On-Site Industrial Exhibitions
2026 Science, Engineering & Technology & Innovation Exhibitions
Showcasing innovation across the UK’s leading industrial, scientific and engineering sites - connecting suppliers directly with end-users where technology meets real-world application
Introduction
Driving Innovation Across Science, Engineering & Technology Sectors
For more than 30 years, Nu-Tech Exhibitions + Events has been delivering specialist on-site exhibitions that connect technology suppliers directly with professionals working within the UK’s key industrial sectors.
Our 2026 programme continues this long-standing commitment to promoting technology transfer, innovation and collaboration across the nuclear, defence, aerospace, maritime, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and science & technology industries.
These exhibitions provide a unique opportunity for companies to demonstrate their products, services and capabilities directly to end-users — all within their working environment. It’s a cost-effective and targeted way to engage with decision-makers, strengthen existing relationships, and gain valuable insight into current and future requirements across UK industry.
Key Features:
- Access to secure sites – gain entry to industrial and research facilities that are not normally open to external visitors, giving you a rare opportunity to present your capabilities within the working environment of your target audience.
- Closer to your target audience – engage directly with engineers, scientists and decision-makers on site, where meaningful conversations about real operational needs and opportunities naturally take place.
- Save time and money – avoid the expense and uncertainty of large national exhibitions by exhibiting in a focused setting designed to connect you with the right people more efficiently.
- Meet key decision-makers – showcase your products and services to those responsible for specifying, assessing and purchasing technology, engineering and innovation solutions.
- Exclusive environments – exhibit in professional yet relaxed surroundings that encourage open discussion, collaboration and the building of long-term business relationships.
- Strengthen on-site relationships – maintain existing contacts and establish new ones within host organisations, helping you stay visible and relevant for future procurement and development opportunities.
Bringing innovation, expertise and opportunity together – on site, where it matters most, helping you demonstrate your capabilities and establish meaningful partnerships within the UK’s leading industrial sectors.
On-Site Industrial Exhibitions
Our on-site exhibitions cover a wide range of industrial sectors – each tailored to address the unique needs and challenges of the host sites. Below are the key areas we support, each representing key contributors to the UK’s industrial and technological advancement.
2026 Exhibition Venues
Our 2026 exhibition calendar features some of the UK’s most important industrial, scientific and research sites. Each venue offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with key personnel in their working environment.
Participating Host Sites & Site Operators
Explore Each Venue
Explore the tabs below to learn more about each venue, including event focus areas, target sectors and opportunities to showcase your capabilities.
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Babcock Devonport
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Babcock Rosyth Dockyard
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Babcock Technology Centre
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BAE Air Sector
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BAE Submarines
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Birchwood Nuclear Hub
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EDF Heysham
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Essar Oil Stanlow
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Granta Park - Life Sciences & Engineering Hub
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HMNB Clyde
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HMNB Portsmouth
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Porton Down Science Campus
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STFC Daresbury Laboratory
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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Westinghouse Springfields
Babcock is an international aerospace, defence and security company, with a leading naval business, providing value add services across a range of countries, including the UK, France, Canada, Australia and South Africa. Babcock helps customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.
Babcock International’s Devonport Royal Dockyard facility is co-located with HM Naval Base Devonport to form the largest naval support site in Western Europe. The site is an operational, training and support base for both submarines and surface ships including visiting international naval vessels.
The Naval Base is the home port for all ships in the Royal Navy amphibious fleet, half of the Royal Navy frigate fleet and a number of Royal Navy submarines and survey vessels. Babcock’s facilities at Devonport include the UK’s sole licenced site for the refitting and refuel / defuel of nuclear-powered submarines, where both Trafalgar and Vanguard Class of submarines undergo major refits and upgrades. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, Babcock provides through-life support for submarines, surface ships and associated systems and equipment as part of the company’s commitment to support the UK’s naval capability.
Babcock’s Naval Base Management service supports all activities on the Devonport site: from the provision of all waterfront services, through the management of extensive above and below ground infrastructure and plant, to the control and supply of utilities and logistics.
In meeting the ongoing and future requirements of the site, Babcock would like to engage with a comprehensive range of suppliers that focus on engineering and technology products and expertise in support of all the areas listed above. These may be companies from across both existing and transferable industry sectors; but who are also based in the South West region of England – defined as Bristol, Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly), Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Companies based outside of this geographic area can still express an interest in exhibiting by indicating what specialist products or expertise they think may benefit the Devonport site. We will contact these companies separately if an opportunity becomes available for them to participate. However, please note that priority will initially be given to those located in the SW that have technologies of interest to Babcock.
