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Top 25 Industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom

Find 128 industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom, with 1,186 business contacts and 457 email addresses, published in September 2026. London is the single most-represented city among the companies on this list, providing a location reference for buyers and sellers researching the category.

Industrial biotechnology companies use microorganisms, cells, enzymes, or other biological processes to produce chemicals, materials, fuels, ingredients, and other industrial products. This list covers companies that develop, manufacture, or supply industrial products or production processes based on biotechnology. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 6, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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128Companies
1,186Contacts tracked
457Verified emails
99Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 128 industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to industrial biotechnology companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceCardiff, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20085 contacts →

“Biocatalysts is a biotechnology company producing speciality enzymes at commercial scales for a variety of industries.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Indirect evidenceEly, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5076 contacts →

“In September 2015, GFA became Envigo.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Indirect evidenceBirkenhead, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20058 contacts →

“Holiferm develops processes for and manufactures innovative, green and sustainable biosurfactants.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5056 contacts →

“Based in London, Hoxton Farms builds modular clusters of bioreactors to grow high-margin products from stem cells for food and pharma.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Indirect evidenceCardiff, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20051 contacts →

“We are Genesis Biosciences - a global biosciences company, based in both Atlanta, US, and Cardiff, UK.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5046 contacts →

“Xampla is creator of natural materials for commercial applications.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Indirect evidenceRedcar, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20042 contacts →

“Ensus UK Ltd is a sustainable biorefinery based in Wilton, Redcar.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5042 contacts →

“Whitefox Technologies: Pioneering towards a net zero future through purpose-driven biofuel engineering innovation.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Strong evidenceGlasgow, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5034 contacts →

“The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) was established in 2014 to stimulate growth of the Industrial Biotechnology (IB) in Scotland.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5028 contacts →

“Isomerase helps partners innovate and harness the microbial power of a wide range of bacteria and fungi to discover and produce native or novel natural products, peptides, and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5019 contacts →

“We are a bioprocessing partner for the sustainable bio-economy.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5018 contacts →

“We are on a mission to make bio the new normal.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Indirect evidenceOxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5016 contacts →

“Around 27% of essential drugs on the FDA list are categorised as 'at risk' due to uncertain supply chains.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Strong evidenceOxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5015 contacts →

“HydRegen’s industrial biotechnology platforms deliver sustainable, safe and cost-efficient chemical processes.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1013 contacts →

“twig is a full-stack AI bioengineering company building the technology layers to design, engineer, and scale microbial production of high-performance, sustainable molecules for…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1013 contacts →

“Zentraxa’s proprietary technological platform, Zentide, combined with our extensive technical know-how allows us to push the boundaries of what can be achieved with synthetic…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Partial evidenceGlasgow, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1011 contacts →

“At Xias Bio we utilise cutting-edge biotechnology and fermentation to supplant all animal-derived proteins.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Partial evidenceStewartby, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5011 contacts →

“Our world-class expertise in algal biology and biotechnology is driving a revolution in the application of algae within the food and beverages market as a sustainable, free-from…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1011 contacts →

“Cellcraft is a Cambridge-based, B2B, AI-native start-up building the AI & Automation systems to unlock and power Bio-Manufacturing, which includes biopharma (including vaccines)…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1011 contacts →

“AI-powered enzyme discovery and design enables Scindo to create the next generation of biocatalysts for the future of sustainable manufacturing, transforming industrial chemistry…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1011 contacts →

“Let's bloom the future with algae!”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1010 contacts →

“At Bright Biotech, we are revolutionising protein production through proprietary plant chloroplast technology.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSouth Kensington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1010 contacts →

“Bioataraxis is a UK-based deep-tech company and Imperial College London spin-out developing breakthrough bio-based surfactant technologies for the home care, personal care, and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1010 contacts →

“HERlab is a synthetic biology company developing advanced microbial platforms to unlock new bioproduction possibilities.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-509 contacts →

“Kyomei is a biotechnology company transforming wasted crop leaves into nature's bio-factories, creating and extracting healthy ingredients for 'clean label', better-for-you foods.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
38.5%Verified-email coverage
8.3%Mobile-number coverage
9.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
24.2%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
79
11-50
32
51-200
13
201-500
1
501-1,000
2

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How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among industrial biotechnology companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “industrial biotechnology companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names industrial biotechnology companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among industrial biotechnology companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 457 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Industrial biotechnology companies by metro

  • Industrial biotechnology companies in London31

Frequently asked

What are industrial biotechnology companies?

Industrial biotechnology companies use biological systems, such as microorganisms, cells, or enzymes, to produce industrial chemicals, materials, fuels, ingredients, and related products.

How many industrial biotechnology companies are based in the United Kingdom?

The list includes 128 industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom, with 1,186 business contacts and 457 email addresses.

Where are industrial biotechnology companies located?

London is the single most-represented city among the companies on this list. The list also includes companies across United Kingdom.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.