Title
Innovative Wood Composite Poles

CoPED ID
3f8c123a-ed24-489d-b533-557287af749a

Status
Closed


Value
£589,735

Start Date
April 30, 2016

End Date
March 31, 2017

Description

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This project is designed to provide scientific underpinning to the development of a unique structural pole,

which will have wide application when developed across the built environment. Pollywood Ltd have immediate

interest for the development of a replacement for the creosoted transmission pole from the Energy Innovation

Centre, who co-ordinate research for the Distribution Network Operators (DNOs). There is legal/environmental

pressure from the EU to replace these poles and therefore a pressing need to find an effective alternative.

Existing competitors to the wood pole have other issues, which make them sub-optimal. Transmission poles

have to have long lives in a wide range of conditions including extremes of heat and cold. Solving this problem

will create social and economic benefits including jobs in an area, which has lost many steel industry jobs as

well an export opportunity for the UK.

POLLYWOOD LTD LEAD_ORG
POLLYWOOD LTD PARTICIPANT_ORG
BANGOR UNIVERSITY N WALES PARTICIPANT_ORG

Quentin Kopp PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Export
  2. Innovations

Extracted key phrases
  1. Innovative Wood Composite Poles
  2. Unique structural pole
  3. Transmission pole
  4. Wood pole
  5. Scientific underpinning
  6. Project
  7. Wide application
  8. Distribution Network Operators
  9. Steel industry job
  10. Development
  11. Wide range
  12. Pollywood Ltd
  13. Effective alternative
  14. Long life
  15. Energy Innovation

Related Pages

UKRI project entry

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