Japanese biotech Spiber has launched Spiber Biofoundry, a contract service offering strain engineering and fermentation manufacturing to other companies developing proteins. The service draws on the company's experience scaling its Brewed Protein materials, with fermenters ranging from one litre to more than 100,000 litres across sites in Japan and Thailand. Contract fermentation capacity at pilot and commercial scale is scarce, according to Spiber, so access to proven capaci