Firm wins share of £1m hand-out

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A WARRINGTON-based firm is one of 10 North West companies to have accessed almost £1m in funding thanks to a projection pioneered by the University of Liverpool and Lancaster University and international management consultancy Inventya.
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation (CGE) is a virtual centre part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund which supports small firms in commercialising eco-innovative products or services and has helped 10 manufacturing businesses apply for a total of £973,131.
The competition centred around high tech manufacturing firms based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, the science and innovation campus and the Runcorn Heath Business and Technical Park.
Winners now have six months to court other investors to gain matching funding to enable them to conduct research and development projects.
One of the winning bids was from Warrington-based Trametox which has developed unique radiation detectors to reveal any nuclear materials being smuggled into a country in shipping containers.
Jeff Boardman, chief technology officer at Trametox, said: “Coming from a science and engineering background myself, the help from CGE and Inventya was incredibly valuable and included assisting us through two in depth stages of a video presentation and then a detailed submission.
“The Launchpad will now act as a springboard to help us raise the rest of the money required for the successful completion of the project.”
CGE is now calling for eco-innovative small firms in the North West to come forward to link up with university students on collaborative R&D projects lasting between three and six months.
Tom Wright, project manager at the CGE, (pictured) said: “Our aim at the centre is to help drive forward improvements in green technology and services throughout the North West as part of the government’s overall bid to reduce carbon emissions.
“We want to make firms aware of the support that is out there to help them develop eco-innovative products. Depending on the needs of the individual businesses, this could take the form of funding or university-business collaboration.”


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