Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

About

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) helps agri-tech, farming and food businesses develop, scale and adopt new technologies to improve productivity, resilience and competitiveness.

As an independent Research and Technology Organisation, we bring manufacturing expertise into the agri-food sector, helping businesses turn innovative ideas into practical, commercially deployable solutions. Our capabilities span robotics and automation, autonomous systems, AI and machine vision, digital technologies, product design and engineering, manufacturing scale-up and industrialisation.

We work with businesses across the technology journey, from design, prototyping and validation through to manufacturing readiness, technology integration and commercial deployment. We also help established farming and food businesses identify where technology can make the greatest difference, including assessing labour-intensive or inefficient processes and developing automation roadmaps.

Our approach is independent and technology-agnostic, helping businesses de-risk investment decisions and find solutions that are right for their operation rather than promoting a particular technology or supplier. Through our cross-sector engineering expertise and wider technology network, we can apply knowledge and solutions proven in other industries to some of the toughest challenges facing agriculture and food production.

From field robotics and autonomous systems to packhouse automation, precision agriculture, AI-enabled crop assessment and manufacturing scale-up, our focus is on making technology work in practice and helping innovative solutions progress towards wider commercial adoption