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In today's Daily Digest, Croda has launched a new delivery system for the biopesticide market, the Australian Research Council has established a Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling, and more.

Agriscience

Innovate UK is bringing together its three agritech centres: Crop Health and Protection; Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock and Agricultural Engineering; and Precision and Innovation Centre, to facilitate a stronger cross sectoral approach and drive better outcome for the agritech sector.

Croda has launched a new delivery system for the biopesticide market. The ready-to-use powder delivery system for spore forming microbes reduces the formulation development time.

The Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Innovation Open Days will take place 11th and 12th October at its site in Surfleet Lincolnshire, UK. The days provide vegetable growers and their customers with an insight into new seed varieties, development, and strategies to tackle the challenges faced by the UK market.

Rothamsted Research is partnering in the Global Nitrogen Innovation Centre for Clean Energy and the Environment’s work to provide timely and crucial insights into rapidly evolving technological innovation to produce ammonia using renewable energy for clean energy and food production.

Innovation

The US government is providing £22 million in funding to 12 state-run programmes to accelerate smart manufacturing at SMEs. The State Manufacturing Leadership Programmes aims to make smart manufacturing technologies and high-performance computing more accessible across the domestic manufacturing sector.

The Australian Research Council has established a Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling. The Hub aims to develop technologies to transform carbon dioxide emission from the energy and manufacturing sectors into valuable products.

Other News

Today, 28 September, the International Energy Agency held its Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Event, which focused on measures to promote the secure, sustainable, and responsible supply of raw materials needed for the clean energy transition. Lord Callanan, UK Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance is attending.