Babcock is an international aerospace, defence and security company, with a leading naval business, providing value add services across a range of countries, including the UK, US, Canada, Korea, Australia and South Africa. Babcock helps customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.
Babcock International’s Rosyth Dockyard in Dunfermline, Fife is the location of one of the largest waterside manufacturing and repair facilities in the UK and offers Energy and Marine client’s access to world-class dockyard efficiency, scale and adaptability adjacent to the North sea. From its early Naval support era, the business at Rosyth has continuously evolved and today offers an extensive and diverse range of commercial and engineering support services to UK and international customers.
The facilities offer complete customer service, from concept to completion, and the unique capabilities, facilities and infrastructure allow Babcock to provide comprehensive logistical support to its many customers. Spanning across a 300-acre site, Rosyth has a fabrication area the equivalent in size of more than 1,100 parked buses, along with 25 covered manufacturing bays each equipped with specially widened doors that can accommodate even the largest of projects. The company delivers large-scale manufacturing, off-site modular build, logistics and heavy lifts and can accommodate ships and submarines in three dry docks up to 320m in length, with secure non-tidal access and ship lift facilities up to 1,000 tonnes.
Having seen investment of over £100m in recent years, the Rosyth Dockyard spends £ millions annually with the UK’s supply chain.
Babcock is an international aerospace, defence and security company, with a leading naval business, providing value add services across a range of countries, including the UK, France, Canada, Australia and South Africa. Babcock helps customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability, and availability of their most critical assets.
Babcock International’s Technology Centre (BTC) in Stoke Gifford, Bristol, serves as a hub for engineering and design staff across the South West. The BTC supports Babcock’s work in providing through-life technical and engineering support, specialist training, asset management, and the design and manufacture of defence and specialist equipment. Additionally, the Centre offers services such as the Maritime Collaborative Working Environment (MCWE) in support of the Ministry of Defence and its industry partners.
During 2024, Babcock International contributed approximately £4.3 billion to the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), marking an increase of £1 billion from fiscal year 2022. Additionally, the company supported around 67,000 jobs across the UK during this period.
In helping Babcock in their long-term goal to support the UK’s defence sector and other key clients, companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event.
Please indicate, when registering your interest, which items you can support, and we will get back with more details when we have them available:
- Sensor capabilities
- Robotics/Automation (production/manufacturing, storage, transportation of equipment)
- Analytics (Big data, BIM)
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Smart coatings (long preservation/life, robust coatings)
- Academia engagement
- Remote and autonomous inspection systems (pipe, concrete, vessel and infrastructure surveys)
- Advanced (incl. Additive) Manufacturing
- Human performance augmentation
- Metrology
- Modularity (for Civil Nuclear)
- Augmented Reality (familiarisation of sites, facilities, vessels, training, inductions)
- Simulation systems
- Integrating systems (new, and legacy)
This will be a small indoor exhibition focussing on the needs of those based in the Technology Centre.
In making preparations for an event on behalf of BAE Systems (Air Sector) we will be seeking specific products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain that can focus on supporting key requirements of the Air Sector’s business needs.
These are likely to include specialist areas such as Software, Big Data Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Future Technologies and potentially other areas of engineering development. However, there might also be a need to support the Air Sector with more conventional technology that can supply the Tempest/Future Combat Air System, fast Jet systems & equipment and the Typhoon & Hawk platforms.
Until we have further details on this event, we are interested in collating a register of suppliers who think they have a technology that can offer something in these or related areas.
In particular, please let us know if you can supply any of the following:
- AI Technology
- Business intelligence
- Analytics and advanced prognostics
- System integration
- Data quality and data cleansing
- Use-ability apps
- Sensing technology
- Big data infrastructure
- Analytics (toolsets to handle 100K data points)
- Analytics & data discovery
- Condition based maintenance toolsets and providers
- Augmented Reality Vendors
- Workflow software
- SAP specific bolt-ons
- Condition monitoring
- Surveying drones
- Automated or remote technologies for material state
- Other (please specify)
BAE SYSTEMS is a global company engaged in the development, delivery and support of advanced defence, security and aerospace systems in the air, on land and at sea.
