Liberation Labs has formally modified its identify to Liberation Bioindustries to raised replicate its function as a worldwide contract biomanufacturer working at industrial scale. The corporate is getting ready to carry its first purpose-built precision fermentation facility on-line in Richmond, Indiana, in early 2026. A second web site in Saudi Arabia is at the moment within the feasibility evaluation section.
“The ‘Labs’ a part of Liberation Labs felt unnecessarily limiting”
Mark Warner, founder and CEO, defined the rationale behind the identify change: “As we transfer from idea to completion, the ‘Labs’ a part of Liberation Labs felt unnecessarily limiting, if not outright complicated. In spite of everything, the world is filled with superb biotechnologies which might be at lab scale – we’re constructing the following era of commercial biomanufacturing facilities to carry these merchandise to market.”
Business-scale biomanufacturing capability
Liberation Bioindustries is establishing a industrial facility with a fermentation capacity of 600,000 liters and a devoted downstream processing line. The plant will manufacture quite a lot of bio-based supplies, together with constructing block components for meals, prescription drugs, chemical substances, and different industrial functions. The size and value construction of the plant is designed to fulfill demand from each established shopper packaged items corporations and rising industrial producers.
Concentrating on various trade calls for
The corporate describes its operations as combining trendy biotechnology with specialised manufacturing design to supply dependable, cost-effective biomanufacturing companies on a worldwide scale. The Richmond facility would be the firm’s flagship web site when it turns into operational subsequent yr.
In current developments, Liberation Bioindustries secured an agreement to supply commercial-scale volumes of Vivitein™ BLG, a dairy protein for Dutch startup Vivici. The corporate additionally entered a strategic partnership with Topian, a meals firm working beneath Saudi Arabia’s NEOM undertaking, to design and develop a sophisticated precision fermentation facility. Planning for the Saudi Arabia web site is predicted to start within the latter half of 2025.
The corporate made the announcement on the Future Meals-Tech convention in Chicago, the place it additionally served as a sponsor and participant.
