In collaboration with Ferrovial Construction UK & Ireland The Foundation Industries face stark challenges that are worsened by a persistent lack of workforce diversity. In 2020, women represented 16% and BAME workers only 7.1% of all workers. Coinciding with a looming skills shortage due to an ageing workforce, difficulties in recruiting and retaining gender and […]
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Published: March 8th, 2023
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In collaboration with The Dean Group and Morgan Advanced Materials There is no one-size-fits-all approach to Corporate Environmental Sustainability (CES) because organisations have different organisational goals (aims, values, projects, strategies, initiatives & activities) and different interdependencies across these goals. Nevertheless, there is currently no tool or process companies can follow to decide upon their unique […]
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Published: March 8th, 2023
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Through collaborative research and knowledge exchange workshops involving companies and industry associations, the project served to develop a business case for the Foundation Industries to adopt strategies around Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, circularity, and business model innovation to strengthen companies’ competitiveness and reduce the environmental impact they have. Participants reported their engagement with the project […]
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Published: March 8th, 2023
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In collaboration with British Glass Keeping flat glass products (windows and glazing) within a circular economy model presents a great opportunity for decarbonisation, and is economically beneficial. However, public policy attention has focused on recycling and reusing container glass, while most end-of-life post-consumer windows and glazing is not recycled and reusing it is less appropriate. […]
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Published: March 8th, 2023
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In collaboration with Materials Processing Institute (MPI), Morgan Advanced Materials and Lucideon Ltd. Next generation processing technologies (NGPTs), being new technologies that provide high energy efficiency and process intensification supported by transformative digital technologies, are touted as key decarbonisation enablers in the ceramic and glass sectors, but there are adoption barriers to overcome. Through a […]
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Published: March 8th, 2023
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22 March 2023, 14:00 Online Via Zoom Register to attend The ‘Blue skies, green future’ webinar series presents ideas and innovation to spark discussion on the topic of transformation and sustainability within the foundation industries. This webinar will be presented by Dr Sophie Nixon The biotechnological potential of environmental microbiomes: a new route to CO2 […]
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Published: February 27th, 2023
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UKRI-ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ awards over £200,000 to 5 research projects aimed at exploring enablers of transformation and social sciences in the Foundation Industries The Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Network+ has awarded funding to 5 research projects in its fifth round of flexible funding. This round was themed on ‘Enablers of Transformation’ with an […]
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Published: February 7th, 2023
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2022 was a very positive and successful year for the TFIN+. We achieved >600 members includingrepresentatives from academia (67%) and industry (33%), 303 followers on Twitter (>33,000 impressions) and 540 on LinkedIn (>23,000 impressions). We delivered workshops, conferences and networking within the community on topics such as energy efficiency, the circular economy or equality, diversity […]
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Published: February 3rd, 2023
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Tuesday 31st January, 10:00-11:00 Click here to register to attend The ‘Blue skies, green future’ webinar series presents ideas and innovation to spark discussion on the topic of transformation and sustainability within the foundation industries. This webinar will be presented by Begoña Ferrari About the Network The TFI Network aims to assist the foundation industries […]
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Published: January 3rd, 2023
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Sheffield is the leading group in the UK in this novel technology which may prove pivotal in the path to net zero for the ceramics sector. TFI Network+ director, Prof Ian Reaney, has been leading cold sintering research at Sheffield and has recently been awarded funds from the Economiser programme (UKRI) to upgrade existing equipment […]
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Published: January 3rd, 2023
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