BAE Systems Maritime (Submarines) based at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria is the only UK builder of nuclear submarines and has a shipbuilding history which spans more than 100 years. The Barrow site is a designated submarine ‘centre of excellence’ and a key component of BAE Systems Maritime activities as well as being the industrial lead for the Successor programme.
Huge redevelopment plans have recently been completed in preparations for the £41 billion Dreadnought programme (to replace the Vanguard Class of submarine from 2028) with the construction of a new manufacturing facility which will eventually be used to outfit the Dreadnought submarines. These submarines, which will carry the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent, will be the largest and most advanced boats operated by the Royal Navy and their design and construction will be the most technologically complex in the history of the UK.
In March 2023, further announcements were made as part of the AUKUS trilateral agreement between Australia, the UK and the US. Australia and the UK will operate SSN-AUKUS as their submarines of the future, with funding of £3.95bn awarded from the UK Ministry of Defence for the next phase of the UK’s next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine programme.
In supporting the construction of both the remaining Astute Class submarines, the Dreadnought programme and AUKUS agreement, this event will not only be seeking current technologies but also equipment that is innovative and more cutting-edge than those ever used before.
To help serve that need suppliers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful.
Technology areas of interest we wish to focus on are:
Information Technology
- Project, Programme and Portfolio Management & Strategy (IT & Business)
- Requirements Management
- Planning & Project Controls
- Calculations and Analysis
- Business Resilience, Business Change and improvement, Business Resource Planning
- Business Process Integration and Automation
- Increased collaboration tools (virtual workspaces)
- Sustainable IT practices
Operational Technology/Site & Facilities
- Manufacturing and assembly
- Test and inspection
- Maintenance, decommissioning and disposal
- Facility and asset management
- Site & Workplace safety
- Environment management
- Automation and robotics
- AI-driven predictive maintenance
- Internet of things (IoT) integration
- Digital twins for simulation and optimisation
- Augmented reality for training and support
- Smart supply chain management
- Sustainability (energy management systems etc.)
Data & Analytics
- Bi & Analytics
- Data Management and Quality
- App development (low code, no code etc.)
- Real-time data processing
- Advanced AI and machine learning integration
- Automated data cleansing and preparation
- Augmented analytics
- Natural language processing
- Predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Enhanced data visualisation tools
- Data privacy and security
As the biggest nuclear event of its kind to be held in the North West of England each year Warrington each year – the first being introduced by Nu-Tech to the Birchwood Park in 1994 – we are proud of our record as the leading and longest-serving organiser of bespoke supplier exhibitions to the UK’s nuclear sector.
With an opportunity to ‘reach, re-engage and rebuild’ links with staff from across one of the biggest cluster of nuclear businesses in the UK, this will be a chance to demonstrate your capabilities and let an eager audience know what you’ve been up to over the last year.
Located in the heart of Birchwood Park, Warrington, the Nu-Tech Engineering & Technology Solutions Exhibition will offer suppliers a day of networking and contact-building opportunities with representatives from all levels of the nuclear supply chain and provide access to some of the most influential and solution-seeking individuals in the sector.
The event will be particularly useful if you are looking to expand into the nuclear arena as well as offer a route if you wish to promote transferable technology or launch new and innovative ideas. Visitors are expected from Sellafield Ltd, their supporting Tier 1, 2 & 3 contractors along with others in the nuclear supply chain.
Historically, companies with the following specialisms have benefited from exhibiting at this event:
- Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions
- Automation, Control, and Data Management
- Electrical & Electronic Components
- Nuclear Technology & Services
- Research, and Development
- Measurement & Testing Equipment
- Industrial Services & Maintenance
- Fluid & Process Equipment
- Inspection, Safety, and Training Solutions
- Specialised Tools & Components
- Industry 4.0 Technologies
In addition, we will again be working in collaboration with the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) as they prepare to host their regular focused group meetings for members and guest attendees in succession with the Nu-Tech exhibition. This partnership will ensure participants of both events can make best use of their time and resources over two-consecutive days.
The NIA group meetings focus on the key developments across the nuclear sector and act as a forum to share best practice, understand the strategic work programmes in the UK and abroad, as well as providing an opportunity for organisations to engage with the supply chain. Working in partnership with the NIA, participating companies and corporate visitors to the Engineering & Technology Exhibition will have an opportunity to combine the two activities and make their attendance at Birchwood a highly time efficient experience.
