Technical Advice

Your business may sometimes need specialist technical support to help you deal with engineering, product and process, and manufacturing issues, or comply with product, environmental and workplace health and safety regulations. Invest NI’s support in these areas is mainly advisory and open to any business, but financial support is sometimes available.

What areas can we advise on?

We can provide guidance on:

• engineering and manufacturing - materials selection, technical requirements, product testing, approval and performance
• production line - raw materials, quality control, packaging, regulation and compliance
• technical information - industrial and manufacturing standards
• health and safety - legislation, risk assessments, control measures
• CE Marking
• quality management systems
• building commercial, technical and R&D partnerships across Europe
• R&D funding opportunities in the UK and European Union
• environment - regulation, compliance and resource efficiency processes.

We can also organise a technical audit, which is a health check on your energy, environment and resource efficiency.

What financial support do we offer?

We may be able to offer financial assistance for projects relating to many of the areas outlined above. We assess applications for financial support on a case by case basis and your business will be expected to pay a proportion of the cost of the assistance.

Your next step

If you are interested in getting advice and support relating to technical issues, please fill in our short enquiry form or call us on 0800 181 4422.