CPI acts as a catalyst bringing together academia, businesses, government and investors to translate bright ideas and research into the marketplace.

We do this by giving our customers access to the right experts, equipment, networks, funding and more – connecting the dots for effective innovation.

We are a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult.

Established in 2004, our teams tirelessly apply their many years of experience to ensure that every great invention gets the best opportunity to become a successfully marketed product or process.

We work with our partners across diverse markets in the UK and around the world, driving their innovations forward and helping them to reduce the risk and cost associated with product development.

Sterling has a strong pharmaceutical and engineering heritage dating back to the founding of the Sterling Drug API facility in Dudley, North East England, in 1969.

Since then, our UK site has had many names and focuses but in 2016, we came full circle and formed Sterling Pharma Solutions, an independent, invigorated CDMO with a strong track record.

Together our facilities in the UK and the US offer first-class API services for the full product lifecycle from pre-clinical to commercial manufacture.
This, combined with our technical agility and global reach, means you can trust our team with your complex API projects.

Everything we do has the Sterling stamp of quality. We are proud of our British heritage, strong compliance credentials and technical capabilities but it’s our people and the genuine and passionate way they do business that makes us different. We deliver value to our customers every day based on a foundation of strong compliance and over 50 years’ experience and demonstrated performance in serving the global pharmaceutical industry.