About us
About the High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult helps drive economic growth across the country by keeping UK manufacturing innovative, productive and globally competitive.
Each year, thousands of businesses come to HVM Catapult seeking solutions to a particular problem or looking for ways to improve the products they sell, the way they make them and the skills of their workforce which could help them attract inward investment and prosper in the global marketplace.
HVM Catapult’s national network of centres and 3,800 employees provide those companies with access to world-class facilities and expertise that would otherwise be out of reach.
As part of the Innovate UK Catapult Network, HVM Catapult is the link between academia and industry to apply research, commercialising the UK’s most advanced manufacturing ideas. Working at scale and across the UK, our centres are a strategic research and innovation hub for UK industry, collaborating to accelerate industrial transformation by tackling key objectives in support of net zero, healthy living and national security.
As a delivery partner to government, we help shape industrial strategy and are working to ensure the UK has the people, the places and the potential to be a net zero manufacturing superpower.
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HVM Catapult strategic imperatives
Our activity is focused on areas where the combined expertise of our centres can deliver the biggest impact for UK manufacturing. Our strategic priorities are:
- Net zero: industrial sustainability
- Net zero: clean energy transition
- Healthy living
- National security capability
Our Approach to equality, diversity & inclusion (ED&I)
- As part of the Catapult Network, HVM Catapult has been a leading partner in the Inclusivity in Innovation charter, promoting a vision for diverse and inclusive workplaces in innovation.
- We are passionate about developing an inclusive culture and environment and celebrate ED&I because it leads to better decisions, better innovation and makes our working life more rewarding and more productive. All staff should have equal opportunity and participation, and feel valued, respected and secure in their workplace.
- We will hold ED&I to include the characteristics outlined in the Equality Act 2010 {Age; Sex (and Gender); Race (and Ethnicity); Disability; Religion or belief; Sexual orientation; Gender reassignment; Marriage or civil partnerships; Pregnancy and maternity}, but also other historic barriers to opportunity, such as “class”, nationality, dialect, education and other forms of socio-economic exclusion.