NIA members and non-member companies interested in attending the attending these meetings should visit: www.niauk.org/events/ for more information and the option to register.
Heysham Nuclear Power Station near Lancaster is the only site in the UK where EDF Energy has two operating nuclear power stations side by side.
Both stations are Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGR’s), a British designed and built reactor system first launched commercially in the 1970’s. The AGR was the second generation of British gas-cooled reactor using graphite as the neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as the coolant.
Now owned and operated by EDF Energy, Heysham 1 first started generating electricity in 1983 with Heysham 2 coming online just a few years later in 1988. Following a review, both power stations have recently been given an extension to their operational lifespan with Heysham 1 extended to 2026 and Heysham 2 to 2028.
There are around 1500 employees, including contract partners, based at Heysham who are involved in all aspects of operation, maintenance and functional activities. The safe and effective operation of both power stations remains highly important to EDF Energy as the company moves into the life extension period of both stations. Engaging with the supply chain to identify new products, transferable technologies and innovation will therefore support both Heysham 1 & 2 in this objective.
Companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event. Please indicate which items you can support:
- Ageing and obsolescence management
- Automation & control systems
- Cladding inspection and repair
- Corrosion Management
- Cranes & through wall drives
- Deconstruction and decommissioning
- Digitisation
- Inspection & vision systems
- IT and innovation
- Knowledge Transfer
- Labour saving technologies
- Pipework repair and maintenance (Inc. utilities)
- Plant maintenance equipment
- Remote & mechanical handling
- Remote inspection technology
- Underground pipe leak detection and repair techniques
- Emerging technologies such as Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, AI & VR
- Safety Equipment and Techniques
- Other (please specify)
In order to help Essar Oil UK, we will be looking for a range of products, services and areas of expertise from the supply chain in supporting this event.
Sited on a 770 hectare industrialised area of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, the Stanlow Oil Refinery is one of the largest oil refineries in Europe processing up to 9 million tonnes of crude oil and feedstock every year.
It is part of the Essar Group, a global and diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of steel, oil and gas, power, communications, shipping ports and logistics; and construction.
The Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Cheshire plays a strategic role in the UK economy, supplying 16% of all road transport fuels. It is also a major regional employer of staff and onsite contractors; and supports several thousand other people indirectly through the extended value chain.
With an array of processes to operate and maintain, including chemical facilities used to produce items such as propylene, Ethyl Benzene and detergent intermediates, the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex is a fully integrated and multi-faceted facility requiring support in many areas from asset lifecycle management through to development into new technologies and novel techniques.
Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.
Companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event:
- 3D printing
- Advanced corrosion monitoring
- Automated weld overlay
- Chemical cleaning
- Control valves/feedback devices
- Corrosion prevention
- Distillation trays/packing
- Durable high-performance materials/polymers
- Fluid filtration
- Heat recovery
- Inspection techniques/technology
- Instrument/Impulse Line plugging solutions
- Large fabrication/Coil forming
- Leak sealing solutions
- Lubrication technologies
- Non-destructive examination/testing
- Nuts/washers allowing use of ‘reactionless’ torque multipliers
- Sealing/insulation materials/techniques
- Steam ejectors
- Underground Cable Condition Assessment (HV/LV)
- Underground Cable Fault Detection (HV/LV)
- Water treatments/Solid separation
- Other (please specify)
Granta Park is a premier destination for innovation, located in the heart of the Cambridge Science Cluster. This thriving campus is home to over 2,500 professionals working across Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, and Materials Science – in state-of-the-art laboratories, R&D centres, and offices.
Leading organisations such as Illumina, Pfizer, Bicycle Therapeutics, Nxera Pharma, GHD, TWI, Sphere Fluidics are just a few of the world-class organisations based at Granta Park, alongside many other pioneering companies advancing science and technology every day.
In collaboration with Granta Park’s operators, TWI and BioMed Realty Trust Inc., this year’s exhibition will provide a dedicated platform to connect innovative suppliers with the site’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers.
The exhibition will be of particular interest to suppliers in support of:
- Genomic sequencing and genetic analysis.
- Biopharmaceutical innovation.
- Cutting-edge precision therapeutics.
- Advanced R&D in immuno-oncology and CNS disorders.
- Engineering, Material Science and joining technologies.
- And many more requirements in the Life Sciences, Engineering and Material Science field.
