Transforming UK industry through innovation

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We are a strategic research and innovation hub for industry, commercialising the UK’s most advanced manufacturing ideas.

Our centres help businesses to transform the products they sell, the way they make them and the skills of their workforce to remain competitive in a global marketplace.

The publication of the Modern Industrial Strategy is a pivotal step towards transforming the UK into an industrial powerhouse.

The High Value Manufacturing Catapult has a proven track record of turning policy into progress, investing more than £1 billion in a nationwide network of research and development facilities.

We now have the opportunity to go further and faster, scaling our impact in the regions in which we operate and deepening our commitment to driving national economic growth.

As partners to government we have helped shape the strategy and the advanced manufacturing sector plan. We now look forward to supporting delivery to ensure the UK has the people, the places and the potential to be a net zero manufacturing superpower.

Our strategic priorities

Enhancing the UK’s sustainability and resilience through industry

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Net zero: industrial sustainability

Investing in systems change, including design, materials, digital and AI.

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Healthy living

Driving engineering biology, agritech and health tech development and scale up.

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Net zero: clean energy transition

Creating UK clean energy supply chains: electrification, wind, hydrogen and nuclear.

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National security capability

Advancing defence and security product design, engineering and manufacturing.

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Landscape transformation

Access to finance, skills and workforce, supply chain, SME support and place.

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Our impact

3,700+

of the UK’s best engineers, scientists and technicians

3,000+

SME businesses transformed each year

30,000+

manufacturing business supported since 2011

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High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres

Through our centres, we have capabilities which span basic raw materials through to high integrity product assembly processes.

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We can help you to transform your products, the way you make them and the skills of your workforce. Contact us to find out more.

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