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Department for Business and Trade

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Advanced MaterialsGovernment, funding and regulationOfficial source checked

Government launches £50m critical minerals investment programme

The UK Government announced £50 million for critical minerals projects, including a Magnet Hub, a Critical Minerals Accelerator and a demand aggregation platform.

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UK Research and Innovation

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Advanced MaterialsGovernment, funding and regulationOfficial source checked

National Materials Innovation Programme runs from 2026 to 2030

UKRI's National Materials Innovation Programme is intended to coordinate the UK advanced materials sector and accelerate the translation and adoption of materials across key industrial sectors.

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Department for Business and Trade

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Advanced MaterialsGovernment, funding and regulationOfficial source checked

Critical Minerals Accelerator publishes scheme clarifications

Updated government guidance clarifies eligible maturity levels, project scope, funding ranges, applicant types and the application process for the Critical Minerals Accelerator.

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Advanced Materials

Everything is made of something.

Make Britain the place where new materials are discovered, qualified and manufactured

The answer

Make Britain the place where new materials are discovered, qualified and manufactured.

  • Materials determine what is possible in energy, mobility, defence, semiconductors and health.
  • Qualification, not discovery, is the usual bottleneck.
  • Britain has deep materials research adjacent to real manufacturing.

Why BritainGraphene and two-dimensional materials research leadership.An unusually strong applied research and Catapult estate.Existing metals, composites and coatings manufacturing base.

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Beamline hall · Diamond Light Source · Harwell · Sintakso

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The Advanced Materials campus

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What Britain already has

Research base

  • University of Manchester
  • University of Sheffield
  • University of Liverpool
  • Swansea University

Infrastructure recorded

  • Qualification and testing facilities
  • Pilot production lines
  • Characterisation equipment
  • Scale-up manufacturing

What Britain is genuinely good at

  • Henry Royce Institute
  • Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
  • National Composites Centre
  • Materials Innovation Factory, Liverpool

What we’re less certain about

  • Time and cost of qualification
  • Access to pilot-scale production
  • Corporate adoption risk appetite

These are open questions UKIZ holds against this campus, not weaknesses we have proven.

Where the capability is

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What UKIZ holds on UK advanced materials

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Advanced Materials in Britain, as it stands today.

Materials sit upstream of almost every other mission. Britain discovers materials well and qualifies and manufactures them slowly, which is where the value is lost.

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