UKRI’s Dr Sarah Connolly outlines the latest Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, focusing on those projects currently targeting heat recovery and waste utilisation along with other innovations aiming to reduce the sector’s environmental impact.
The Foundation industries, worth £52bn to the UK economy, are vital to UK manufacturing and construction sectors. However, these six industries (metal, paper, glass, cement, ceramic and bulk chemicals) contribute approximately 10% of our carbon emissions, which cannot continue as societal and political pressures move us to a low carbon economy. The Transforming Foundation Industries…
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