Our case studies provide snapshots from the exciting work we’re doing with businesses, researchers, and government across the UK.
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Intelligent handling system design and integration
MTC developed an AI driven sorting system for separating intermediate and low-level nuclear decommissioning waste.
10 April 2025
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Clever machine monitoring cuts costs by £78,000
Alucast utilised WMG's Manufacturing Energy Toolkit, which was launched to help manufacturers identify practical ways to reduce energy usage and quickly got onboard.
10 April 2025
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Smart production line unlocks more jobs and new contracts
LISI AEROSPACE provisionally secured additional funding for two more production lines by 2027.
30 March 2025
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Teaching the skills for low-carbon technologies
Teaching college students how renewables and green technology works.
30 March 2025
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The HVM Catapult continues to be at the forefront of technical skills development in the UK, working as part of the Workforce Foresighting Hub.
8 December 2023
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Hydrogen Innovation Initiative
Accelerating the UK’s hydrogen vision with the Hydrogen Innovation Initiative
8 December 2023
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Digital Engineering Technology and Innovation
Through DETI, the NCC helped businesses address common challenges to digital transformation, with 32 projects creating or safeguarding 87 jobs
6 February 2023
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Developing the skills system for emerging technologies
HVM Catapult is leading work to create a better technical skills system for manufacturing and many other key sectors in the UK
6 February 2023
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Revolutionising the rail industry with augmented reality
The system monitors real-time performance of station services, allowing swift detection and repair of faults within the station’s lifts, escalators and travelators, as well as signalling equipment along the high-speed line.
3 February 2022
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Immersive tech trains global health heroes from their homes
Immersive technology has been used to help train surgeons who faced reduced learning opportunities due to COVID-19 restrictions.
3 February 2022
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Helping construction reopen safely
Social distancing is key to reopening sections of the economy that have needed to close during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the group nature of the work, social distancing has particularly hit the UK construction sector, meaning many sites have been unable to operate normally.
3 February 2022
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Leading the Ventilator Challenge
On the 16th of March 2020, the Government asked UK industry to support the NHS in its fight against COVID-19. The VentilatorChallengeUK (VCUK) Consortium, led by the HVM Catapult’s outgoing CEO Dick Elsy and made up of more than 33 businesses from the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors, came together at speed to build medical ventilators.
3 February 2022
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