Biotechnology

ESI Technologies is a supplier of Process Equipment & Engineering Solutions for the Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Semi-Conductor, Food & Beverage Industries. Within the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, the company provides typical process equipment such as instrumentation, valves and filtration devices, as well as single-use equipment such as bioprocess containers and pumps. ESI have a site in Torfaen.

Copner Biotech is a biotechnology company who provide products and services in the 3D cell culture field. Copner's design and manufacturing process enables the production of cell culture scaffolds to better represent physiological conditions in the body, providing experimental advantages for research in fields studying cell microenvironments.

BioExtractions Wales provides a contract service of isolate and separate products such as peptides and large synthetic molecules from complex mixtures. These services are offered to the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, chemical, food industries.

Dynamic Extractions is a spin out company of Brunel University (now based in Tredegar) which was set up to commercialise Hydrodynamic Counter Current Chromatography (HdCCC) technology developed by the Brunel Institute of Bioengineering (BIB). The technology has potential application in high throughput screening for drug discovery and process development in large scale commercial use.

Jellagen is a biotechnology company based in Cardiff. The company specialises in the development of research grade collagen derived from jellyfish. Jellyfish collagen has multiple potential applications in science and medicine, including to generate orthopaedic scaffolds, wound dressings and cell scaffolds for cell culture and cell therapy.

Continuum Blue is a technology development company, which focuses on computer simulations for a range of industries, including within medical and biotechnology. The company's simulations have been used to develop orthopaedic implants and to model bioreactors.

ABClonal is a laboratory supplier based in Port Talbot. ABclonal supplies over 15,000 monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, molecular biology equipment, over 1,000 recombinant proteins, ELISA kits, laboratory supplies and services towards IVD raw material development and biological drug delivery.

ProColl is a synthetic biology company that manufactures bovine and animal-free collagen at scale. This collagen is used in industries such as medical devices, cell therapy and regenerative medicine, as well as in food production.

ARGiP is a manufacturer of basic products used for biosafety and veterinary applications. Their main products are Pepsin (a proteolytic enzyme which is produced using swine stomach) and Omentum Lipids (lipids isolated from porcine tissue known to exhibit therapeutic properties), as well as homogenising instruments.

AMPED PCR provides PCR products such as reagents for researchers in Life Sciences and Applied Markets.