Partners

We bring together leading academic institutions, pioneering industry partners, and international collaborators to develop sustainable engineering plastic solutions that enable a circular economy across the automotive, electronics, and construction sectors.

The Centre of Polymers and Composites (CPC) at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick is a leading centre in the field of plastics and composites.

Their holistic approach integrates materials, manufacturing, design, and end-of-life solutions to drive advancements in the industry. With a rich history of innovation and technology transfer in plastics and composite processing, they have collaborated with numerous organizations, including large corporations and SMEs. From raw material suppliers to manufacturers and end users, they have developed and implemented sustainable plastic solutions across diverse sectors, including the development of new high-volume manufacturing technologies for automotive thermoset and thermoplastic composites.

Their research encompasses a wide range of topics in the field of plastics, composites, and elastomers. From process and structural simulation to materials formulation and industrially relevant processing methods like injection moulding, compression moulding, and extrusion, they conduct research across all stages and scales including fundamental characterization up to full-scale industrial manufacturing and test studies, ensuring the validity of simulations and demonstrating industrial feasibility.

The Sustainable Materials Innovation (SMI) Hub at the University of Manchester supports innovation in sustainable plastics and multi-materials, with a particular emphasis on tackling industrially relevant research questions. The team is necessarily interdisciplinary, with polymer chemists and engineers working with economists, social scientists, machine learners, and life-cycle assessment experts to co-create robust solutions to managing plastic from creation to end-of-life.

They take a systems level approach to exploring and assessing sustainable solutions, ensuring interventions are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. They fight against greenwashing, care about metrology and quality standards, strive for a safe, diverse and equitable laboratory environment, and build international research partnerships to learn from other leaders in plastics recycling and circularity.

The multidisciplinary UCL team comprises experts in materials science, design, digital infrastructures, AI tools, business models and economic modelling. They have a track record working with a wide range of stakeholders in construction and electronics sectors to tackle circular economy issues including repair and reuse.

Adjacency

AMDEA

Barratt Redrow

BASF (Germany)

BEKO

Altana (Germany)

Bellway Homes

Biffa

BM Longworth

BMT Group (United Kingdom)

British Plastics Federation

IPL Brightgreen

Bureo Inc

CEAD

Circular11

Collins Aerospace

CoolVan

Centre for Process Innovation

Deaking Bio

Dsposal

Ecobelt

Elliott Wood

etsaW

FlexSea

gen2Carbon

GING

Grensol AG

Greyparrot

HIVE

Impact Solutions

Innovate Recycle

Interface Polymers

Jaguar Land Rover Limited

John F Hunt

KMD Plastifizierungstechnik

LGC

Linecross

Max Fordham (United Kingdom)

Milliken & Company (United States)

Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials

Morris and Company

Netzsch

Nextek

Radius Systems

National Physical Laboratory NPL

Numatic

Pentaxia

Permali

Plastiflex

Polestar Automotive UK

Polymateria Ltd

PragmatIC (United Kingdom)

Reactive Components

Henry Royce Institute

SABIC

SET Europe

Siemens

SM8RT

Spiral RTC

SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK

Sustainable Ventures

Syensco

Tech-Takeback

Tata Motors (United Kingdom)

Vanden Recycling

Vector Homes

Vita Group (United Kingdom)

WMG HVM Catapult