From the first colonyto industrial scale.

Fermeva develops, scales and manufactures fermentation-based bioproducts, and designs the bioreactors that run them. One partner for the whole cycle.

Five bioreactor vessels drawn to scale, from 500 millilitres to 1,000 litres 500 mL 1 L 10 L 100 L 1,000 L

Bench, pilot and production vessels, 500 mL to 1,000 L.

One partner across the whole production cycle.

Most fermentation projects stall in the handovers: between the lab that found the strain, the team that scaled it and the plant that has to run it. Fermeva keeps all three under one roof.

We develop bioprocesses at laboratory and pilot scale, take them to industrial volumes and manufacture on demand. When your process needs a vessel that doesn't exist yet, we design it.

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Everything between the first colony and the final batch.

Four stages, one team. Each stage hands off to the next without a change of partner. Keep scrolling to move through them.

A streaked agar plate, and the isolated cells seen under magnification
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Applied microbiology

Finding, identifying and improving the organism your process depends on.

  • Isolation and screening from environmental samples
  • Taxonomic identification by 16S rRNA and ITS sequencing
  • Strain improvement and adaptation to a nutritional source
  • Strain construction for overproduction of proteins, enzymes and specialty lipids
A bench bioreactor with probes, and the growth curve it produces time biomass
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Upstream

Designing the culture medium and the process conditions, then proving they scale.

  • Medium development and optimisation by design of experiments
  • Optimisation of temperature, pH, agitation and gas flow
  • Scale-up across bioreactor sizes to confirm robustness and reproducibility
Tangential flow filtration concentrating the product, then a filled vial
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Downstream

Recovering and purifying the product to the specification it has to meet.

  • Centrifugation and biomass separation
  • Cell disruption and extract recovery
  • Tangential flow filtration
  • Freeze-drying and spray-drying
  • Protein purification
A row of production reactors filling drums for shipment
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Production

Manufacturing on demand, from test material to commercial volumes.

  • Batches sized from R&D samples to commercial supply
  • Quality control of raw materials, process and released product
  • Planning that adapts as your requirements change
Fermentation products on a laboratory bench: a vial of dried powder, a flask of culture broth, a seedling in soil and probiotic capsules

Where fermentation makes the product.

We work with bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi to produce proteins, enzymes, live cultures and other high-value compounds for five industries.

  • Recombinant proteins Enzymes and functional proteins expressed in engineered strains.
  • Biofertilisers Microbial inoculants and biostimulants for agriculture.
  • Probiotics Live cultures for food, feed and health formulations.
  • Ingredients Fermentation-derived ingredients for food and feed.
  • By-product valorisation Turning industrial side streams into value through bioconversion.

Bioreactors built around your process.

Because we run fermentations ourselves, we design vessels the way an operator needs them: sized to your organism, your medium and your target volume, from a single pilot reactor to a complete fermentation plant.

Discuss a bioreactor
  • Stirred-tank Baffled, mechanically agitated vessels for the widest range of cultures.
  • Airlift Gas-driven mixing for shear-sensitive organisms.
  • Microbial Configured for bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi.
  • Pilot-scale For process proof between the bench and the plant.
  • Industrial Production vessels and the plant around them.
Standard working volumes
500 mL
1 L
10 L
100 L
1,000 L

Your bioproduct, made to order.

Production services for microorganisms and other bioproducts, from the first test material to commercial manufacturing.

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Volumes that follow your stage

Small batches for research and validation, full-scale runs for commercial supply, and every step in between, without moving to a new manufacturer.

Quality at every stage

Raw materials are controlled on arrival, the process is monitored while it runs, and the released product is verified against your specification.

Specialist depth, start-up pace

Senior fermentation and microbiology expertise, organised to change course quickly when your requirements do.

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The people behind the process.

Fermentation scientists, process engineers and production staff who stay with your project from the bench to the batch.

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