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March 20th 2020

IF and Graffiti Recruitment partnership offers digital training to deprived communities, improving their employment chances.

A great example of partnership showing real and practical social impact in West and North Belfast. IF have teamed up with our customer Graffiti Recruitment to provide marketing, business development and digital strategy workshops to enhance the digital and technological skills of young people within our local community. A number […]

March 3rd 2020

Customer Stories: Kitchen Design House Ltd

The company is owned by Karen Connolly. We spoke to Karen about how she came to open an office in the Innovation Factory with her sister Deborah, their current priorities and her future ambitions for Kitchen design House Ltd. How did you start your business? The business was previously established […]

February 10th 2020

Customer Stories: Champion Designs

We spoke to owner Nadine Kearns about why she went into self-employment, what she is currently working on, what she particularly likes about being based at IF and her ambitions for the future of the company.   How did you start Champion Designs? It was an interest and a talent […]

January 22nd 2020

Management training company secures contract with Indian university

A Belfast-based management training company has broken into the vast Indian educational training market securing a £500,000 contract with a university in Mumbai and is currently negotiating further projects in the world’s fastest growing economy. Global Management Academy, based at Innovation Factory in West Belfast, set up its first online […]

January 22nd 2020

Medical company to create five new jobs after securing major export partners

A Belfast company that invented a ground-breaking new non-contact thermometer for use in hospitals is set to create five new jobs after securing major export partners in 11 new countries. Medical technology experts TriMedika™, located at the Innovation Factory in West Belfast, has created TRITEMP™ a new hi-tech, non-contact infrared […]

October 23rd 2019

Cameras roll at Innovation Factory

Filming has just completed on Nowhere Special, the new movie by Uberto Pasolini (Still Life, The Full Monty) starring James Norton, known for his highly acclaimed roles in Happy Valley and the upcoming Little Women. Inspired by true events, in Nowhere Special, James Norton stars as thirty five-year-old window cleaner […]