Loughborough spinout Micropore Technologies has moved its emulsion systems business to Teeside, where it has gained support from economic redevelopment unit UK Steel Enterprise.
Micropore Technologies, a UK-based emulsion systems spinout from Loughborough University, received £100,000 ($136,000) on Thursday from UK Steel Enterprise (UKSE), an economic redevelopment arm of steelmaker Tata Steel, itself part of conglomerate Tata.
Micropore is developing membrane emulsification technology that can imprint mono-sized and dispersed droplets mixed with a liquid that is not soluble or miscible, a combination known as an emulsion.
Minute emulsions could be used for greater manufacturing precision, enabling applications such as controlling the release of pharmaceutical drugs, reducing fat content in unhealthy foodstuffs or developing new specialised creams.
Micropore will use the capital to continue laboratory research as it prepares to commence full-scale manufacturing. The company spun out from Loughborough University in 2003 but has since relocated to Teesside in northeast England, a steelmaking region that lies within UKSE’s redevelopment purview.
Micropore Technologies previously raised $335,000 in a 2016 round that included $137,000 from UKSE and $124,000 from North East Angel Fund.
