Fermentation companies use microorganisms and controlled biological processes to produce proteins, ingredients, chemicals, materials and other valuable products. Their technologies support biotechnology, food production, industrial manufacturing and the transition towards more sustainable production methods.
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Browse 59 UK fermentation companies below.
Capacitance-based biomass monitoring instruments for bioprocessing and brewing
Aber Instruments develops and manufactures online probes and instrumentation for real-time viable cell monitoring in bioprocessing and brewing applications. The company's…
Precision fermentation platform producing animal-free dairy proteins
Better Dairy is a biotechnology company using precision fermentation to produce animal-free dairy proteins including casein and osteopontin. By engineering yeast to express…
Bioprocess equipment supplier and maintenance services provider
BioProcess Engineering Services Limited (BPES) is a UK supplier of specialist equipment and support services to the biotechnology industry. It provides products and services…
Synthetic biology platform for sustainable biological textile dyeing
Colorifix is a UK biotechnology company applying synthetic biology to develop a biological dyeing process for the textile industry. The company engineers microorganisms to…
Automated bioreactor system for microbial culturing and measurement
ogibiotec is a life science instrumentation company developing automated, modular bioreactor systems for microbial culturing. Its platform replicates manual flask-culturing…
Engineering biology CRDMO for pharma and industrial biotech
Ingenza is a contract research, development, and manufacturing organisation applying engineering biology to solve manufacturing challenges across pharmaceuticals and industrial…
Fermentation-derived food ingredients from agricultural waste streams
Fermtech is a biotechnology company that applies solid-state fungal fermentation to upcycle agricultural and brewing waste streams into food ingredients. Its lead product is…
Cultivated animal fat ingredient for meat alternatives
Hoxton Farms is a cellular agriculture company producing cultivated pork fat as an ingredient for meat alternatives and processed food products. Using animal stem cells grown in…
Yeast strain engineering platform for recombinant protein biomanufacturing
Phenotypeca is a synthetic biology company that engineers baker's yeast strains for the production of recombinant proteins, biosimilars, and vaccine antigens. Using proprietary…
Precision fermentation platform for novel protein-based flavour ingredients
ReNewFood is an industrial biotech developing protein-based flavouring ingredients for the alternative food market using precision fermentation. Engineered microbial hosts serve…
Fermentation-derived mycoprotein ingredient for sustainable food production
ENOUGH is a Glasgow-based industrial biotechnology company producing a complete protein ingredient made by fermenting fungi with grain-derived sugars. The zero-waste continuous…
Compostable polymer materials produced through microbial fermentation
Shellworks is a materials biotechnology company that develops and manufactures a bio-based, home-compostable polymer produced through microbial fermentation of plant-derived waste…