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How AberInnovation Supports Key Sectors Through World-Leading Bio-Based Innovation

AberInnovation
December 23, 2025
At AberInnovation, we provide the place, the people, and the platform your company needs to innovate with confidence. Our mission is to help businesses translate research and technical knowledge into validated proof of concept, accelerate their product development, and move rapidly toward commercialisation. Whether you’re an early-stage start-up or a scaling company preparing for market entry, AberInnovation offers the infrastructure, expertise, and innovation ecosystem required to grow your intellectual property and strengthen your product or process.

Aligned With the UK and Welsh Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy

Our work maps directly to key missions within the UK Government’s modern industrial strategy. This alignment means that companies working with us are often well-placed for national and regional innovation funding, including support from Innovate UK and the Welsh Government’s Smart Flexible Innovation programmes.

By embedding your R&D activities within a nationally aligned innovation hub, you strengthen both the strategic positioning and the funding potential of your project.

Through our specialist facilities and expert technical teams plus access to Aberystwyth University and IBERS' world leading academic professionals, AberInnovation covers an exceptionally broad portfolio of bio-based solutions, including:

  • Biotechnology
  • Chemical processing and formulation
  • Life sciences and engineering biology
  • Digital and data-driven biology

This multi-disciplinary capability makes AberInnovation a trusted place to convene everything you need for successful innovation, from technical expertise and analytical services to prototyping, pilot-scale testing, and product validation.

Key Sectors We Serve

Food & Nutrition

AberInnovation supports businesses across the food sector, from novel food and ingredient development to food safety, nutrition, and health applications. Companies working in these areas benefit from our advanced laboratories, processing suites, and links to academic expertise.

Circular Economy

We play a central role in enabling the circular economy, helping businesses develop sustainable, low-waste, bio-based products and processes. This includes valorisation of by-products and waste reduction technologies.

Advanced Manufacturing & Life Sciences

Both food systems and the circular economy sit within the advanced manufacturing mission of the industrial strategy, while our work in nutrition and health also contributes directly to the life sciences mission. Companies operating in these areas can leverage our facilities to enhance product performance, validate new technologies, and build evidence for market entry.

A Trusted Innovation Ecosystem

If there’s one thing that can make a decisive difference to your product development journey, you may find it at AberInnovation. We work closely with companies to:

  • help design the right specifications from the outset and deliver on specifications
  • validate performance through controlled testing
  • build proof points that strengthen investor and customer confidence

Our innovation infrastructure is built to support every stage of the journey, from early ideation to pilot production and commercial readiness.

Work With Us and Accelerate Your Progress

If your business is developing a bio-based product, technology, or process, AberInnovation is the place to turn ambition into outcomes. Our alignment with UK Government industrial missions means your work may be ideally positioned for national and regional innovation support.

Contact us today to discover how our facilities, expertise, and networks can help take your innovation further, faster!