Pilot and scale-up production in Teesside and the North East

Bioprocess scale-up

Our bioprocess capability is used across both microbial fermentation development and mammalian cell development.

Centre for Process Innovation — National Biologics Manufacturing Centre, Darlington

How you get in: Collaborative or contract project agreement with CPI

Conditions: Project-by-project agreement

Source: CPI - National Biologics Manufacturing Centre · verified 2026-08-19

Pilot-scale fermentation

Fermentation at hundreds to thousands of litres with downstream recovery

Centre for Process Innovation — National Industrial Biotechnology Facility — Wilton and Darlington, Teesside

How you get in: Contract development project or grant-funded consortium

Conditions: Booked capacity; lead times and cost are the binding constraint, not existence

Source: CPI Biotechnology · verified 2026-08-19

Cell and gene therapy manufacture to GMP

GMP-grade cleanroom manufacture for advanced therapies

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult manufacturing centre — Stevenage

How you get in: Contracted tenancy or manufacturing agreement with the centre

Conditions: Capacity is contracted well ahead; entry requires a defined process and a regulatory pathway

Source: Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult · verified 2026-08-19

Pilot production

Pilot-scale production of a novel material outside laboratory quantities

Materials Processing Institute — Middlesbrough, Teesside

How you get in: Commercial contract research

Conditions: Out of Zone

Source: Materials Processing Institute · verified 2026-08-19

Pilot-scale fermentation (Scotland route)

Alternative regional pilot fermentation and bioprocess scale-up

IBioIC / FlexBio scale-up centre, Heriot-Watt University — Edinburgh

How you get in: IBioIC membership or contracted project

Conditions: Membership or project agreement required

Source: Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre · verified 2026-08-19

Downstream processing & formulation

Separation, purification and formulation at pilot scale

Centre for Process Innovation — Wilton, Teesside

How you get in: Contract development project

Source: CPI Biotechnology · verified 2026-08-19

Battery industrialisation

Pre-production battery cell scale-up between lab and gigafactory

UK Battery Industrialisation Centre — Coventry

How you get in: Contracted industrialisation project

Conditions: Capacity is contracted; queueing applies

Source: UK Battery Industrialisation Centre · verified 2026-08-19

Formulation and process scale-up

Scale-up of formulated materials and coatings

CPI — Sedgefield and Wilton, Teesside

How you get in: Commercial contract with CPI

Conditions: Out of Zone. Same national provider already recorded for Engineering Biology — a shared national asset, not a duplicate facility

Source: CPI · verified 2026-08-19

Biologics and biopharmaceutical process scale-up

Pilot-to-commercial scale bioprocessing outside a company own plant

CPI National Biologics Manufacturing Centre — Darlington

How you get in: Contracted development or manufacturing project with CPI

Conditions: Booked project by project; not open-access facility time

Source: CPI · verified 2026-08-19

Component manufacture

Turning a validated material into a manufacturable component

University of Sheffield AMRC — Rotherham, South Yorkshire

How you get in: Membership or commercial project

Conditions: Out of Zone

Source: AMRC · verified 2026-08-19

Volume cell manufacturing

Gigafactory-scale cell production

AESC Sunderland (operating and expanding); Agratas Somerset (under construction) — Sunderland; Bridgwater

How you get in: Commercial supply agreement

Conditions: Somerset capacity depends on construction completion later this decade; offtake terms apply

Source: UK Battery Strategy, HM Government · verified 2026-08-19