Partnership eyes up £4m agritech opportunity

A new partnership has formed with its eyes on the agritech industry, hoping to clinch £4m of new orders.
PP Control & Automation (PP C&A) is collaborating with Jaltek to target up to £4m of new orders with UK organisations involved in indoor/vertical farming, automation, precision farming and remote sensing.
If the predicted growth materialises then the additional revenue will help both firms create new jobs at their factories in Cheslyn Hay and Luton.
Garry Myatt, Sales Director at PP C&A said: “Agritech has grown 20% over the last five years and is seeing lots of investment, with £919.1m of Innovate UK grant funding directed its way in recent years.
“There is a surging demand for new technology and the PP x Jaltek partnership is set-up to streamline the path from blueprint to the field, working with innovators and companies to navigate the complexities around design, manufacture and funding.”
“This collaboration is not just about assembling mechanical parts or circuit boards. It’s about providing the sector with the arsenal to scale up swiftly and sustainably, turning good ideas into the very fabric of agricultural innovation.”
PP C&A, which employs over 230 people at its Cheslyn Hay factory, has evolved into an award-winning provider of strategic outsourcing solutions to over 30 of the world’s most successful machine builders.
Claire Mackay, business development manager at Jaltek said: “This is a fantastic example of two UK manufacturers joining forces to deliver a solution that a fast-growing market is looking for.
“There is so much innovation in this country, but a lot of the time it is commercialised elsewhere. We want to reverse that trend and feel agritech is the perfect sector for us to pioneer this new approach.”
This will boost an existing working relationship with WMG and international discussions with Wageningen University & Research in Holland and the Simon Frazer University Centre for AgriTech Innovation (BCCAI) in British Columbia.