Holovast Awarded Innovate UK Funding for AI-Driven Return Packaging Visibility
Holovast secures Innovate UK funding for AIRPAV, a feasibility study aimed at improving returnable packaging visibility, resource efficiency, and manufacturing resilience.
London, UK - 1 February 2026: HOLOVAST Ltd has been awarded Innovate UK funding for AIRPAV (AI Returnable Packaging Visibility), a feasibility study focused on resource efficiency and manufacturing resilience.
The project is supported under Innovate UK's Resource Efficiency for Resilience and Sustainability competition, which funds UK businesses to validate high-impact innovation opportunities before full-scale deployment.
AIRPAV is designed to address a practical industry challenge: limited visibility of returnable packaging across supplier, production, and return cycles. These gaps can contribute to avoidable delays, working-capital pressure, and disruption at the point of use.
As part of this feasibility phase, HOLOVAST will define pilot-ready evidence criteria with manufacturing stakeholders, including how progress should be measured in operational performance, resource efficiency, and adoption readiness.
Johnson Oluwadele, Founder and CTO of HOLOVAST, said:
"This award allows us to validate AIRPAV with clear, measurable outcomes and a deployment pathway grounded in shop-floor reality." The company will share further updates as the feasibility programme progresses through its planned project milestones.
About Innovate UK
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About HOLOVAST Ltd
Holovast develops a governed operational knowledge and execution platform for physical work. It turns approved source material into reviewed workflows, delivers them through browser, tablet, or AR, and uses configured step evidence to control progression and correction. Holovast governs what AI may instruct, what a person or agent may act on, what evidence is required, and whether physical work may proceed.
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