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Almac Sciences Limited

Partnering to Advance Human Health - Almac

Almac Group - Partnering to Advance Human Health. Providing a range of contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services globally.

CRN
NI041550
Founded
2001
Age
24

Overview

Legal name
ALMAC SCIENCES LIMITED
Region
Northern Ireland
Registered address
ALMAC HOUSE
20 SEAGOE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
CRAIGAVON
BT63 5QD
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
30 Jun
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

02 May
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

18 Apr
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

30 Sep
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

20 Sep
2001

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

7 awards
First funded
2012
Funded years
2012, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
Age at first award
11 years

Projects

2024 Feasibility Studies

AERODRY: Efficient UK scale-up production of Thermulon superinsulating aerogels for EV and construction applications – improved drying technology.

1 Oct 2024 to 31 Mar 2025

Awarded
£21,880
Total cost £43,758

Thermulon is a deep-tech start-up based in the North East of England and London working on industry-changing insulation materials. Created in part in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy of 2017, Thermulon is developing ways to make both buildings and Electric Vehicles (EVs) safer through the scalable and efficient manufacturing of aerogels. The UK gove...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Elevated temperature mediated OLigo synthesis using LIgase and resin tEchnology - OLLIE

1 Dec 2023 to 31 Jan 2026

Awarded
£186,886
Total cost £373,773

The manufacture of medicines was brought to the fore during the recent pandemic. The urgency of being able to produce the quantities and quality of medicine in a short period of time focussed minds across academia and industry. A further focus for the public in recent years has been the protection of our environment and introduction of practises reducing ...

2020 Small Business Research Initiative Lead participant

Manufacturing Oxidative Products (MOP)

1 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2020

Awarded
£59,462
Total cost £59,462

Almac Sciences is the chemistry business of the Almac Group, a Global Pharmaceutical Service Organisation headquartered in Northern Ireland, UK. Almac Sciences is a contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and other finished healthcare products. Almac Sciences specialist expertise extend...

2019 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Queen's University Belfast and Almac Sciences Limited

1 Mar 2019 to 31 Oct 2022

Awarded
Unknown

To embed a highly innovative combination of chemo- and enzymatic catalysis under tandem flow conditions for the preparation of chiral amines from commercially available raw materials.

2014 BIS-Funded Programmes

Biotechnology for Anti-Weeds (BAW)

1 Sep 2014 to 30 Nov 2018

Awarded
£218,925
Total cost £437,850

The project aims to develop a technology for an organic natural based pesticide for use in agriculture and horticulture plus the homes and gardens market. The basis of this research is replacing steps in a chemical synthesis that uses a toxic metal catalyst by employing biological processes using enzymes, and to scale this up to a route workable for indus...

2013 Collaborative R&D

High Value Chemicals by Biotechnological Modifications of Polysaccharide from Waste

1 Jul 2013 to 30 Jun 2015

Awarded
£120,000
Total cost £240,000

The use of renewable products to produce valuable and biologically sustainable materials and to minimise waste is a major challenge for current global research and development. This project aims to use a biomass feedstock, from waste processing, employing enzyme catalysts in an aqueous environment at ambient temperatures, to produce a wide range of sustai...

2012 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Queen's University Belfast And Almac Sciences Limited

1 Nov 2012 to 30 Nov 2015

Awarded
Unknown

To develop, improve and embed new approaches for the discovery of novel biocatalysts using molecular biology techniques.

Product types

BIS-Funded Programmes Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Knowledge Transfer Partnership Small Business Research Initiative