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Centre For Factories of The Future Limited

UK company 03162200, incorporated on 21 February 1996.

Centre for Factories of the Future

Centre For Factories of The Future Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 1996 based in West Midlands.

Company number
03162200
Incorporated
21 Feb 1996
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
21 February 1996

Company number 03162200

Verify at Companies House
Legal name
CENTRE FOR FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE LIMITED
Company type
LTD
Region
West Midlands
Registered address
Unknown
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

2 events
22 Sep
2026

Accounts With Accounts Type Total Exemption Full

Accounts Analysed

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Published 22 Sep 2026 14:56

21 Feb
1996

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

10 awards
First funded
2007
Funded years
2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2023, 2024, 2026
Age at first award
10 years

Projects

2026 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

AI-Driven Enhancement of Online Safety: Protecting Children by Disrupting CSAM Links (CSAMGuard+)

1 May 2026 to 30 Apr 2029

Awarded
£382,712
Total cost £546,731

CSAMGuard+ is an AI-powered project that aims to enhance online safety for children by combating Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) across different digital environments. The project is driven by the rapid proliferation of CSAM on social media, messaging apps, and cloud storage, coupled with the limitations of traditional detection methods in tackling the...

2026 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

FERtigation Irrigation DEcisive Farming (FERIDE)

1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2029

Awarded
£477,294
Total cost £681,848

The FERIDE project addresses one of the most pressing challenges in modern agriculture: increasing food production sustainably while using water, fertilisers, and energy more efficiently. Climate change, water scarcity, and rising input costs are putting farmers under significant pressure, and current irrigation and nutrient management practices often lea...

2024 Launchpad Lead participant

Virtual Reality Maritime Safety Training: Navigating Emergency Scenarios in Confined Spaces (VR Emergency @Sea)

1 Apr 2024 to 30 Sep 2025

Awarded
£255,902
Total cost £365,575

Embark on a ground-breaking journey towards maritime safety with our cutting-edge project: the Virtual Reality (VR) Training Application for Enclosed Spaces at Sea. This innovative initiative is designed to revolutionize safety training for maritime professionals, focusing on the challenges posed by emergencies within confined ship spaces. Objective: Our ...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

CSAMGuard: Leveraging Advanced Machine Learning to Protect Against CSAM Link Obfuscation

1 Jun 2023 to 29 Feb 2024

Awarded
£120,000
Total cost £120,000

The CSAMGuard project presents an innovative approach to combat Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) by focusing on the detection and prevention of CSAM link shortening and modification through the use of a machine learning (ML) model. This method promises enhanced accuracy and a reduction in false positives compared to traditional approaches like blacklist...

2015 Collaborative R&D

Development of an Autonomous & Intelligent Supply Chain Overall Resource Effectiveness (SCORE) tool for improving resource usage efficiency & reducing waste production in food and drink supply chains

1 Nov 2015 to 31 Oct 2018

Awarded
£199,244
Total cost £332,074

The project aim is to develop, for the food & drink sector, innovative technology that provides greatly enhanced resource usage efficiency & reduction in waste production both within individual food & drink companies but also across their supply chains. The Supply Chain Overall Resource Effectiveness (SCORE) system developed will extend existing performan...

2015 SME Support Lead participant

Centre for Factories of the future ltd (add on to 102326)

1 Aug 2015 to 30 Sep 2015

Awarded
£600
Total cost £600

Awaiting Public Project Summary

2013 Collaborative R&D

Development of an Innovative Autonomous & Intelligent Demand Management Tool (AIDMT) for Refrigerated and Shelf-Life Constrained Food Supply Chains

1 Jul 2013 to 30 Sep 2016

Awarded
£121,079
Total cost £312,244

Within refrigerated and shelf-life constrained food supply chains extremely high levels of demand fluctuations arise preventing organisations achieving the high levels of customer service required by large retail customers whilst ensuring high levels of waste are not produced. In order to resolve these problems more effective management of demand is requi...

2011 Collaborative R&D

Development of an Autonomous Systems Development Tool (ASDT) for application within manufacturing operations-planning

1 Sep 2011 to 28 Feb 2015

Awarded
£57,801
Total cost £166,950

This ASDT Project (Autoplan) is designed to remove the failings of existing operations planning systems in managing highly variable manufacturing environments. In such organisations the high frequency with which process and supply chain disruptions occur and changes in product design and customer demands happen, form major barriers to increasing the compe...

2010 Collaborative R&D

Intelligent Transport Systems and Services: Informed Logistics

1 Jul 2010 to 31 Dec 2012

Awarded
£76,006
Total cost £236,999

This project aims to provide a software platform for companies to match empty vehicles and space to available loads in its simplest form. Too many commercial vehicles globally run empty or partially empty for parts of their journey. This software aims to reduce the total amount of empty running by load matching and thus reduce carbon emissions. The projec...

2007 Collaborative R&D

Improving customer demand and cost forecasting methods

1 Feb 2007 to 31 Jul 2010

Awarded
£118,748
Total cost £340,156

Awaiting Public Summary

Product types

Collaborative R&D Launchpad SME Support