PulpaTronics

Huge congratulations to Chloe So and PulpaTronics! 🏆 🥳 Last week Chloe won the ✨ Innovate UK Rising Star Award ✨ presented at the Materials and Manufacturing Showcase during the Women Innovators in Foundation Industries (WINFI) Awards. 🏆 Another big win for PulpaTronics and our latest CBIT Venture Builder cohort! Pulpatronics develops chipless, metal-free, paper RFID tags that do not require metal extraction and are cheaper and compatible with existing recycling methods. Their innovative laser technology induces a conductive circuit directly onto paper, streamlining the manufacturing process and eliminating the need for metal and silicon components, significantly reducing the environmental footprint of RFID tag production as a result. Innovate UK FIVe - Foundation Industries Ventures #MaterialsManufacturing2025 #VentureBuilder #CBITVentureBuilder Barna Soma Biro Xiao Ma Georgi Iliev Sönnich Dahl Sönnichsen Fatima Gillani, PhD, FHEA Zeng Fan

What an incredible day at the Materials and Manufacturing Showcase 2025! Yesterday, we celebrated the people, innovations and technologies which are transforming the UK’s foundation industries.   Yesterday, we had the honour of hosting the first-ever Women Innovators in Foundation Industries (WINFI) Awards, spotlighting the brilliant minds shaping the future of the UK’s foundation industries.   The winners are...   ⭐ Rising Star: Chloe So at PulpaTronics   🏆 Net Zero Champions: Elizabeth Gilligan from Material Evolution Marta Dana Fedorciuc-Onisa at Lucideon   🤝 Most Collaborative: Cathryn Hickey at AMRICC Verity Piercy from NSG Group   A massive congratulations to the winners and all nominees! Your work is driving innovation and making a lasting impact.   💡 Watch this space for further Showcase insights Innovate UK | Make UK | High Value Manufacturing Catapult   #FoundationIndustries #MaterialsManufacturing2025 #WomenInManufacturing #WiMUK

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If you have a brilliant idea, technology, product, or service that tackles climate change and protects the environment, we want to hear from you. “The support available through the GFIL FFF programme is the perfect combination of scientific expertise, high-end facilities and equipment, flexible structure and the right amount of grant funding to propel any start-up towards the next technology readiness level.” Barna Soma Biro, Co-Founder and CTO of Pulpatronics was awarded the Future Frontiers Fund to research chipless RFID technology, test the durability and performance of RFID tags, and develop a low-cost reader design with scaling potential. Through the Future Frontiers Fund, we're looking to support truly innovative leaps through small grants of approximately £10,000 to test ‘might work’ concepts. Complete your application before Monday 3 March 2025: https://bit.ly/46vzkg5 📷: Barna Soma Biro and Chloe So, PulpaTronics at the Terra Carta Design Lab exhibition

🏆👏🏽 A huge congratulations to all the winners at last night's Innovate UK Women Innovators in Foundation Industries Awards #WINFI. And a very special well done to Chloe So Co-founder and CEO of PulpaTronics who we awarded the Rising Star award sponsored by #FIVe. Chloe is pioneering recyclable, metal-free RFID tags, which are compatible with paper recycling – an innovation that challenges the status quo and has the potential for widespread Foundation Industry impact. She is a true entrepreneur and her ingenuity in turning a three-month long group project at Imperial College London into an impressive number of patents and grants made her a standout winner despite tough competition. Well done to all the winners and nominees across the categories. It was great to hear so many inspiring stories and the huge impact #women are having across the #FoundationIndustries, especially in driving #innovation and #sustainability. 🗣️ And thank you to everyone who came and said hi at the Materials and Manufacturing Showcase or listened to Sarah Harrold's talk in assets and infrastructure about the future of sustainable #glass manufacture. Glass Futures #MaterialsManufacturing2025 #WomenInIndustry