CPI

France: Normandy

Overview

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is a UK based technology innovation centre and the process arm of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.

CPI collaborates with universities, SMEs and large corporates to help overcome innovation challenges and develop next generation products and processes. Operating across a broad range of technologies, we support our partners at every step of the way; from concept to market; business support to technology development; from scale up to supply chain intervention

Our partners operate across diverse markets including Healthcare, Food & Agriculture, FMCG, Electronics, Energy, Transportation and Construction. CPI is able to support such a broad-base of industries through our unique innovation processes, together with our diverse and expanding platform of technological expertise.

Overall the combination of CPI’s innovation processes and our outstanding scientific expertise, enables our partners to get more products to market faster, and at a lower overall cost. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Agriculture, forestry and fishing - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities - Silviculture and other forestry activities - Fishing and aquaculture - Construction - Construction of buildings - Civil engineering - Specialised construction activities - Education - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply - Water supply; sewerage; waste managment and remediation activities - Water collection, treatment and supply - Sewerage - Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery - Remediation activities and other waste management services - Financial and insurance activities - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security - Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities - Human health and social work activities - Human health activities - Residential care activities - Social work activities without accommodation - Accommodation and food service activities - Accommodation - Food and beverage service activities - Manufacture of basic metals - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment - Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products - Manufacture of electrical equipment - Manufacture of leather and related products - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. - Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products - Manufacture of paper and paper products - Printing and reproduction of recorded media - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products - Manufacture of textiles - Manufacture of other transport equipment - Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials - Mining and quarrying - Mining of coal and lignite - Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas - Mining of metal ores - Other mining and quarrying - Mining support service activities - Other services activities - Activities of membership organisations - Repair of computers and personal and household goods - Other personal service activities - Other manufacturing - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security - Real estate activities - Professional, scientific and technical activities - Legal and accounting activities - Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities - Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis - Scientific research and development - Advertising and market research - Other professional, scientific and technical activities - Veterinary activities - Administrative and support service activities - Rental and leasing activities - Employment activities - Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities - Security and investigation activities - Services to buildings and landscape activities - Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
Technology
Organic and large area electronics - Micro/nano electronics - Sensory systems - Photonics and imaging technologies - Communication networks - Cyber physical systems - Internet of things - Interaction technologies - Cyber security - Advanced, or high performance computing - Big data, data analytics, data handling - Software as a service and service architectures - Cloud computing - Additive manufacturing - Laser based manufacturing