News and Updates

We're unofficially announcing the start of a big project. We’re working with a well known cosmetics brand to explore our innovative fats and oils in their product formulations.

This is a major step forward on our journey to scaling and commercialisation - more news to follow soon!

Whilst wind and solar were the real alternatives when CAT first started in the 1970’s in Wales, we’re now exploring future-proofing technologies that previous generations could only dream of.

We had the pleasure of presenting our work on microbial oils as replacements for tropical oils, such as our drop-in substitute to cocoa butter.

As the world's second largest confectionary company and owner of many well known brands, such as McVitie’s, it’s a real honour to be selected to work with Pladis on their first accelerator.

They are especially excited by the nutritional profile of our Melior oil and the potential of our cocoa butter alternative.

As one of the first tenants in the newly dedicated Enterprise Centre at Oxford Brookes University, it was great to be invited to present on our company and close collaboration with the Centre and wider university ecosystem over the past 3 years.

We’ve come a very long way in a short time and are very grateful to the community here for their unwavering support.

Following great success with our scale-up process runs at AberInnovation, we are pleased to announce we have been awarded follow-on funding to continue our close working relationship with their fantastic team. Watch this space for results as we continue to innovate and scale our sustainable, microbial fats and oils.

60 seconds is not long to tell your entire company story, but it was a raving success at the Tech Nation Climate Showcase as part of London Climate Week.

A highlight of the programme was Ben Williams, our CTO, visiting the House of Lords to map out challenges in scaling businesses and technologies that benefit the climate, and how the government can support key transitions.