HM Naval Base Clyde – commonly known throughout the Navy as Faslane – is the Royal Navy’s main presence in Scotland. It is home to the core of the Submarine Service, including the nation’s nuclear deterrent, and the new generation of hunter-killer submarines.
As the Ministry of Defence’s commercial partner at HMNB Clyde, Babcock International provides highly specialist engineering support services, including the management of critical infrastructure and nuclear facilities.
Babcock also delivers operational maintenance, upgrades and repairs to support Royal Navy vessels, including the Vanguard and Astute-Class nuclear submarines based in Scotland.
HMNB Clyde waterfront activities also include supporting naval surface ships, with responsibility for managing engineering work on base-ported Mine Countermeasure Vessels and carrying out emergency and scheduled maintenance on other visiting Royal Navy and foreign naval vessels. A comprehensive facilities management service is also provided that covers building management, housekeeping and grounds maintenance, berthing and radioactive waste processing.
Please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which products and services might apply to you. If you do not supply any of the items listed please indicate what products and services you do offer which you think might be beneficial to this audience and we can confirm if exhibition space will be available.
Companies who can offer any of the following products or areas of expertise would be best suited to this event:
- Advanced welding techniques
- Pipe preparation
- Digital twin 3D modelling/ reverse engineering
- Pressure testing/ commissioning/ Gortex Sealing
- Leak monitoring/ detection
- Bungs/ pressure blanks
- Loose article control
- Quick Release couplings
- Replacement for radiography
- Under paint corrosion detection/ eddy current
- Under water NDE/ inspection
- 3D printer service providers
- Hydraulic flushing and filtering/ clean up
- Mechanical component cleaning
- Core and protection – paint films, waxes, covers
- Advanced machining
- Temporary repair Solutions
- Snapped stud extraction EG. spark corrosion
- Tooling asset control
- Fibre-optic repair
- Underwater paints and fillers
- Modern types of PPE
- Augmented reality training support solutions
- Calibration
- Radiation and environmental monitoring
- Confined space systems – improved ventilation
- Advanced tooling
- Air operated/ cordless tools
- Paint and corrosion removal
- Physical security (scanners)
- Diving and inspection cameras
- Pest control
- Training simulation
- Lifting, slinging and manual handling
- Advanced scaffolding solutions, towers and hop-ups
- Firefighting tools – modern techniques
- Asset tracking
- Robotics
- Pipe unblocking
- Cooler cleaning
- Thread replications – laser/putty (SSE)
- Fast track computer records system
- Laser ablation for paint removal and rust removal
- Use of alternatives to Chlorine injection for Sea Water system protection
- Brent replacement for secret access on jetty
- Ultrasonic Testing
- Hydrostatic Testing
- Vacuum Testing – Helium vacuum testing, Tracer gas sniffer test method
- Preservation capabilities for steam system pipes, hotwells etc.
- Radiation monitoring/ decontamination kits
- UAV/ROV
- Anti-drone capabilities
- Hydrostatic testing
- Pipe-unblocking
- Asset tracking
- Temporary Repair solutions
- Hydraulic flushing & clean up
HMNB Portsmouth is home to 70% of the Royal Navy’s surface ships, including the new QE Class aircraft carriers, the formidable Type 45 destroyers, Type 23 Frigates, Hunt Class Mine Countermeasure vessels and fishery protection squadrons.
BAE Systems is part of the team that will deliver the five year Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP) alongside the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the Royal Navy at HMNB Portsmouth.
The company was selected by the MOD to deliver the Ship Engineering Delivery & Management contract – a joint venture between BAE Systems and KBR, known as KBS Maritime – and was awarded the Hard Facilities Management (FM) & Alongside Services contract at Portsmouth. Together the two contracts are valued up to £1.3 billion.
Under the FMSP contract, BAE Systems will continue ship asset management, repair and maintenance for the Royal Navy’s Portsmouth flotilla as well as infrastructure, asset management and services. This will support the Royal Navy’s capabilities, including the new aircraft carriers and will deliver improved availability, resilience and certainty of delivery.
As part of this arrangement BAE Systems will continue to transform to meet the Royal Navy’s evolving requirements with an emphasis on performance, innovation and availability including the use of new digital and data technologies. This will ensure that Royal Navy personnel benefit from enhanced services and facilities whilst on land or at sea.
In 2021, BAE Systems was also awarded a £900 million contract by the MOD for Ship Engineering management and delivery at HMNB Portsmouth.
