METRC | Case Studies

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METRC has a succesful track record of helping companies to innovate through collaboration with our universities. Below are some examples of high successful company-university partnerships.

Contact our dedicated Knowledge Transfer Team to find out how METRC could help your company in a similar way.

Seaweed

Silage Solutions and Durham University

Key results from a METRC funded collaboration between Silage Solutions Ltd and Durham University to develop a method to preserve marine biomass have fed into a £1.6M, 5 year EPSRC-funded project with other academics and companies to develop sustainable manufacture of liquid hydrocarbon fuels from seaweed.

aesica 2

Aesica Pharmaceuticals partnering with Durham and Leeds Universities

Aesica, the University of Durham and the University of Leeds have been awarded a METRC Innovation award, to develop processes that will improve cost efficiencies and increase manufacturing capacity at the UK contract manufacturing organisation' s Cramlington site.

QuantuMDx

QuantuMDx

QuantuMDx (QMDx) worked with academics at the universities of Newcastle and Sheffield. This has helped the partnership (QuantuMDx and the two universities) to gain close to £2M of further grant funding, win prestigious industry awards and helped the company to secure an exclusive worldwide licence with a major US-based nanotech company.

OAS

Oxford Advanced Surfaces and the University of Sheffield

Oxford Advanced Surfaces (OAS) is developing a way of nanocoating herbicide particles to dramatically increase the efficiency of the herbicide. OAS collaborated with experts in transfer of particles in soil at the University of Sheffield to better develop their product while also proving the performance.

Spartan Nano & Durham University

Spartan Nano are commercialising research aimed at chemical functionalisation and antimicrobials. By collaborating with Durham University, they have gained a competitive advantage and in addition have developed new, collaborative, IP.

High Force Research & Durham University

High Force Research have exploited existing IP and developed new IP in collaboration with the Durham University, and with the help of a METRC award.

Nature’s Laboratory and the University of Bradford

METRC funded a collaboration between researchers at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science (CPES) at the University of Bradford and Nature’s Laboratory to create a process to improve their product.