Cranfield University

The partnership comes as extreme weather places growing pressure on water resources across the UK and forms part of Carlsberg Group's wider global commitment to replenish 100% of water consumed at its production sites in high-risk areas by 2032.

Cranfield University researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing rubber gloves that is set to reshape the glove manufacturing industry.

The novel glove-making technique is more scalable and easier to tailor to smaller production quantities, plus it requires less space than a traditional full production line and uses natural rubber.

And Tornado Wire welcomed 119 students from four local schools to its Millom factory as part of National Manufacturing Day, building on links established through last year's event.

That's space expert Adam Baker there.

He's with Cranfield University.

It's going to be on TV somewhere.

You would assume so, right?

It's got a long-term strategic partnership with a lot of universities.

Manchester, Strathclyde, Cranfield, Nottingham, Southampton.

all in areas that include artificial intelligence and cyber, aerospace, quantum research, manufacturing.

Collectively, the strategic university partners, as they are collectively known as, identified by this investigation, they received up to £15 million a year through these arrangements.

If we can get that at least to cost neutral, that means the council will be able to do a lot more cool things.

I would like my Defence Excellence College to have grown and have more strategic ties with Cranfield University.

So we have university level courses going on in that.

And I'd like a mental health hub, which is supporting the people of Swindon.

We must talk about DJI and why they're so dominant.

But let me just introduce our third guest, Mark Westwood, who's Director of Defence and Professor of Aeronautics at Cranfield University.

And Mark, I want you to explain to us what we're meaning by a drone, because we've heard sort of autonomous weapon systems.

What is a drone? What do we mean? Essentially,

But to the largest extent, that is what we do in our systems.

Right.

So how is the British industry going? Mark from Cranfield University.

You know, the UK capability is pretty good, I think.

My name is Sniffla Heaven, and I am the Knowledge Mobilization and Science Communication Officer for EBIC, aka the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Center.

Joining me today, I have the wonderful Dr. Masa Banyasadi, who is a research fellow in experimental biology and biotechnology in Cranfield Water Science Institute, and as well as, of course, working on many projects within EBIC.

We're going to be exploring an exciting project which Masa is the principal investigator of, entitled Harnessing AI-Assisted Synthetic Biology for Enzyme Engineering Towards PFAS Bioremediation.

Now, this project has been funded by EBICS Flexible Funding, which in turn was made possible by a funding injection from UKRI.

And that's where we caught up.

And beyond everything else, he holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Bern with a further executive education at Cranfield University Harvard Business School.

and in seed.

What a great guy, what a great guest.

Right.

So when you actually look overall with the process, um, early on we got Cranfield University to do a broad life cycle assessment on the, on the process.

Yeah.

And we've developed actually since then.

If we wind back a little bit to 2018, we started a project called Mains to Rains.

So this was Innovate UK funded with Cranfield University and RHS.

And it was to create a campaign to switch people from using mains water to using rains water.

It's a pledge system, but it's been enormously successful.