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Three start-up companies have been awarded free access to the research facilities and expertise at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory that will enable them to create new products in the energy and medical fields.

PV Glaze, Bisn and Chris Underwood are all winners in a challenge run by STFC’s Futures team, which seeks to exploit scientific research to find solutions to the government’s grand challenges in energy, environment, healthcare and security.

The I-TAC Futures Challenge was aimed directly at any UK company involved in research and development within the global grand challenge areas. Each winner has received six-months free access to their own dedicated, fully equipped laboratory at Daresbury’s Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC).

I-TAC manager Dr Martin Morlidge said: ‘When choosing the winners, we were specifically looking for how well their businesses and ideas fit in with STFC’s core challenges in environment, energy and healthcare, and also how STFC can add real value to these companies.’

Bisn is a newly formed technical service company serving the oil and gas industry. At I-TAC Bisn will be carrying out a study on enhanced oil recovery with a view to enabling better access to oil reserves that have previously been abandoned and facilitating the extraction of oil from them.

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