Innovate UK has announced a £19.5 million award to the Foundation Industries Sustainability Consortium (FISC)

The award will support the scale-up of sustainable technologies for the foundation industries.

This award is to run the Economic Material Innovation for Sustainable and Efficient use of Resources (ECONOMISER) programme.

The programme will develop a network of scale-up centres to support industry and academic engagement in innovation in:

• carbon reduction

• process improvement

• product development

£50 billion to the UK economy

The foundation industries comprise the following sectors:

• glass

• cement

• paper

• metal

• ceramic

• chemical

They contribute over £50 billion to the UK economy and produce 75% of all the material on the planet. Read more

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