Porton Down in Wiltshire is home to two British Government facilities – the MOD’s Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). It is also the location of the Porton Science Campus which was established in 2018 to develop into a major centre of excellence in Life Sciences, Biotechnology and Defence Technologies. The Science Campus is now also expanding to support and promote innovation and collaboration in science and technology.
We are seeking supply chain products and areas of expertise that may be able to support these key organisations.
The Government has recently announced 25 programmes and 4 new projects within the Defence Science and Technology Portfolio that have significant funding and collaborative opportunities for industry and academia.
Over the next 4 years, the MOD will invest at least £6.6 billion in research and development (R&D) and this Science and Technology Portfolio will ensure defence sustains operational advantage, can make the right decisions, and generate prosperity for the UK.
Many of the programmes and projects will be delivered by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), but partners in industry and academia will be crucial to delivery with significant funding available and opportunities to collaborate.
These focussed programmes are currently identified as:
- Advanced Materials
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Air Systems
- Autonomy
- Chemical Biological and Radiological (CBR) Defence
- Communications and Networks
- Crime and Policing
- Cyber Security
- Defence Science and Technology Futures
- Deterrent and Submarine Systems
- Electromagnetic (EM) Activities
- Future Kinetic Effects and Weapons (FKEW)
- Future Sensing
- Future Workforce and Training
- High Level Decision Support
- Human Performance and Protection
- Hypersonics
- Influence and Future Command and Control (C2)
- Land Systems
- Maritime Systems
- Missile Defence
- Security Systems
- Space Systems
- Specialist Systems
- Support and Sustainability
The four project areas are:
- Engineering Biology
- Human Augmentation
- PULSAR
- Support to Operations and Crises
The details of these programmes and projects can be found in the following link: Ministry of Defence’s Science and Technology portfolio.
Additionally in serving the needs of the UKHSA and and other Life Science tenant businesses based on the Porton Science Park, we are also looking for companies that can offer Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Technologies. These may be products surrounding digital innovation as well as other manufacturing process equipment.
To gauge the level of interest from companies keen to showcase their capabilities to a Porton Down audience, please register your interest in exhibiting at this event and indicate which capability areas you think your products and services might support.
Daresbury Laboratory, part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), is renowned for its world leading scientific research in fields such as bio-medicine, physics, chemistry, materials, accelerator technology, engineering and computational science. STFC Daresbury Laboratory is located within the SciTech Daresbury National Science & Innovation Campus (Sci-Tech Park) near Warrington, Cheshire.
The STFC Laboratory is responsible for several largescale facilities and has expertise in such fields as:
- Synchrotron Light Exploitation
- Accelerator Science
- Advanced Instrumentation
- Advanced Engineering
- High performance Computing
- Nuclear Physics
- Modelling Simulation
STFC’s facilities at Daresbury Laboratory also include:
- The Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC)
- STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre
- CLARA Particle Accelerator
- Electron Beam Test Facility
- VISTA Thin Film Facility
- Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC)
- Scientific Computing Department
- Hartree Centre for supercomputing
- The Nuclear Physics Group
- Engineering Technology Capabilities
The Sci-Tech Daresbury campus is also home to over 100 high-tech companies employed in areas such as advanced engineering, digital/ICT, biomedical, energy and environmental technologies, instrumentation/ electronics, packaging, chemicals, analytical technology and the nuclear sector. Staff from both STFC and the adjacent high-tech companies on the Park will be invited to visit this exhibition.
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, operated by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is one of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary research hubs.
RAL hosts world-class research facilities, advises the government on their development, and manages international projects. Key STFC facilities include the Central Laser Facility and ISIS neutron and muon source, the latter of which is expanding with a £90 million programme to boost its capacity. Further investment of £1.8 billion has also been earmarked to modernise STFC’s infrastructure over the next 15 years offering additional opportunities for suppliers.
The Diamond Light Source, which also shares the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site, is the UK’s largest scientific facility funded primarily by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through STFC and the Wellcome Trust. While Diamond operates independently conducting research into physics, chemistry, and materials science, it often collaborates with STFC in its work. Diamond is also undergoing a £519 million upgrade (Diamond-II) to enhance its capabilities.
To help serve that need, UK-based manufacturers and producers of the following products and services may find exhibiting at this event useful:
Science & Technology areas of interest we wish to focus on are:
- Vacuum Systems & Components – High and ultra-high vacuum chambers, pumps, and seals for beamlines and experimental setups.
