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Helping deliver the Tees Valley’s net zero ambitions
28/2/2024
8 min read
Feature
The UK’s Tees Valley has long been home to major heavy industrial and petrochemicals manufacturing sites. But is now also home to the Teesside University’s Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, which aims to help the emergence of several low and zero carbon initiatives including carbon capture, direct air capture and hydrogen. The University’s Dave Roberts writes.
Situated on the edge of Middlesbrough in north-eastern England sits the Teesside Advanced Manufacturing Park (TeesAMP), home to Teesside University’s Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre (NZIIC). Based on the site of a former ironworks and home to several forward-looking and innovative new businesses, its location is an apt metaphor for the work of the NZIIC.
As the Tees Valley economy looks to a future beyond its carbon intensive petrochemical and steelmaking industries (such as a growing supply chain for sustainable aviation fuel, SAF) the NZIIC sits at the nexus between those past and future industries.
The transition to a net zero economy is at the heart of Teesside University’s mission and the NZIIC is key to this. It helps existing businesses to reduce their carbon emissions and, at the same time, supports research into innovative new technologies that can be scaled up into new businesses.