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At Peter Beales our ambition is to offer a specialist rose and plant centre that sells the widest range of finest quality roses and other plants including shrubs and herbaceous stock. Nestled in the heart of the Peter Beales magnificent two acre display gardens, the plant centre has almost doubled in size over the last two years, with an ever-increasing range of plants.

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Smartbell offers an enterprise IoT and Artificial Intelligence based solution for livestock rearing and management. The fully automated system includes distress alerts, herd analysis, tracking across the value chain and customised management reports. The system uses advanced analytics on data gathered from animal wearables for early detection of issues. Smartbell also cross references regional data to better understand resource utilisation and promote proven best practices to reduce the negative environmental impacts of livestock rearing through increased resource utilization efficiencies.

We are a family run business, renowned as a specialist plant and tree centre, with one of the widest selections of plants on display in Cambridgeshire. The garden centre is always fully stocked with over 300 varieties of shrubs, 300 varieties of herbaceous and perennial plants. With over 90% of our stock being home grown we can guarantee it will be of excellent quality and very competitively priced. We are specialist tree growers growing over 100 different varieties of Fruit Trees and more than 200 varieties of Ornamental and Native trees. We supply over 150 other garden centres nationwide with trees. Simpson's Nurseries have supported the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub by providing plants and nursery space for our BioBoost Green Pesticide trial work and WRAP Green Pesticide trial work.

We have an enviable reputation for cost effective solutions to industrial waste and recycling problems. Our extensive range of recycling equipment gives you the power to optimise your waste segregation, handling, storage and transportation. These include Aerobic Digestion, Baling, Bin Lifting, Briquetting, Compacting, Conveyors, Dewatering & Depackaging, Plastics & Film Source Segregation, Screening, Separating, Shearing and Shedding.

PRM Waste Systems are actively involved in researching and developing innovative technology, we work alongside our clients and suppliers to develop new solutions to existing and emerging difficulties. We are the UK agents for Imabe Iberica who manufacture horizontal balers and conveyors, Runi A/S who manufacture screw compactors for expanded polystyrene and dewatering waste, Knapzak for a collection system, Vincent Corp who manufacture a dewatering screw press for organic material, JOEST who specialise in screening equipment and THM Recycling Solutions for all forms of shredding equipment.

"Consus Packhouse" is a solution built specifically for growing, packing and distribution operations - with particular emphasis on Quality Assurance & Traceability. From vegetables to soft fruit, flowers and herbs, Consus will have a solution for you and software that works around your operation.

Based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, Consus Fresh Solutions was established by Peter Taylor and Derek Thompson, who have over 30 years' experience of working within the fresh produce industry.

With up to the minute knowledge of changing markets, legislation and technology, Consus Fresh Solutions work with selected partners to ensure the Consus software continues to be the most innovative solution now and in the future.

The cloud based software allows growers to manage their packing processes, cut waste, reduce labour costs and increase profits. Embedded Traceability functionality enables growers to track a pallet from field to despatch, and from despatch back to field with full historic detail.

BRC and retailer compliance are fully automated enabling your technical team to work more efficiently and endless paper based compliance systems become obsolete.

The Time & Attendance module with built in facial recognition integrates fully with the Consus costing system enabling you to have instant access to your production costs in real time.

Develops sustainable and scalable organic alternative to herbicides and is improving the environment by reducing the use of chemicals. RootWave Pro is an award winning professional hand-weeder for gardeners and groundskeepers to spot-weed and treat invasive species. RootWave is the leading solution to organically kill weeds without using chemicals and uses electricity to boil weeds inside out from the root upwards.

Mass protein production is not environmentally friendly and we currently waste 30% of all we produce. That's 1.5 billion tonnes or £500 billions worth annually! Current recycling efforts are too often slow and capitally intensive with questionable economics and carbon footprints. Our solution - Conversion Food waste to feed and fertiliser We're currently working on our patented, super efficient GrubBox. Designed to utilise natures own recycling titans...Insects or more specifically Black Soldier Fly Larvae. GrubBox, is modular, highly efficient, and super deployable. Once in production, GrubBox will be complemented by CompBox our state of the art composter.

Founded in 2015, Better Origin is a Cambridge-based startup transforming food waste into animal feed using insects. They are on a mission to make insect farming accessible to farmers with their decentralised approach. Their product, the Better Origin X1, is a fully autonomous insect farm powered by AI. It's the size of a standard shipping container, yet it can feed 16,000 chickens and mitigate tons of waste. Better Origin is working with farmers, retailers, and food producers to secure the future of food and reduce food waste.

