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Actuation Lab Ltd

UK company 11415741, incorporated on 14 June 2018.

Actuation Lab | Rethinking Industrial Hardware

Actuation Lab is spearheading an effort to combine the latest innovations in materials, manufacturing and origami-inspired design to create low-wear hardware for a more efficient planet.

Company number
11415741
Incorporated
14 Jun 2018
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
14 June 2018

Company number 11415741

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Legal name
ACTUATION LAB LTD
Company type
LTD
Region
South West England
Registered address
Unknown
Insolvency history
No

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2025

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Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
18

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

2 events
06 Aug
2026

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14 Jun
2018

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

4 awards
First funded
2020
Funded years
2020, 2021, 2023, 2025
Age at first award
2 years

Projects

2025 Legacy Department of Trade & Industry Lead participant

Project DragonFly – Cryogenic Hydrogen Valves for Aerospace

1 May 2025 to 30 Apr 2027

Awarded
£821,771
Total cost £1,173,959

Project Dragonfly will develop a cryogenic liquid hydrogen (LH2) flow control valve for use on the next generation of zero emission aircraft. The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) identifies LH2 as the most promising solution for cost-effective zero-emissions flight. The project tackles a key barrier to the roll out of LH2 aircraft, lack of suitable va...

2023 BEIS-Funded Programmes Lead participant

Project Dragonfly

1 Oct 2023 to 31 Mar 2025

Awarded
£147,000
Total cost £210,000

Project Dragonfly will develop Actuation Lab's innovative, origami-inspired valve design to meet the challenging requirements of commercial hydrogen aircraft. Emissions from long-haul travel using kerosene aircraft fuel totalled 336 million tonnes CO2e in 2019\. Converting this fleet to hydrogen is a potentially viable alternative that would eliminate the...

2021 Study Lead participant

Actuation Lab - Engineering Actuators for the World's Most Extreme Environments

1 Mar 2021 to 31 Aug 2022

Awarded
£177,769
Total cost £253,956

Actuation Lab is engineering the world's most powerful actuators for extreme environments. Actuators are engineered devices that make machines move. Actuation Lab has developed a revolutionary fluid powered actuator technology, the Callimorph, designed from the ground up to best exploit the unique properties of modern composite materials. The ultra-lightw...

2020 Small Business Research Initiative Lead participant

Flow Control for a Net Zero World

1 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2020

Awarded
£48,944
Total cost £48,944

COVID-19 has shown how fragile our reliance on manual labour for operation and maintenance of industrial assets and infrastructure can be. As organisations recover from COVID-19 and look to improve resilience by automating more aspects of their operation, it's critical that the automation solutions they employ have a positive environmental impact. Across ...

Product types

BEIS-Funded Programmes Legacy Department of Trade & Industry Small Business Research Initiative Study