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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Carbon-Loop Sustainable Manufacturing Launch Event, held in the magnificent surroundings of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.

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Mairi Rudkin
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Carbon-Loop Sustainable Manufacturing Launch Event, held in the magnificent surroundings of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. The venue felt fitting for a programme as ambitious as the Carbon-Loop Sustainable Biomanufacturing Hub (C‑Loop). Edinburgh has long been a centre of cutting‑edge medical research and is now home to world‑leading work in industrial biotechnology.

C‑Loop itself is a £14 million collaboration spanning six universities and a wide network of industrial partners, all united around a single mission: advancing innovation in sustainable manufacturing by bringing together chemistry, biology and engineering.

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