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LanoTech featured in Developing alternative animal feed ingredients textbook

LanoTech Featured in New Animal Feed Textbook

June 2026 Most people associate sheep's wool with jumpers. We've ended up in a textbook on animal feed. Looking forward to the publication of Developing Alternative Animal Feed Ingredients, which includes a chapter on LanoTech Ltd's lanolin and how one of Britain's most overlooked natural resources could find new value in animal nutrition. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, and edited by Nico van Belzen.

National Sheep Association Talk

June 2026 Talking about sheep grease to a room full of sheep experts. A pleasure to present LanoTech Ltd's work at the National Sheep Association Policy & Technical Meeting at AberInnovation, alongside Eurion Thomas talking about his work at Techion. Wool is too valuable to be worth less than the cost of shearing. Thank you to National Sheep Association for the invitation and the opportunity to discuss new ideas for creating demand for British wool.

Innovate UK Case Study

Innovate UK case study about LanoTech who are turning Welsh wool into sustainable feed ingredients.

Solutions Catalyst Follow On Fund

Solutions Catalyst Follow On Fund investigating lanolin fractions at AberInnovation.

Advances Wales article Turning wool into a sustainable feed revolution

LanoTech in Advances Wales

LanoTech was featured in Advances Wales, in The Journal for Science, Engineering and Technology, in article turning wool into a sustainable feed revolution

LANO-SHRIMP Trials at Swansea University

April 2026 LANO-SHRIMP! LanoTech Ltd’s first live shrimp trials are making a splash at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe. The shrimp are growing fast, ably supported by Charlotte Davies and Rosie Watts at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research CSAR. The trial is funded through the SPARK AgriFood programme from Innovate UK. We recently met the other projects on the programme. From shrimp to dairy to oysters, everyone is tackling d

BBSRC "Sparking Innovation" Conference

April 2026 LanoTech Ltd is a technical company founded with only GCSE intermediate level Biology lab experience… It says everything about the quality of support available in the UK that LanoTech Ltd has moved from lab to live animal trials in less than 2 years, and is now readying for pilot scale. Clodagh Weingart joined the panel “Bioscience research from the lab to the market” at the BBSRC “Sparking Innovation” conference in April to encourage others with an idea but witho

A chick part of poultry feed trials at SRUC

LanoTech at World's Poultry Science Association conference

April 2026 LanoTech was on stage at the World's Poultry Science Association conference, represented by Salvatore Galgano. Sal showcased exciting results from LanoTech Ltd’s world-first live lanolin-based feed trials. Chickens can and do eat lanolin! The trial compared chickens eating a new lanolin-based diet against a traditional soy-based diet. The chickens on the lanolin-based diet matched their competitors on well-being and performance. SRUC Edinburgh facilitated the tr

Made with Wool event

March 2026 Hosting Made with Wool in Bala with Menter Môn Ltd last month was a reminder that wool connects more industries than many people realise. From farming and research to textiles, manufacturing and design, wool is the fibre that helps hold those worlds together, with opportunities running right through the supply chain. The event also highlighted emerging opportunities for by-products and new commercial uses beyond wool’s more familiar applications. At LanoTech, we we

Full page spread in National Sheep Association

February 2026 Full page spread in NSA's Sheep Farmer magazine. The royal "We" at LanoTech Ltd does a lot of heavy lifting. It carries all those providing invaluable help without whom we'd still be in the starting blocks. Kenton Hart Christopher Wallis, PhD, FRSC, FRSB Rhian Hayward MBE Hilary Worgan Andrew Rowbottom Salvatore Galgano James Curtis Susan Marszalek among many others. And of course, not forgetting Chief Dog Offcier, Treacle 🐕

£2.95m Innovate UK Funding

January 2026 'Shear' excitement! LanoTech Ltd is one of nine innovative startups across Mid & North Wales to secure a combined £2.95 million funding from Innovate UK . This is game changing and supports work with Bangor University AberInnovation Aberystwyth University SRUC Hilary Worgan Andrew Rowbottom Kenton Hart IBERS Jos Houdijk Salvatore Galgano among others.

BBC Farming Today

November 2025 "We want 'the sound of science' so we'll record in the lab" said my @BBC interviewer... List to @LanoTech on BBC Farming Today last Tuesday 18th November to find out what innovative science sounds like. It is HUGE for a startup of LanoTech's seniority to be on our national airwaves. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002md2v

Lanolin feed trials

October 2025 and world first live lanolin-based feed trials are underway! Funded by Welsh Government and carried our at SRUC (Scotland's Rural University College), it's been a fascinating time seeing poulty eating a lanolin-based diet for the first time. Early indications are positive and extensive period of analysis will follow the trial.