Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
On top of its £900 million devolution deal, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has secured more than half a billion pounds in additional funding from government, including £173 million in Transforming Cities Funding which is being used to modernise and improve travel in and around the city region and a share of £300 million to connect Liverpool to the HS2 network, which will also link in to Crossrail for the North.
The investments made in the first three years will deliver 9,000 jobs and 5,500 apprenticeships for local people.
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Knowledge Quarter Liverpool
Materials Innovation Factory (MIF)
A collaboration between the University of Liverpool and Unilever, MIF allows businesses involved in materials chemistry to accelerate product development and gain competitive advantage through smarter, faster and more precise ways of working.
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Digital Innovation Facility (DIF)
A £12.7million investment co-funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Local Growth Funds, in Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter. Providing a new home for world-leading academic research dedicated to maximising the possibilities of emerging technologies.
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Glass Futures
Glass Futures is creating a new glassmaking Pilot Plant facility in St Helens, United Kingdom, to provide a Global Centre of Excellence for sustainable manufacture of glass.
It will have full plant utilities and services, a full-scale Batch Plant, initially a 30 tonnes per day furnace complete with abatement and heat recovery. The glass output can also be processed by an IS machine and cold end container process coating, inspections, and packing line.
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STFC, Daresbury
From the day it opened in 1962, Daresbury Laboratory has pushed the boundaries of modern science. Over 50 years on, it is internationally recognised for world-leading scientific excellence in a diverse variety of fields, from nuclear physics to supercomputing, and its achievements, which consistently deliver impact on a human scale and have inspired scientists, adults and children alike.
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Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)
The MTC was established in 2010 as an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO) with the objective of bridging the gap between academia and industry – often referred to as ‘the valley of death’. It represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and, after four years of planning and a 16 month build, the facility opened at Ansty Park in Coventry at the end of 2011 with rapid growth since then.
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