
About
If you're looking for somewhere to get your agritech business started, or do some research, the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub is for you.
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The Hub is an incubator research centre dedicated to reducing crop and food waste or channeling waste into higher grade end products. The Hub is equipped to run as a field/test station where NIAB can work with local and national businesses to carry out commercial-scale pilot studies and research. The ultimate aim is to improve the resource use efficiency in the horticultural and fresh produce supply chains.
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Situated just outside Cambridge, and managed by NIAB, we can offer you access to an office work space, boardroom or laboratory. Alternatively, why not become a virtual hub member?
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Facilities
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Main building: reception, board room, hot-desk office, meeting rooms, kitchen, shower facilities, fully equipped laboratory, main work room with heating, work benches and fume cupboards
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Outbuilding with three sub compartments currently being used by our Hub licensees
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Warehouse for research and pilot testing with water and power
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Field lab
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Two large polytunnels with hydroponic growing systems; deep water and ebb & flow
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Outside growing areas
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Two small research glasshouses with benching and frost-free heating
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Tractor shed
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Parking
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A 33KW solar farm feeding back into the facility and back to the grid when over capacity
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A 10KW ground source heat pump working with solar thermal panels
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An aerobic PRM bio digester which breaks down organic material into a highly efficient fertiliser or fuel for a bio boiler
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A bio disc; a small scale sewage treatment plant
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Air source heat pumps to heat and cool the polytunnel
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Two rainwater harvesting systems
Become a licensee at the Hub
Join the Innovation Hub Club
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Suitable for those who do not need to rent a space at the Hub as a licensee but who are interested in joining the community
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From £300 +VAT/year (membership requires approval)
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Benefits Include:
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Full access to our Hub administrator to help you arrange meetings with farmers and other business people
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Free use of the board meeting room for up to six farmer industry meetings per year of three participants or more (subject to availability and booking required)
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Part of the Hub Community
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We can work with you to identify potential customers and contacts within the industry
