Making waves with 3D plankton
Hull’s award-winning aquarium, The Deep, planned to create an immersive and innovative exhibition to showcase the drifting inhabitants of cool seas – such as plankton and jellyfish.
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Filling a gap in the market for electric vehicles
There’s growing demand for all-terrain vehicles that can be used on farms, in forests and open spaces. Most quad vehicles are imported, and powered by petrol or diesel engines. Pulse EV are a Humber-based start-up who want to change that.
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Blazing a trail
Hull-based iMist make fire suppression systems to protect homes and businesses around the world. Their systems use just 10% of the water required by traditional sprinklers, so they’re already doing their bit for the environment, but...
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Making your white van green
Company vehicles are an ideal place to advertise your company. Acting as moving billboards, liveried vans, lorries, cars and other vehicles can broadcast your business to everyone else on the road. Hull-based Brandfixx are a decal...
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Lighting the way to energy efficient plants
Electrical contractor Qudos Energy had been successfully installing lighting systems across the horticultural sector for years, but, keen to develop an optimised, energy-efficient system...
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Rapid prototyping for a new product
The inventor of an eco-friendly outdoor clothes dryer powered solely by the sun and wind had developed four prototypes before acknowledging that years might go by before he managed to optimise the design for all weather conditions.
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Can plastic coral defeat microplastics?
Marine life is at risk from microplastic pollution, but can 3D-printed corals be used to help understand the crisis? When researchers at the University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute...
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Taking forever plastics out of our forests
Growing trees may seem like a very green business – but Rainbow Professional, a leading manufacturer of forestry and horticultural products, wanted to take their sustainability to the next level by finding an alternative to traditional plastic tree guards...
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Plugging a gap for the University’s plumbing problem
The University of Hull’s Estates team had a problem with plumbing parts going missing. This was costing the University time and money to replace whole plumbing units, which also wasn’t sustainable.
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