BKW Instruments launched their new Gas Calibration facility in Manchester. The new facility expands on BKW’s existing suit of services which include liquid flowmeter, pressure, and temperature calibrations. The expansion of their calibration capabilities supplements their in-house manufacturing facility in which they design and engineering process instrumentation assemblies for Pressure, Temperature, Flow, Level and Valve applications.

Dundee-based life sciences firm, Cellexus, have partnered with Castleford-based Verder Liquids to provide pumps to be used for the acid / base pump included as standard with their CellMaker Plus and Low Flow bioreactor systems.

Dundee-based biotechnology firm Cellexus are gearing up to approach new markets with the appointment of Fiona Bellot as Sales Director.

TWO independent Scottish companies have come together to speed up the development of medicines, vaccines, and key ingredients for reducing antibiotic resistance.

With six-figure funding support from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC), Eco Clean is aiming to develop a more sustainable alternative to traditionally petrochemical-based surfactants, which can be produced at scale.

Cambridge-based agritech startup Better Origin will supply 10 insect farming containers to Morrisons’ free range egg farms to reduce the use of soya. The rollout is a big step in helping Morrisons achieve their Net Zero targets and becoming the first supermarket to launch carbon neutral eggs.

The second close of Oceanium’s Seed II fundraise raises further c. $1 million and is 35% oversubscribed for the round, with Green Angel Syndicate investing more than in the first round.

BioAccelerate, AberInnovation’s investment-readiness accelerator programme for early-stage businesses and startups, is back for a fourth time and seeking ambitious innovations to join its 2022 cohort.

Selected by the prestigious EIC Accelerator Pilot, ALTAR secures 10.3 million euros to accelerate its development.

Dyneval, the Roslin-based biotechnology start-up, has secured more than £1.8 million of funding from investors as it expands its team and gears up to launch its first product at the start of 2022.

UN Ambassador for the Convention on Migratory Species Sacha Dench touched down in Scotland as part of her round Britain climate challenge to raise awareness of the effects of climate change, and shine a light on the innovators working to solve the crisis.

In August, the National Horizons Centre, in partnership with CPI, announced the launch of a new RNA National Training Academy in Darlington to help protect the world against future pandemics and infectious diseases.

Quotient Sciences, the drug development and manufacturing accelerator, has announced a £6.3 million-pound investment in its recently acquired manufacturing facility in Alnwick, U.K.

Green Bioactives, the plant biotechnology start-up which opened for business at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, has secured two new international contracts, as it gears up to launch its first consumer product later this year.

Edinburgh based Firefinch Software is delighted to announce that its Head of Marketing Sophie Read was the winner of a special recognition award for outstanding contribution to STEM education in the North East STEM Awards held virtually on the 15th July.

Dundee-based life sciences company Cellexus is targeting new markets to fuel its growth after forming a partnership that will prove its technology is suitable for use in an untapped area of research and product development.

Dyneval is delighted to announce that it was awarded £100K as the IBioIC EDGE winner at this year’s Scottish EDGE17 awards final. Dyneval is an exciting new venture in the Scottish biotech sector, having already been announced as winner of the i4 Product Design awards in January this year and the Biocity Accelerator Glasgow most promising venture awards in 2020.

A total of 29 businesses from a range of sectors across Scotland have benefited to the tune of £1,175,000 million after being named as winners at the Scottish EDGE Awards Round 17, the UK’s biggest funding competition for potential high growth businesses.

With COP26 set to take place in Glasgow this November, more than perhaps any other year 2021 should be the time we look to, and celebrate, how Scotland is supporting the fight against climate change.

The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has awarded 15 new grants to fund PhD projects at biotechnology companies, marking a commitment of more than £11 million to future green skills since the centre’s inception in 2014.