Sci-Tech Daresbury welcomed a record number of businesses to its science and innovation campus in 2016, it has revealed.

A total of 31 companies either located or relocated to the campus (pictured) during the year, meaning that there are now 114 businesses onsite.

Sci-Tech Daresbury is a private-public joint-venture partnership between developer Langtree, the Science and Technology Facilities Council and Halton Borough Council.

John Downes, group managing director of Langtree and chairman of the Sci-Tech Daresbury joint venture company, said: "Sci-Tech Daresbury has been set up in a way that collaboration, co-development and business support makes a big impact on all the companies and organisations who locate here.

"The campus is deliberately designed to encourage connectivity between individual businesses, academic institutions and public sector bodies and for many this collaborative culture is a key reason to locate at Sci-Tech Daresbury.

"Essentially it's about the sharing of ideas, networks and knowledge.

"When you match this open collaborative culture and leading industry expertise with the world-class technical facilities of the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Daresbury laboratory, you create exceptional capabilities which businesses are able to tap into to maximise growth and often with potentially world-changing results."

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