Reducing your electricity bills

A recent Materials KTN presentation described technology for reducing impedance and improving current flow in electrical circuits. It is available in UK, as a product suitable for industrial energy users, and seems to have sound customer testimonials.

Further information available [...]

Maximising the value of your Intellectual property

A recent Materials KTN presentation offered a method for identifying and recording “intellectual capital” (i.e. more than patents and trademarks and including intangible items).
A case study showed how composites technology plus telemetry from F1 motor racing had combined in a lucrative opportunity supplying lockable manhole covers for the London Olympics.

Contact details available from [...]

COSHH Risk Assessments

COSHH365 is a software and Internet wizard to help companies with COSHH risk assessments. It is not a substitute for the judgement of a health & safety manager, but seems to offer a considerable lifting of the administrative burdens of that post. It also prepares consistent and visually arresting documents. Notably it [...]

4606 Solvent Separation

A company contemplating solvent separation and recovery project seeks SME partner (ideally in the North West) to help develop [...]

4605 Catalysts

Presenter at TSB Collaboration Nation event makes improved battery electrodes, using waste titanium from aerospace industry. Needs “help [...]

4604 Resin Manufacture

Speaker at TSB Collaboration Nation event uses furan biocomposite to replace GRP. They want to meet [...]

4603 chemicals offered

Surplus materials available:
150 kg hexamethyl disilazane
3000 kg methyltriacetoxysilane
Contact SORIS [...]

4602 Biorefining

Japanese company seeks (through British Embassy and CIA) start-up biorefining companies in UK (preferably producing small molecules from biomass). Contact SORIS for [...]

Technology Strategy Board Collaboration Nation

TSB held a showcase event in London on 30 March including case studies and 2-minute innovation pitches to stimulate interactions and partnerships between SMEs. [The sub-text was that UK economy desperately needs good, money-making ideas. This event provided a context in which such ideas might be sparked.]

Some of the presentations alluded to problems of [...]

4601 New Catalyst (Chiral Amines)

UK university offers a new (organic) catalyst for chiral amines. Catalyst is effective at substantially lower concentrations than existing catalysts. Scale-up demonstrations currently in hand. IP is protected (and backed by Yorkshire Forward). Users, customers (and possibly) partners [...]