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SUSCORP - Technology Strategy Board Funded Project:-

This TSB project will develop new processes, and introduce novel applications for materials that will assist the corporate clothing sector to enhance its competitiveness and reduce its environmental and societal burdens.

The lack of sophisticated disassembly technologies and absence of design protocols for end of life re-use / recovery are acting as barriers to sustainable operation. An estimated 16 million items of corporate clothing that could be reused are either sent for disposal or downgraded to low value mixed fibre recyclates at present. This project will seek to further develop disassembly techniques such that they can be implemented at a commercially relevant scale, quality and cost. 

C-Tech Innovation & Lancaster University are the delivery partners for the Northwest Eco-Innovation Programme, a three year business support programme funded (€4.3 million) by the North West Development Agency, the regional Government office for North West England.

The Northwest eco-innovation programme will assist organisations to harness their creativity to generate improvements in products, processes or systems which have a positive impact on company growth, turnover, and the environment. For further details click here.

C-Tech Bolsters Consultancy Arm 

C-Tech has recently increased its innovation and business consultancy capability as Justin Wrench has joined from Mouchel. Justin has worked on anything from financial and performance management systems, to mobilising large public sector partnerships. his specialist interests include project and programme management, business excellence, strategic management and organisational development.

Energy Savings from Microwave-enhanced Chemical Reactions

Microwave-enhanced chemistry has been used for a number of years by laboratory chemists, particularly in pharmaceutical discovery, to speed up chemical reactions. To date, the technology has been capable of producing only milligrams or, at most, a few grams of material. The Carbon Trust has targeted this ground-breaking project & awarded C-Tech a grant of £220,000 to demonstrate the potential of energy efficiency for a range of chemical reactions. C-Tech Innovation's expertise in microwave engineering will build and test a microwave-heated, continuous flow, laboratory system that is capable of producing kilograms of material per day. A key requirement of the reactor design is its scalability so that it can form the basis of industrial units that are capable of producing 100s of kilos (or tonnes) per day.

Advanced Fermentation Process for the Production of Bio-Butanol

The £560,000 project, BUTAFUEL, which has received an investment of £250,000 from the Technology Strategy Board, will speed up the development of an advanced fermentation process for the production of bio-butanol, a renewable liquid biofuel for transporation.

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