CMAC Facilities & Expertise

We can apply our knowledge and expertise to support you from early product development to fully commercialised product manufacturing.

See how our world class facilities and expertise support partner collaboration and the development of medicines manufacturing.

Research & Consultancy Services

  • Primary Processing

    Primary Processing

    Rapid process development, research and consultation services for crystallisation (batch & continuous) targeting desired particle attributes.

  • Process & Product Analysis

    Process & Product Analysis

    Process monitoring technologies and off-line benchtop spectroscopy techniques.

  • Materials Characterisation

    Materials Characterisation

    Multiple labs containing a range of methods for material characterisation.

  • Secondary Processing

    Secondary Processing

    Secondary Processing

    Secondary processing formulation services and consultancy on a variety of solid oral dosage platforms e.g. blending, twin screw granulation, milling, hot melt extrusion, fluid bed and spray drying, and compaction.

  • X-ray Services & Imaging

    X-ray Services & Imaging

    World-class X-ray suite that can deliver a range of services from powder characterisation, fingerprinting, variable temperature measurements, variable humidity measurements to unit cell determination and full structural solutions.

  • GI Bio

    GI Bio

    GI Bio addresses a major challenge in understanding the gut's complex dynamic environment by offering a way to replicate it without the limitations of animal or human studies.

Collaborative Research

CMAC offers services in the following areas:

  • Unique expertise in continuous crystallisation, process development, formulation and product analysis

  • Continuous processing skids for process development, analysis and materials characterisation capabilities, comprehensive suite of PAT tools

  • Services delivered within a state of the art manufacturing research facility

The laboratory footprint is over 900 m2, designed to deliver a fully adaptable space for multi-phase batch and continuous primary processing. There is a dedicated, specialised support team within CMAC to offer services and assistance to research activity and industrial projects. Access to to world-leading academic and industrial partners across a range of different fields can be facilitated. We also have analytical laboratories for advanced understanding of particulate formation and processing and a secondary processing suite.


We’ve carried out projects across CMAC members and beyond:

Client Stories

 Awards

Award certificate for the 2019 CPhI Pharma Awards, recognizing excellence in the pharmaceutical industry for contract services and outsourcing, with a black background and gold liquid splash design.

CPhI Pharma Awards 2019

In 2019, CMAC was delighted to be a finalist for the second conseutive year at CPhI's Excellence in Pharma Awards, in the Contract Services and Outsourcing category.  CPhI presented CMAC with a high commendation for this category for CMAC's National Facility at the recent awards ceremony.

Interior view of an office space with multiple desks and workstations, with a stairway visible on the left. The image is likely taken at the Facility for the Year Awards event, indicated by the ISPE and FOYA logos.

ISPE FOYA Award

In 2016, TIC received an honourable mention in the FOYA awards, which was the first time an academic institution had received such an accolade, reinforcing the class of facility offered by CMAC.


The FOYA award is a fantastic achievement for CMAC and our partners, in particular asit recognises the unique world class facilities and high quality collaborative environment that has now been established in TIC to support our research and training activities. CMAC look forward to continuing to extend our collaborative approach and welcome new partners to come and work alongside us within the new CMAC National Facility
— Professor Alastair Florence, CMAC Future Manufacturing Research Hub Director

 Our Experts

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To find out more detailed information or if you have any specific enquiries, please feel free to contact the CMAC National Facility Team directly.