The High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVM Catapult) is a group of manufacturing research centres in the United Kingdom, which forms part of the

Catapult centres Catapult centres are organisations set up from 2011 onwards by Innovate UK in the United Kingdom to promote research and development through business-led collaboration between scientists and engineers to exploit market opportunities. They recei ...

initiative.

History

Catapult centres were set up by

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(formerly the Technology Strategy Board). The HVM Catapult was created with £140m of government funding and was the first Catapult centre to open, in October 2011. In 2016, manufacturing employed 2.6m people in the UK, and contributed 11% of GDP.

Structure and funding

The HVM Catapult has offices at the Blythe Valley Business Park, off junction 4 of the M42 in

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, Solihull, West Midlands. It is a

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and its members are seven national centres: * Advanced Forming Research Centre – at the

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* Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre –

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–

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, Darlington and Glasgow * Manufacturing Technology Centre – near

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* National Composites Centre – at

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* Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre – University of Sheffield *

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The company applies for grant funding from Innovate UK, on behalf of itself and its members, and makes grants to the members with the funding received. In the year to March 2017, £89m of grant funding was received alongside £67m collaborative income from the private sector; at 31 March 2017 there were 2,114 employees in total at the centres. In August 2018, each of the centres received allocations from a package of new government funding.

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* {{authority control 2011 establishments in the United Kingdom Catapult centres Engineering research institutes Government agencies established in 2011 Manufacturing in the United Kingdom