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• Pilot production line
• Bioprocess scale-up
• Chemical and materials scale-up
• Battery and energy scale-up
• Semiconductor and photonics pilot fab

Where: glasgow (2) · leeds (2) · london (1) · teesside humber (1) · oxford (1) · manchester (1)

• Pilot production

  Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

  Bioprocess scale-up · London, Greater London

  Availability must be confirmed

  Capability is recorded. Whether it is free is a conversation with the organisation.

  “The Manufacturing Innovation Centre provides modular GMP manufacturing capacity and technology transfer support to companies developing advanced therapies.”

  Holds bioprocess scale-up capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Recorded way in: Provider explicitly offers manufacturing and technology transfer to external companies, with collaborators retaining their intellectual property.

  Evidence: ct.catapult.org.uk · source stage-e-first-party · last checked 2026-08-19

• Pilot production

  Scottish Centre for Industrial Biotechnology (IBioIC)

  Bioprocess scale-up · Glasgow

  Exists

  UKIZ records that this capability exists. It holds nothing about who may use it.

  “The IBioIC MSc builds a strong foundation in the core science and engineering of industrial biotechnology, then takes you deeper into advanced and emerging topics from bioprocess design and fermentation science to sustainability strategy and commercial application.”

  Holds bioprocess scale-up capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Evidence: ibioic.com · source research-institutes · last checked 2026-08-18

• Pilot production

  Biorenewables Development Centre

  Bioprocess scale-up · York

  Exists

  UKIZ records that this capability exists. It holds nothing about who may use it.

  Holds bioprocess scale-up capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Evidence: biorenewables.org · source research-institutes · last checked 2026-08-18

• Pilot production

  Centre for Process Innovation

  Bioprocess scale-up · Teesside & the Humber, North East / Yorkshire and the Humber

  Availability must be confirmed

  Capability is recorded. Whether it is free is a conversation with the organisation.

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

  Holds bioprocess scale-up capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Recorded way in: Provider explicitly offers biologics and RNA process development and manufacturing to external companies.

  Evidence: uk-cpi.com · source catapult-network · last checked 2026-08-18

• Pilot production

  Faraday Institution

  Battery and energy scale-up · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

  Exists

  UKIZ records that this capability exists. It holds nothing about who may use it.

  “He was responsible at Dyson for cathode materials selection and pouch cell testing for high-power applications.”

  Holds battery and energy scale-up capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Evidence: faraday.ac.uk · source research-institutes · last checked 2026-08-18

• Pilot production

  Advanced manufacturing Catapult capability, North West

  Bioprocess scale-up · Manchester, North West

  Availability must be confirmed

  Capability is recorded. Whether it is free is a conversation with the organisation.

  “CPI (National Biologics Manufacturing Centre)”

  Holds bioprocess scale-up capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Recorded way in: Capability recorded from a network-level page. No provider statement of external access at a named site has been verified.

  Evidence: hvm.catapult.org.uk · source catapult-network · last checked 2026-08-18

• Pilot production

  National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

  Pilot production line · Glasgow & the Central Belt, Scotland

  Exists

  UKIZ records that this capability exists. It holds nothing about who may use it.

  “Contact us Get in touch Our work We're championing the approach of embracing lighter-weight, more sustainable materials through our three testbeds; FutureFibre, Sustainable Composites, and the Reconfigurable Pilot Line.”

  Holds pilot production line capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Evidence: nmis.scot · source ukri-infrastructure · last checked 2026-08-18

• Pilot production

  Biorenewables Development Centre

  Pilot production line · York

  Exists

  UKIZ records that this capability exists. It holds nothing about who may use it.

  “Pilot plant equipment and expertise We enable you to realise the value of your bio-based materials including various waste streams and help develop these techniques to process or extract natural material.”

  Holds pilot production line capability, evidenced on the organisation's own site

  Evidence: biorenewables.org · source research-institutes · last checked 2026-08-18

Public profiles show durable capability, not live commercial availability. Where an organisation has privately confirmed capacity, scale or availability, UKIZ may use that to improve matching without publishing the confidential detail.