All KnowledgeRICH Success Stories
The arrival of baby Oliver compounded an existing interest in food, health and nutrition and Michael decided to develop his business idea of creating a range of smoothies and fruit juices, sourced from farms in his local community and close to home.
Tesco has removed Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (HVO) from the whole of its own label range and is helping its suppliers to do the same.
With the help of Knowledge RICH C3i has created and patented Super Low Interference Electrical Cable (SLIEC), resulting in a unique approach to cable design.
Peratech contacted KnowledgeRICH, a free business enquiry service that connects businesses to the wealth of expertise and knowledge available through the Yorkshire and Humber region’s Universities.
Carrs is the leading manufacturer of silverware in the UK. The Company has partnered with the Materials Analysis & Research Services CIC to develop new sterling silver alloy compositions.
Design Futures CIC work on three projects to provide the creative industrial design expertise which was not within Brandon Medical's R&D and engineering team.
Ovoproducts.com is an independent on-line company which uses its sales and marketing expertise to bring new and innovative products to the consumer market. They were interested in investigating the domestic use of ozone – O3 - for neutralising pesticides
Koehler Medical is the only UK-based heart valve manufacturing company. Having noted the increasing age profile of heart valve replacement patients, Koehler saw the need to develop a new type of valvular prosthesis.
Ultra Electronics is a group of specialist businesses designing, manufacturing and supporting electronic and electromechanical systems, sub-systems and products for defense, security and aerospace applications worldwide.
McBride is an international company with large manufacturing operations throughout Europe specialising in private label and contract manufacturing of laundry, household cleaning and personal care products.
Firmac is a machine manufacturer specialising in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industries. The company currently has 50% of the home market in automated duct forming machinery, with exports running at 8% of market share.
Taylor Products design, manufacture and distribute a wide range of ancillary equipment for the heating, cooling and process control of plastic injection moulding, extrusion and other industrial processes.
AGT Sciences is an advanced R&D company specialising in hydrogel chemistry to solve a range of life science and non-life science problems.
Metro Technologies makes and supplies SMT (surface mount technology) nozzles used in the manufacture of circuit boards for a vast range of electronic items, including mobile phones and computers. It exports to 47 countries.
Rockware Glass is the UK’s market leader in the design and manufacture of glass containers for the food and beverage industries.
Ionbond are the international leaders in the highest quality thin-film PVD (physical vapour deposition) coatings. As modern technologies demand component parts with specialised surfaces, the market for coatings which impart required properties is growing.
DuPont operates in 70 countries offering a wide range of innovative products – including colour proofing systems which comprise an imaging unit and the consumables that go with it: ink, paper and software.
A partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and a local business has won a prestigious national award for the development of a new heating technology that could help transform the UK’s construction industry.
Motorworks first used the University to help with training a number of its staff in Microsoft Excel and Access. Most of their business systems at that time were stand alone applications in Sage, Access and Excel combined with paper based systems.
Professor Tony Ryan – Director of the Polymer Centre at the University of Sheffield – and Helen Storey – an award-winning British designer – have teamed up to explore ways of using new materials to make consumer products less damaging to the planet.
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of York’s Department of Chemistry and Authentix, a global leader in authentication solutions, won the Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Programme Award, sponsored by the Department of Trade a
If you happen to watch on TV the suffering of riders in the Tour de France (which starts, this year, in London on July 7th), you will almost certainly find yourself asking the question “what on EARTH is going through their minds right now?”
KnowledgeRICH brings together the University of Hull and Northern Paragliding in highly successful collaboration