Plymouth Science Park's planned sovereign fabrication facility — and the seed of Emrys's manufacturing competency.
Emrys Forge is planned as a fabrication and prototyping facility based at Plymouth Science Park, serving two purposes simultaneously: a commercial-revenue public-access space for engineers and makers across Plymouth, and the foundation of Emrys's own sovereign manufacturing capability for every product in the stack.
| Location | Plymouth Science Park, Plymouth, UK — adjacent to HMNB Devonport, Babcock International, Princess Yachts, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. |
| Capability | 3D printing (FDM, resin, SLS), laser cutting, CNC machining, electronics workbenches, and PCB prototyping. Planned SC-cleared R&D enclave for sensitive defence work. |
| Commercial model | Public-access membership, machine time, and training revenue. Slightly below-market pricing to drive adoption and build the local engineering community. |
| Strategic role | Emrys Forge is not just a revenue stream — it is the manufacturing competency seed for every platform and infrastructure product in the Emrys portfolio. All internal Emrys prototyping and small-run production goes through Emrys Forge first. |
| FabLabs affiliation | Emrys Forge may pursue voluntary affiliation with the Fab Labs Plymouth network and the wider global Fab Lab community — providing community, credibility, and shared resources. Emrys Forge operates under its own brand and is not a FabLab franchise. (Note: "FabLab" is a registered trademark of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.) |
| SC-cleared capability | A physically-separated SC-cleared R&D and fabrication enclave is planned, enabling defence-sensitive work that no other Plymouth fabrication facility currently supports. |
| Status | Year 1–2. Premises secured at Plymouth Science Park following seed investment close. Initial equipment and fit-out from seed capital. |
Every product Emrys builds — from X-Plex PCBs to SonaSphere hulls to PowerFi enclosures — ultimately needs to be manufactured in the UK, at cost, under security controls. Emrys Forge is where that capability begins. It starts as a commercial fabrication space. It becomes the sovereign UK manufacturing backbone of the Emrys technology stack.