FabricNano is a company focused on developing a generalizable drop-in biocatalyst for cell-free biomanufacturing, aiming to provide a cleaner and more sustainable way of manufacturing chemicals and materials. They are trailblazing a new approach to sustainable chemistry by leveraging enzyme machinery and immobilization technology.

FabricNano

FabricNano is a biotechnology company based in London. Our mission is to transform industrial chemical processes using cell-free biomanufacturing. Empowering users with the world’s most advanced, flexible and easily-scalable biocatalyst platform.

We develop and sell biocatalysts for high volume industrial applications. Data-driven in our approach to enzyme and  Immobilization Engineering™, we only use biocatalyst materials that can already be manufactured by the tonne.

Our clients range from startups to international chemical clients like Sumitomo Chemical Company, all of which are looking for highly stable and performant biocatalysts to enable profitable production of sustainable and bio-based chemicals. 

The FabricNano offer starts with novel  Immobilization Engineering™ for enzyme stabilization, followed by budget-conscious protein engineering and process engineering to reach the client’s targets for commercialization of the new biochemical production process.

Atomico

Hoxton Ventures

BoxOne Ventures

Alexander Moscho

Arvind Gupta

Emma Watson

Ian Hogarth

Michael Stoppelman

Milad Alucozai

Tania Boler

Vijay Pandurangan

Our brand and design agency Ascend Studio — led by Paul Croxton — recently won an International Design Awards, IDA for their work supporting our rebrand. Congratulations, team! 

You can check out their work here: https://bit.ly/3UJaEhs

FabricNano’s CEO and founder Grant Aarons appeared on the Climate Heroes podcast to discuss the critical role cell-free biomanufacturing will play in decarbonising industrial chemical processes. 

Thanks to First Mile | Certified B Corp for having us on the show. 

https://bit.ly/3SUrV6h

Swapping fossil-derived chemicals for bio-based alternatives would reduce global carbon emissions dramatically. 

But, current industrial biotechnology is stuck in the dark ages using genetically engineered yeast in vats to produce artisanal products. Beer brewing technology has not produced the volumes of bio-based materials that the world is clamouring for. 

In this FabricNano blog, CEO and founder Grant Aarons explores a new industrial biotechnology that’s been dubbed “cell-free” and why this is a critical inflection point in the fight against climate change. Cell-free will be the challenger to petroleum’s dominance in things like plastics and fuels.

Fossil fuel derived inputs are critical to all tiers of our modern society—from the fuel guzzled by our cars to the surprisingly common petroleum food substances that enter our diets everyday. 

Bio-based alternatives exist, so why are we still waiting for bio-plastics and bio-fuels made from miracle yeast? 

In this FabricNano blog, CEO and founder Grant Aarons explores the history—and future—of industrial biotech and why we’ve just hit a critical inflection point in the biotechnology that’ll be used to build a sustainable future.

Late last year, George Simister from UKTN visited FabricNano’s London HQ for a lab tour. 

George wrote about our mission to enable the sustainable manufacture of products including—but not limited to—industrial chemicals, at scale.  

Read the full piece here!

https://bit.ly/3RFDKvf

In the midst of the climate emergency, a relatively unknown and underutilized technology could decarbonize industry and help save our way of life. 

It’s called “cell-free”, and it’s gaining attention at multinational corporations and within government policy projections. 

In this blog post, Grant Aarons delves into what it means, why it matters—and how companies like FabricNano are developing tools to amplify its potential. 

https://bit.ly/48lYxek

We’re excited to be featured as one of WIRED’s hottest London startups!

FabricNano is joined by a roll call of great climate and biotech industry peers, including Sylvera, Peppy, Infogrid, Fertifa, SOJO and Fuse Energy. 

The commodity chemical industry represents 10% of GHG emissions and is the world’s largest industrial user of petroleum oil and gas. FabricNano is pioneering industrial technology for a sustainable future, powered by enzymes, to tackle these emissions. 

With the climate crisis escalating and strict targets in place to ensure that industries and economies decarbonise, our work is more critical than ever. 

Thanks to João Medeiros for including us!

https://bit.ly/3H58Mb0

Last week, Freya Pratty from Sifted dropped in at FabricNano’s HQ for a lab tour! 

We spoke about the role chemicals play in the worsening climate crisis — a sector expected to account for over a third of the growth in demand for oil between now and 2030. 

It was a great opportunity to showcase FabricNano’s work harnessing enzyme engineering to produce alternative chemicals not reliant on fossil fuels. 

You can download the newsletter and write-up here!

https://bit.ly/45NO0X7

Here’s my latest for TechCrunch! 

The UK has the ability, technology, capital and influence to lead from the front on the climate crisis, and Grant Aarons and I are building up FabricNano here as a result. 

But the Government wants to squander this advantage, and all for a couple of points at the polls. (see my comment below for thoughts on their odds in someone else’s words)

I’ve written about why we need consistency — simple, basic consistency — to make businesses like ours thrive. Building up deeptech-enabled companies here in the UK, employing high-skilled workers here in the UK, paying taxes in the UK. Just as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt  said he wanted in his “long term vision” for the economic future of the UK that he laid out… a mere nine months ago. 

The full piece can be found here:

We’re #hiring a new Data Analytics Engineer here at FabricNano HQ! Come join our weird, wonderful, brainy, brilliant team.

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