A purpose-built pilot-scale facility designed to support the scale-up and process development of agricultural, environmental, and industrial biotechnology — where laboratory innovation becomes manufacturable reality.
Facility Overview
F³ Tech operates a pilot-scale biomanufacturing facility in Easton, Maryland, purpose-built for agricultural and bioindustrial technologies. Unlike traditional life sciences infrastructure that serves pharmaceutical pipelines, F³ Tech is designed for the production systems that underpin the broader bioeconomy: agricultural biologicals, industrial fermentation platforms, bio-based materials, and environmental biotechnology.
The facility provides companies with access to controlled manufacturing environments, technical expertise, and scale-up infrastructure — at the stage where it matters most. Technologies that have been validated at lab or benchtop scale require a fundamentally different kind of support to move toward commercial production. F³ Tech provides that infrastructure.
Pilot-Scale Bioreactors
Certified Cleanrooms
Portfolio Companies
Revenue Generated
“This is where technologies are prepared for commercial deployment — not just tested.”
Capabilities
10L pilot-scale bioreactor systems designed for aerobic and anaerobic fermentation processes across a range of biological feedstocks and production targets.
Controlled manufacturing environments that meet industry-standard cleanliness and containment requirements for biological production processes.
Fully equipped in-house analytical laboratory for process monitoring, quality assessment, and data collection across scale-up campaigns.
Media preparation, seed train development, and inoculation systems to support consistent and reproducible fermentation performance.
Separation, purification, and recovery operations designed to prepare biological products for further development or commercial readiness evaluation.
Dedicated laboratory space for bench-scale process optimization and experimental work that informs pilot-scale manufacturing decisions.
Fermentation & Bioprocessing
Fermentation is the core production platform for many agricultural biologicals, industrial enzymes, and bio-based chemicals. F³ Tech’s fermentation infrastructure supports both microbial and fungal systems, enabling companies to develop and optimize production processes at meaningful scale before committing capital to commercial-scale buildout.
Process parameters established at F³ Tech’s pilot scale provide the data foundation needed for commercial scale-up decisions, regulatory submissions, and technology licensing discussions.
Process Development & Scale-Up
Scale-up is not simply a matter of increasing volume. It requires systematic process development — understanding how a biological system behaves under new conditions, identifying critical process parameters, and establishing the operating ranges that will sustain consistent product quality at commercial scale.
F³ Tech provides structured process development support that helps companies generate the technical data required to advance their technology toward commercial deployment. This includes process characterization, design of experiments, and scale-up validation.
Infrastructure & Technical Resources
ISO-certified cleanrooms and biosafety-compliant production spaces for biological manufacturing operations.
Pilot-scale bioreactors, centrifuges, filtration systems, and downstream recovery equipment.
In-house analytical tools for process monitoring, product characterization, and quality data generation.
Industry technical assistance from professionals with direct experience in bioindustrial and agricultural biotech production.
