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UK centre set to explore continuous manufacturing

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A new EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing will see researchers and academics work together to develop new continuous manufacturing approaches for products such as medicines, foodstuffs, dyes, pigments and nanomaterials, as an alternative to traditional batch methods.

Led by Strathclyde University’s Prof Alastair Florence, research at the Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in continuous manufacturing and crystallisation will also involve academics from the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Loughborough.

Industrial support is also being provided by GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Fujifilm, British Salt, Croda International, Genzyme, NiTech Solutions, Phoenix Chemicals and Solid Form Solutions.

The centre is part of a £51m investment by the EPSRC in nine new centres officially launched through the UK-wide EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing programme. It has received a grant of £4.9m from the programme and support worth a total of £1.8m is also being contributed by industry, with a further £1m coming from the universities.

It follows the launch of the £89m Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) at Strathclyde, a centre for transforming the way universities, business and industry collaborate to bring competitive advantage to Scotland. The TIC and the new EPSRC centre will work in parallel, forging greater collaboration between academic researchers and industry.

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