Prosperity through productivity.
Ingenuity through innovation.
Our role at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult is to support economic growth by helping the UK’s manufacturing industry be innovative, productive and competitive.
Our strategic priorities
Enhancing the UK’s sustainability and resilience through industry
Net zero: industrial sustainability
Investing in systems change, including design, materials, digital and AI.
Healthy living
Driving engineering biology, agritech and health tech development and scale up.
Net zero: clean energy transition
Creating UK clean energy supply chains: electrification, wind, hydrogen and nuclear.
National security capability
Advancing defence and security product design, engineering and manufacturing.
Landscape transformation
Access to finance, skills and workforce, supply chain, SME support and place.
The UK industrial landscape is constantly evolving
New technology and processes promise to revolutionise the way we make products, while consumer demands are changing, with an increasing focus on goods that are sustainably manufactured and protect our planet.
We also need to build our national resilience on everything from energy to pharmaceuticals.
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s priority programme areas will support national efforts to manage these challenges by helping industry evolve too. Supported by Innovate UK we work with our partners to tackle the big issues facing UK manufacturing.
Our six innovation centres, located nationwide, are the hubs for our expertise and technology. They bring together more than 3,500 experts across a range of disciplines to help individual businesses and supply chains compete and grow in domestic and global markets.