Industry News
STFC: Scientists at The University of Manchester and the SuperSTEM facility at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory have discovered that the ‘miracle material’, graphene, undergoes a self repairing process to mend holes. This research could hold the key in the quest to realise graphene's huge potential for use in fields from electronics to medicine.
STFC: Emerald, the new supercomputer launched at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 3 July 2012, is playing a vital role in helping scientists from the University of Bristol understand why antiviral drugs are becoming less effective.
DECC: Edward Davey has launched the new collective switching scheme Cornwall Together, which will enable people across Cornwall to join together as a single powerful unit to negotiate cheaper energy bills - delivering Cornish households and businesses up to an estimated £3.7m worth of savings.
Building on the Cornwall Together initiative, Ed Davey has written to LA Chief Executives to encourage them to consider how they might lead & facilitate community energy switching and bulk buying schemes.
CLG: Communities Secretary Eric Pickles recently announced a £3.5m Government investment for manufacturing innovation at the opening of a new High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute in Essex. The new Institute has been created in partnership with the Centre for Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence and Ford Britain, who are investing a further £1.44m, and is located in a manufacturing heartland a short distance from the legendary Dagenham car factory.
The Institute will develop new & innovative ways to improve manufacturing techniques & increase productivity and is expected to generate £80m to the local economy.
GPS: Customers can now access the Wider Public Sector Office Supplies (RM781) framework, through lots 1 & 2, on a direct award basis for a range of confidential material collection & destruction services.
