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Funded Brand and Communications Training for SMEs

Funded Brand and Communications Training for SMEs

Are you an SME working in or with the foundation industries, looking to make your business or technology stand out? Are you a business founder looking to inspire and add authority when you speak? There is an opportunity to receive brand and communications training funded by the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge. The training course is delivered by a specialist consultancy and is designed for smaller businesses. If you would be interested in receiving this training, please complete the Expression of Interest form by 27th January 2023. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScayZtWmvOJZvWt0_FvpzOXS5PZlHeFPES3Pf82WrlR8xErcA/viewform

Joanna Johnson2023-01-24T14:31:51+00:00January 24th, 2023|

TransFIRe helping to inspire the next generation…

TransFIRe helping to inspire the next generation…

As part of Manufacturing and Materials Week at Cranfield University, Professor Mark Jolly, Director of Manufacturing at Cranfield University and Director of TransFIRe, delivered an outreach event to pupils of Bedford Road Primary School. The children visited the Cranfield campus where Professor Jolly talked to the children about what triggered the start of our increased use of fossil fuels, sustainability and ways in which we could all think about reducing our carbon footprint in our day-to day lives. They then had the opportunity to explore the labs and 3D printing equipment and to talk to some of our researchers about the work they are doing. The children also made a series of pledges of ways they would try to reduce their carbon emissions, generating ideas such as reducing the number of single use aluminium cans they used to reducing their meat consumption! The aim of the event was to [...]

Joanna Johnson2023-01-24T12:14:59+00:00January 24th, 2023|

TransFIRe Industrial Symbiosis Workshop helps identify new valuable partnerships with foundation industries

TransFIRe Industrial Symbiosis Workshop helps identify new valuable partnerships with foundation industries

Over the past few months, TransFIRe has been working with project partner International Synergies Ltd on their first industrial symbiosis workshop, generating a range of exciting results with the potential to reduce cost, cut carbon emissions and reduce waste disposal for foundation industries. The workshop brought together around 50 participants from over 30 organisations with the aim of bringing together the six foundation industries (cement, chemicals, ceramics, metals, glass and paper), with representation from their respective supply chains, to identify opportunities for industrial symbiosis. Companies exchanged information on the resources, wastes and by-products they had and which they could benefit from, highlighting a significant number of industrial symbiosis synergies, some quick wins and other longer term innovation opportunities. These are currently being taken forward and developed by the TransFIRe team in close collaboration with our project partners. Out of the 172 resources presented, 83 ideas, or potential synergies, [...]

Joanna Johnson2023-02-27T15:03:10+00:00January 24th, 2023|

Challenges and opportunities presented by offshore wind

Challenges and opportunities presented by offshore wind

Dr Anne Velenturf from the University of Leeds was interviewed by ITV about the opportunities and challenges for growing offshore wind. While she accepts the opportunities are potentially vast, she says it is not the silver bullet to solving the climate crisis. Read and watch the interview here.

Joanna Johnson2023-02-27T13:26:54+00:00November 1st, 2021|