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CPI helps companies to develop, prove, prototype and commercialise the next generation of products and processes.

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Working with CPI saved us at least 18 months of development time and a capital investment in the order of £10 – 20 million.

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CEO, PragmatIC

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CPI is an independent technology innovation centre which translates ideas and research into successfully commercialised products and processes.

We provide open access facilities and expertise to help companies develop, prove, prototype, and scale up their innovations.

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New facility to exploit opportunities in Internet of Things

CPI has opened a state-of-the-art facility to help companies exploit opportunities using the Internet of Things.

26 April 2018

CPI helps Quantum Technology Supersensors launch

CPI has supported Quantum Technology Super Sensors on the launch of a pioneering and game-changing sensor.

29 March 2018

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If there’s an organisation which speaks for the process industry and is still standing tall on behalf of that industry, then that organisation is CPI.
Dr Hamid Mughal OBE
Director of Global Manufacturing Rolls Royce plc

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High Value Manufacturing Catapult

In 2011 Centre for Process Innovation was named as the process element of the government’s elite network of Catapult centres. This awards CPI direct involvement in UK and EU strategy alongside substantial sustained investment to ensure our staff and facilities are at the cutting edge of product and process development…