Government hands out £12.4m to green manufacturing projects

Michael Holder
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A project to harness heat pumps to cut energy use from cheesemaking was among the funding winners | Credit: iStock
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A project to harness heat pumps to cut energy use from cheesemaking was among the funding winners | Credit: iStock

Efforts to cut energy use from cheesemaking, road manufacturing and steelmaking among projects to share in latest Industrial Energy Transformation funding round

More than £12m government funding has been awarded to scores of projects aimed at slashing emissions, fossil fuel use and energy costs from UK manufacturing across a host of industries, the Department...

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