- Cryogenics & Cooling Systems – Helium and nitrogen cryostats, superconducting magnets, and cooling infrastructure.
- Precision Engineering & Motion Control – High-accuracy positioning systems, linear actuators, and nanopositioning stages.
- Optics & Photonics – X-ray optics, mirrors, monochromators, laser systems, and lenses for beam manipulation.
- Detectors & Imaging Systems – X-ray detectors, CCD and CMOS cameras, and spectroscopy equipment.
- RF & High-Power Electronics – Radiofrequency cavities, klystrons, and high-voltage power supplies for accelerator systems.
- Computing & Data Processing – HPC (High-Performance Computing), data storage, AI/ML tools for big data analysis.
- Materials & Sample Environment – Specialised sample holders, cryogenic and high-temperature materials, and shielding materials.
- Automation & Robotics – Sample handling robots, remote operation systems, and automated control interfaces.
- Scientific Software & Simulation – Modelling software for beam dynamics, material science, and data analysis.
- Mechanical & Structural Engineering – Custom fabrications, heavy-duty support structures, and seismic isolation systems.
- Power & Energy Management – High-stability power supplies, backup generators, and sustainable energy solutions.
Working in partnership with the RGA User Group, the 2026 exhibition at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will be held in conjunction with the UK’s prestigious 15th Vacuum Symposium – an event that attracts scientists, engineers and technologists from across the UK in a single location to consider applications, advances, innovation and emerging technologies in the field of vacuum science & technology.
If you would like further information about the Vacuum Symposium or would like to be a delegate, please visit https://www.vacuum-uk.org
Global Science & Research Infrastructure Exchange (GSRIX) 2026 – 1st December 2026 – Concorde Conference Centre, Altrincham, WA15 8AS
Bringing together procurement teams, engineers and scientists from multiple UK and international laboratories and research facilities, including STFC, for exclusive one-to-one appointments, GSRIX 2026 provides suppliers with an exceptional opportunity to:
- Showcase your capabilities to world-leading national & international research organisations actively seeking UK suppliers.
- Understand upcoming procurement needs across large-scale, cutting-edge projects in nuclear, radio astronomy, particle physics, neutron scattering, and more.
- Forge meaningful relationships with influential technical and procurement decision-makers.
- Gain direct insight into how your products and services could support major science infrastructures across Europe and beyond.
This is your gateway to a global science marketplace which has the potential to turn a day of exhibiting into a pipeline of national & international opportunities.
To book your exhibition space visit: https://www.scienceexhibitions.co.uk/GSRIXEvent/
Since its origins in the 1940’s, Springfields has provided nuclear fuel, chemical and mechanical fabrication for LWR, AGR and Magnox fuel, and conversion services for Uranium Hexafloride.
As the first plant in the world to produce fuel for a commercial nuclear power station, the site has produced several million fuel elements and supplied products and services to customers in 11 countries since 1946. On 1 April 2010 Westinghouse entered into an agreement with the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) for a long-term lease of the Springfields site, which transferred responsibility for the commercial fuel manufacturing business and Springfields Fuels Limited to Westinghouse.
Main activities on the site include:
- Manufacture of oxide fuels for Advanced Gas-cooled and Light Water Reactors, as well as intermediate fuel products, such as powders, granules and pellets
- Uranium recovery services
- Decommissioning and demolition of redundant plants and buildings
We will be working with Westinghouse in providing a supplier exhibition to support their current and upcoming needs. These will focus on products and equipment typically associated with process, chemical and manufacturing technology.
In particular, companies offering the following professional and plant services may find benefit in attending this event:
- PLC – Instrumentation
- Design
- Safety Case Management
- Contracting Services including Asset Care
- Remediation
- New Build
- Infrastructure Services
- D & D (Decommissioning)
- Engineering
- Nuclear Instruments
Additionally, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) also has staff on the Springfields Site working in nuclear physics and advanced reactors, design and manufacture nuclear fuels, providing specialist analytical services and process chemistry. It is a key part of the UK’s nuclear infrastructure and a strategic national asset undertaking research work in areas such as environmental restoration and health & nuclear medicine.
Westinghouse and NNL staff together with site-based contractors will be invited to attend this event.
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If you’d like to showcase your products, services or innovations at any of our 2026 industrial exhibitions, we invite you to register your interest today.