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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.
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The 25 largest industrial biotechnology companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
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| 1 | Strong evidence | 85 contacts → | |||
“Biocatalysts is a biotechnology company producing speciality enzymes at commercial scales for a variety of industries.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 76 contacts → | |||
“In September 2015, GFA became Envigo.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 58 contacts → | |||
“Holiferm develops processes for and manufactures innovative, green and sustainable biosurfactants.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 56 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Indirect evidence | 51 contacts → | |||
“We are Genesis Biosciences - a global biosciences company, based in both Atlanta, US, and Cardiff, UK.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Indirect evidence | 46 contacts → | |||
“Xampla is creator of natural materials for commercial applications.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 42 contacts → | |||
“Ensus UK Ltd is a sustainable biorefinery based in Wilton, Redcar.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 42 contacts → | |||
“Whitefox Technologies: Pioneering towards a net zero future through purpose-driven biofuel engineering innovation.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Strong evidence | 34 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 28 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 19 contacts → | |||
“We are a bioprocessing partner for the sustainable bio-economy.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Indirect evidence | 18 contacts → | |||
“We are on a mission to make bio the new normal.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 16 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Strong evidence | 15 contacts → | |||
“HydRegen’s industrial biotechnology platforms deliver sustainable, safe and cost-efficient chemical processes.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 13 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 13 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“At Xias Bio we utilise cutting-edge biotechnology and fermentation to supplant all animal-derived proteins.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Partial evidence | 11 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 11 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Partial evidence | 11 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“Let's bloom the future with algae!” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 10 contacts → | |||
“At Bright Biotech, we are revolutionising protein production through proprietary plant chloroplast technology.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 10 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 10 contacts → | |||
“HERlab is a synthetic biology company developing advanced microbial platforms to unlock new bioproduction possibilities.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Partial evidence | 9 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: industrial biotechnology companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names industrial biotechnology companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industrial biotechnology companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industrial biotechnology companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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- 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.
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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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