Specialist Manufacturing
A vibrant specialist manufacturing community
Scotland has one of the few true specialist manufacturing clusters in the UK. Scotland’s biomanufacturing community employs around 4,000 people
Scotland’s specialist manufacturing companies
Established supply and support network
Three of the world’s top five cell culture media manufacturers are located within a three hour drive of Scotland’s central belt Invitrogen (Scotland), Sigma-Aldrich (Scotland) and Hyclone (Northumberland). This keeps the supply chain short and efficient.
The full spectrum of services and support required by biotechnology companies is well catered for within a relatively compact geographical area providing efficiencies and savings between supplier and manufacturer.
There’s also a strong Contract Services Organisation community. Out of the 26 biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical manufacturers in Scotland, 20 offer GMP contract manufacturing services.
Contract Research Organisations
World class research expertise
Heriot-WattUniversity and StrathclydeUniversity are involved in applied bioprocessing related research.
High Quality Infrastructure
Scotland has high quality premises particularly suitable for cGMP manufacturing
Infrastructure for specialist manufacturing
Scottish Biomanufacturing Forum
The Scottish Biomanufacturing Forum is a specialist manufacturing network, led by key industry representatives and supported by Scottish Enterprise. Scotland also provides focused, industry led, training initiatives to increase specific biomanufacturing skills.