies spearheading the cutting-edge in manufacturing and materials are to receive a boost from Innovate UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}