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Grow as you go
Our modular bioreactor systems are truly scalable, minimising costs and facility footprint, and giving you operational flexibility to ramp up production as demand grows, utilising our range of sizes to scale up, and adding more bioreactors to scale out.
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A seamless flow path
We carefully control media flow through the bioreactor to create a gentle, low-shear environment. This minimises stress on the cells and promotes efficient cell growth.
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A new breed of bioreactor
Our bioreactors are compact, adaptable, and efficient. They ensure high productivity of quality product with reduced CapEx and OpEx.
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Sustaining growth with fibre bundles
Each bioreactor is packed with these hollow fibres, providing a substantial surface area, ideal for hosting both adherent and suspension cells, providing a low-shear environment, and efficiently supplying nutrients to all cells.
Food production is costing us the earth
Food insecurity is at an all-time high, and current production is drastically depleting the planet’s resources.
With the global population growing, ensuring sustainable food supply is a critical challenge.
The global food system needs a rethink.
Sustainably feeding 10bn people by 2050…
To deliver global nutrition without using more land and increasing emissions we need a smarter, more sustainable toolbox of solutions.
Cultivated food is a vital one.
The technology and market appetite are there, but scalability, efficiency, and cost still stand in the way of widespread adoption.
Technology to replicate nature at scale
Our hollow fibre membrane technology, which mimics a vascular system, is making cultivated food production industrially scalable.
By supporting food industry innovation, our system helps meet global food demand sustainably and cost-effectively.
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Starting with the cells
Our process begins with seeding cells into our hollow fibre bioreactors. We are actively testing and validating the system with a wide range of cell types from various species, demonstrating its potential to be fully agnostic.
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Naturalistic nutrient flow
As we feed in culture media, the hollow fibres’ porous membranes allow for efficient, mass transfer of nutrients to the cells — just the same as a vascular system.
Sustainability meets scalability:
the future of cultivated food production
Discover hollow fibre bioreactor technology
Our Mission
Our next-generation bioreactors produce cultivated food efficiently and reliably. By replicating nature at scale, this breakthrough technology reduces reliance on resource-intensive traditional food production, paving the way for a sustainable and resilient future food system.
Technology
Inspired by a vascular system, our hollow fibre bioreactor technology is intricate, efficient, and resilient. Here’s how we use nature’s ingenuity to solve long-standing human challenges.
The Process
Cell Growth
Media Supply
Fibre Support
Bioreactor
Grow as you go
Scalability
Fig 1. Hollow Fibre Technology
Learn how we use nature’s solutions to solve long-standing human challenges.
Transforming the cultivated food landscape
Explore Partners
Hollow fibre bioreactors help our partners expand production, increase efficiency, and reduce environmental impact.
Hilton Food Group is a leading food packaging and supply chain company specialising in meat, seafood, and plant-based products for major retailers worldwide.
Hilton Food Group became a key investor in 2022, recognising our ambition and the opportunities ahead.
Another food industry leader, G. Mondini is a manufacturer of innovative food packaging systems, specialising in tray sealing and sustainable packaging solutions. The company provides high-tech, customisable packaging equipment for food and other industries.
AgFunder is a venture capital firm specialising in Agrifood Tech investments, funding startups that innovate in agriculture, food, and sustainability.
Merck is a global science and technology company specialising in healthcare, life sciences, and electronics. It develops pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, and high-tech materials to drive innovation. We’ve worked closely with Merck since 2018 to investigate a number of their materials within our systems.
Naturbeads is a sustainability-focused company developing biodegradable cellulose microbeads as an eco-friendly alternative to plastic. Together we’ve explored the use of microcarriers and further developed our bioprocess capabilities.
Kayser Space is a company specialising in space engineering, providing advanced solutions for microgravity research and space exploration. It develops hardware for life sciences experiments on platforms like the International Space Station (ISS). We collaborated on scaling down a version of our hollow fibre bioreactor system, utilising space-qualified components to optimise its use in space experimentation.
Key milestones and breakthroughs since our inception
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