The latest edition of the EnviroCluster newsletter highlights several opportunities for environmental businesses. I would also like to remind everyone to book your places for the E5xpo which is taking place next week! The E5xpo now has over 60 exhibitors from the environmental goods and services sector, over 300 delegates and will also feature an exhibition and seminar from pPod, the consortium constructing the 344 zero carbon homes on the South Bank.

Gareth Jones
EnviroCluster Manager

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A consortium comprising a large company (recycling business), a research institute and a university requires an SME (<250 employees) for participating in a proposal/project related to the development of commercially feasible recycling/disassembly technology and process automation for materials recycling from flat panel displays and related electronics. The requested partner should have business and expertise in the field of development of equipment and/or processes for industrial recycling.

The project (ECO-Innovation) aims at developing a commercially feasible process for recycling of materials from flat panel displays such as LCDs. A pilot process exists but needs to be designed and adjusted to fit commercial requirements. The project will include the development and automation of new processes and equipment.

Interested companies etc. should contact:

Mårten Edwards at marten.edwards@lcdcenter.se or +46 70 619 70 07

or Marianne Bergfors at marianne.bergfors@lcdcenter.se or +46 243 21 79 20

• NEW - View ppod's plans for the Carbon Challenge site in Peterborough where 344 zero carbon homes are going to be built.
• Listen to business leaders in the East of England.
• Take part in seminars and workshops.
• Meet and network with over 50 exhibiting environmental businesses and organisations.
• Watch the launch of EEDA and EnviroTech's new DVD on the environmental goods and services sector in the East of England.
• Free biofuel bus shuttle between Peterborough Station and the E5xpo courtesy of Stagecoach.
• Book a free one-to-one meeting with an international trade officer from the USA, Australia, Bulgaria or the Philippines, at EEI's International café.

We also have a small number of exhibition stands available - call now for details!

For more information, visit the E5xpo website which is updated daily at www.e5xpo.co.uk

A new report by UK CEED on the importance of the environmental service sector to the UK economy has been published as part of a Government initiative on innovation in the services sector.

An earlier report by UK CEED for government valued the ‘official' UK environmental goods and services sector at over £25 billion - which is forecast to rise to £46 billion by 2015 - and employs over 400,000 people in more than 17,000 companies.

The new report highlights the significance of environmental services within the sector and also identifies a large ‘hidden' resource efficiency sub-sector positioned between products at the end of their first life, and their ultimate disposal as waste - remanufacturing alone has a UK turnover of £5 billion, for example.

Environmental services has the potential to be one of the most dynamic areas of the economy over the next decade, but - as a sector which is driven by Government regulations - the report identifies the need for targeted assistance to overcome some critical challenges.

The challenges include the need to develop new know-how and service solutions; to create large-scale physical infrastructures (especially for handling and processing waste); to scale-up and deploy many physical technologies; to develop and deploy new ICT-based methods; and to create new kinds of economic arrangements.

Click here to view the report.

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If you work for an environmental company or organisation in the Greater Peterborough area (see map) then get involved with EnviroCluster and register with the site for free. This will give you access to the entire site where you can find information on business opportunities, business and social networking events, access to your own control panel where you can submit your own news and events to the site, registration for frequent EnviroCluster email bulletins, and a listing in the members directory. If your organisation is already in the directory, then sign-up to edit your listing. Please encourage all of your colleagues to register with EnviroCluster to make us an even stronger EGS community in Peterborough.

EnviroCluster seeks to support and develop Greater Peterborough's environmental goods and services sector by identifying and exploiting business opportunities and by encouraging start-ups. EnviroCluster also attracts inward investment through networking activities and demonstration projects. EnviroCluster is privately-funded and is led by UK CEED. The initiative is also helping Peterborough to become the UK's Environment Capital.