The Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST) is a unique £17m facility hosted by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) that will accelerate the translation of sustainable chemical technology research to help tackle the global challenges of the climate emergency, sustainable development and plastics pollution. It brings together industry with expertise at the Universities of Bath and Oxford, the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s Sustainability Partnership (National Composites Centre and Centre for Process Innovation), innovation experts at SETsquared, Local Enterprise Partnerships and investors. It is supported by the Research England Development Fund, an initiative from UKRI that drives innovation in research and knowledge exchange in higher education. Professor Matthew Davidson, Whorrod Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the University of Bath, is co-director of iCAST. Read about Professor Charlotte Williams’s work on the Fu