Celbius helps customers to improve their bioprocesses by exposing liquids and slurries to ultrasonic energy. The energy is delivered to the process stream whilst flowing through a sonic pipe and lowers production costs for extractions, fermentations and biotransformations by enabling faster reactions and higher yields. Key applications for the agricultural industry include extraction, for example for natural colours, antioxidants and other bioactives.

The technology improves the yield of biogas and bioethanol (fermentation), and may be used for other applications where efficient mixing, material drying, cleaning or novel product formulation is needed.Laboratory experiments are first performed to quantify the benefit of ultrasound in the process. Following this, the technology is demonstrated in a full scale 10L flow cell prior to installation in a manufacturing process. A variety of business models are available to suit the customer.

Cambond has developed a plant based resin which can be used as an industrial adhesive for construction products in wood panel industry to replace formaldehyde based resin. We have IP to cover non-added formaldehyde bioresin system to be used in making MDF, OSB, particle board and plywood. Cambond resin allows for environmentally friendly manufacture of construction products (wood panels, other materials) to be made in existing manufacturing facilities at competitive cost. In addition, Cambond resin can be combined with many types of agricultural biomass fibres or polymers to make a range of biomass composites which offer environmental and commercial advantages.

Cambond technology solves the 2 largest problems manufacturers have in looking for environmentally friendly materials for their products

Cost - alternatives to plastics are more expensive than the materials they replace.
Supply - alternatives are often available in limited supplies inhibiting large scale change.
Cambond provides a solution to these issues. Our materials are largely plant based (>50%) and so enjoy the commercial advantage of a lower cost feedstock. Biomass byproducts from agriculture are available all over the world in very large quantities.

Cambond composites can replace plastics in existing manufacturing processes which use moulding and extrusion to make a wide range of products.
Cambond composites can be manufactured and supplied to manufacturers for LESS than the cost of their current virgin plastics.
Cambond has a library of patents to cover the technology. Some of these patents ARE granted in China and the US.
Cambond is bringing its technology to market and scaling up operations. We know our technology can be used in EXISTING manufacturing processes to substitute plant/biomass feedstocks for oil feedstock and provide significant commercial and environmental benefits in manufacture.

In order to turn 'waste into taste', WASWARE Ltd was set-up to commercialise food waste based products. For example, used coffee ground based coffee cups.

In a cost competitive world our technology fits in well with the resource available in the place where produces millions of tonnes of biomass per year as by-products of agriculture (rice wheat straws, sugarcanes, HEMP, etc.). These materials have commercial cost advantages and could be used to replace wood or plastics in the manufacture of many products.

IP is a core component of Cambond's business. We have taken significant steps and expenditure to file patents and protect the company's intellectual property.

Cambond are looking for investment and business partners in the UK and Europe to grow the business in scale and commercialise the intellectual property. WE will grow a global business with manufacturing capability in major markets around the world.

Cambond would prefer to work in partnership with industrial/commercial partners to establish JV arrangements which would deliver capital and industrial/commercial expertise to the endeavour. This will speed the route to market and significantly reduce execution risk.

Innovation Agri-tech Group is a pioneering farming technology company. A British agricultural technology company providing cutting-edge solutions to the traditional challenges of farming. IAG owns and operates one of the largest indoor vertical farms in the UK, as well as offering a variety of patented products and expert services to help other companies profit from a more scientific approach to farming, providing optimal conditions for healthy crops to grow and flourish.

We offer bespoke, full-service solutions for those who are keen to invest in the indoor farming space but don't have the time for management or maintenance. Our end-to-end service allows you to sit back and reap the benefits of this thriving industry, while we take care of the rest. When you step inside the IAG facility in Berkshire, you will be able to experience our unique, modular, aeroponic vertical farming technology. We have 10,000sq feet of scalable, food secure, indoor farming space which allows us to grow commercially in a controlled environment.

We offer a proven solution to enhance crop productivity and yield, alongside R & D trial space. IAG promote Vertical Farming as an additional solution to the current challenges facing our British agriculture industry in 2021 and beyond. These industry challenges can only be countered by collaboration with memberships like NIAB, The Innovation Hub, and the team.