Grant moves to new premises

GRANT INSTRUMENTS has moved to a new high impact manufacturing facility in Royston, Hertfordshire, to enable its next stage of growth. The site is a much more environmentally sustainable building and will lead to a much lower carbon footprint which is a key focus for the business.

“The new site offers us so much opportunity to grow and support our customers’ future growth and ambitions. It will enable us to innovate and manufacture at a much faster rate and in a more sustainable way, which aligns very much to our ethos and that of the scientific community we serve,” commented CEO, Mark Davison.

Grant Instruments is a longstanding component of the Cambridge tech ecosystem, and is a sustainability first organisation, from its product design and development through to driving fundamental workplace changes including a 4-day working week. The new facility is called ‘Evolution House’ reflecting the changes that are expected to continue.

“Over the past year we have made huge changes at Grant Instruments. The new site is the most visible of these but the move to four-day working has been arguably as revolutionary. The positive impact on staff morale and workplace practice has exceeded our expectations. The changes don’t stop here and we will continue our evolution and growth,” said Mark.

Additional to the new facility, the company is also launching its new state of the art cryopreservation system known as CRFT. The technology is produced at the new site and offers a more sustainable and safer approach to the freezing and thawing of highly sensitive biological samples for scientific research.

“Our new CRFT system is an exciting product for us to launch. The new version was driven by feedback from our customers. They wanted a system that allows precision, accuracy and flexibility in cryopreservation. We are incredibly happy to be able to launch this multi-format device to the scientific community and we look forward to hearing about the excellent research outcomes this enables in the future,” said Mark.