Transforming Foundation Industries

🚀Are you ready for for MaDE Hackathons 2024?   Are you a student or recent graduate in Architecture, Engineering, Materials or Design aged 18-28? Join us for the Advanced Engineering Hackathon on 30-31 October!     Students will work in teams to develop concepts for a “House of the Future”, inspired by digital manufacturing and other emerging technologies at the Advanced Engineering Show. On day two, they will move to MarchantCain, designers and builders of complex mechatronic components for automotive brands such as Bentley and Lotus.     🗓️ Event details:  30th October – NEC, Birmingham  31st October – MarchantCain, Coventry     Plus many prizes to be won!    #Hackathon #Engineering #Design #Architecture #Innovation  

📈 First Graphene Limited (ASX: FGR) supply production scale volumes of high quality graphene platelets. By using this graphene additive in cement to strengthen it, less cement is required overall and the final product has lower embodied CO2. With funding from UKRI’s Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, EPSRC and ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council, First Graphene have been able to connect with organisations in need of low carbon materials, taking it from lab scale to industrial scale application. 💡This project allowed a trial with Breedon Group plc Hope Works plant, which produces an excess of 2 million tonnes of cement a year! Learn more about First Graphene in the video below 👇 #FoundationIndustries #Cement #Graphene #LowCarbon  https://lnkd.in/ersKy2h9

Yesterday I delivered my latest LEGO model commission to Glass Futures in St.Helens. The model is going to be taken to the glasstec – International Trade Fair .The model is of the new experimental glass furnace at Glass Futures which will support research and inovation to help decarbonise the glass industry. Thanks to David Hughes for inviting me to design and build a really interesting and unique project. #lego #commission #modelbuilder #tradeshow

⚙️ADAPTAVATE has been founded to completely rethink the construction materials of the future⚙️  ADAPTAVATE ’s project team are decarbonising construction by creating low-carbon, carbon-negative building products that can be deployed anywhere in the world. Funding from UKRI’s Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, EPSRC and ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council, supported the expansion and growth of Adaptavate, advancing the creation of a lower carbon alternative to plasterboard, the third most used building material in the world. Discover more in the video below! #FoundatonIndustries #Construction #Decarbonisation #LowCarbon https://lnkd.in/g2qrmY3J

Don’t miss out on the WINFI Mentoring Programme   🚨Applications close 13 October 2024 🚨   UKRI Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, EPSRC and ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council is working with STEMAZING to provide a unique mentoring programme for the foundation industries.   The mentoring programme is designed to boost career growth, confidence and networking for women and allies in the foundation industries. We’re seeking mentors and mentees to help tackle gender imbalances in leadership roles.   👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ePCSEaQD   #FoundationIndustries #FutureLeaders #Gender #Equality #Mentor

The EU has set an ambitious goal for Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. For energy-intensive industries, such as the foundation industries, many of the tools needed for such a significant reduction are still at an earlier stage of industrial or commercial development. Projects through Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge have been developing new and cross-cutting technologies to transform existing #materials and #manufacturing value chains and creating new ones. Our #decarbonisation challenges are consistent across the globe so it's important we prepare our communities now to uplink into Horizon Europe. This event was the first of its kind! Thank you to all the key people that made this happen 👏🏽 🌎Anshumaan Krishnan Ayyangar MIET - Horizon National Contact Point for Materials 🌱 Nuray Tanis - Innovate UK Business Growth 🇪🇺 Monika Dunkel - Innovate UK Business Growth / Enterprise Europe Network 🏭 Abishek Ramesh (CEng, MBA, MRAeS) - High Value Manufacturing Catapult

🌱Sustainable Future for the UK Chemicals Industry The chemicals industry is vital yet carbon-intensive, relying on fossil fuels for both energy and feedstock. Innovate UK, in collaboration with industry leaders, has set a Sustainable Carbon Ambition. It aims to double economic output and source 80% of carbon from sustainable, non-virgin sources by 2050. The chemicals industry is working with stakeholders and Government to: ● Protect key assets while reducing environmental impacts ● Invest in sustainable biomass, carbon capture, and recycling ● Foster collaboration between industry, academia, and investors This shift will create thousands of skilled jobs and drive regional growth. Let's innovate for a greener future! 👉 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eykaWg4a #FoundationIndustries #Chemicals #Innovation #Collaboration #Sustainability 

Exciting news! We have partnered with STEMAZING to launch the WINFI Mentoring Programme for women & allies in foundation industries.   In support of the UK’s clean growth and net zero goals, this scheme is designed to boost career confidence and strengthen and address gender imbalances in leadership networks industry wide.   🔓Open to professionals and students in the foundation industries   📅 Apply by 13 October 2024 - https://lnkd.in/eNwnRVPt   Register for our Q&A on 3 October here: https://lnkd.in/eMwkmVU2   #FoundationIndustries #FutureLeaders #CareerGrowth #Gender #Equality 

We are excited to announce the groundbreaking projects funded through the Innovate UK Contracts for Innovation (formerly SBRI) competition towards decarbonising concrete. Seven projects have been awarded a total of £3.2 million to develop and demonstrate lower carbon concrete solutions. The projects include:  - Development of calcined clay, led by CEMCOR Ltd  - New cementitious from EAF byproducts, led by CocoonCarbon  Limited - Repurposing of excavation waste clay, led by Skanska  - Combining Micronized Limestone and Graphene, led by CEMEX UK  - Supporting Ecocem technology, led by John Sisk & Son Ltd  - implementation of LowCast geopolymer cement technology, led by EFC Green Concrete  Technology Ltd - Development of recycled concrete fines, led by Materials Processing Institute Read more about the projects: https://ow.ly/CjyJ50Tv4sP #FoundationIndustries #LowCarbon #Collaboration #Innovation #Funding

"It really proved invaluable to Parkinson-Spencer Refractories Ltd (PSR)” - Simon Parkinson, Managing Director PSR is a manufacturer of refractory materials which are high temperature ceramics used by the global glass industry. This process is energy intensive and requires an exhaustive amount of energy and heat in production. 🔓  With funding from UKRI’s Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council and EPSRC, the project found new innovative ways to reduce these temperatures. With support from research institutions and universities, the team successfully used additives in the firing process to decrease temperatures. This technology can save up to 15% of PSR’s energy usage. For the wider ceramics industry, it has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 5 megatons a year! ⬇️ Hear from PSR’s Simon Parkinson in the video below ⬇️ #FoundationIndustries #Ceramics #Glass #Innovation #Funding