Enabling industrial transformation on national priorities
We offer our insight to support policymakers across a broad range of issues and at every level of government, helping to deliver their ambitions in industrial and regional development.
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Key delivery partner
With world-class regional clusters and the UK’s best manufacturing community, we are well-placed to help policymakers deliver their ambitions in industrial and regional development (eg levelling up).
Industry insight
We work with thousands of industrial partners each year across a broad range of areas. This allows us to better understand the key challenges and opportunities the manufacturing sector faces. We can bring unique insights to your industrial strategy to help deliver more effective policy.
Innovation impact
Our work to commercialise innovative technologies and build clusters of manufacturing excellence delivers benefits to the UK and its regions.
Convening key voices
We operate from a unique position at the junction of business, academia and government. As a result, we convene broad coalitions to provide strategic leadership on local, national and global challenges.
Policy intelligence
We use our position of knowledge and understanding of advanced manufacturing to help shape and deliver UK policy and industrial strategy.
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Industrial partners in 2021/22
Commercial projects in 2021/22
Engagements with academic institutions across the globe in 2021/22
The HVM Catapult works with thousands of companies each year to boost the UK’s manufacturing performance.
We’re helping move cutting-edge research from the UK’s world-leading universities into the commercial market, supporting companies to transform the products they sell, the way they make them and the skills of their workforce.
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Helping solve national and global challenges
Policy insight & intelligence
Our industry and technology insights make us an ideal partner in the development and delivery of national or local policies. By convening industry voices, we help shape policies that secure strong buy-in and produce results.
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Sustainability & net zero
We enable the innovations in technologies, techniques, materials and energy that can have a big impact on reaching net zero.
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Regional development
We are playing our part to distribute investment across the UK, attracting inward investment from multinational companies and developing homegrown companies of all sizes.
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Workforce development
A thriving economy needs an effective system for training new engineers and technicians, and to continually progress the skills of those in the workforce. We are helping to build the foundations for a new UK skills system.
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Digitalisation
Digital technologies are transforming all aspects of modern life. Applying these to manufacturing, we help companies drastically reimagine their production, making significant savings in cost, waste and emissions.
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Improving public health
In the age of global pandemics, maintaining and improving public health is a key national priority. We help healthcare companies to bring effective new products to market and apply that insight in other sectors, supporting our collective health.
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The furniture and fittings industries face unique challenges in a fiercely competitive global market, where there are ever increasing demands for a greater range and complexity of products and services.
We have identified an opportunity to enter a new market and, with the help of Made Smarter, have put data and systems integration at the heart of that solution