About Us
E&O’s extensive product portfolio is manufactured across two fully automated, cGMP-compliant facilities in central Scotland, covering more than 100,000 sq ft of controlled production and warehousing space.
About Us
Our Facilities
E&O Laboratories Ltd's head office and small batch manufacturing facility is located in the heart of Central Scotland. This beautiful rural location based on a farm has 30,000 square feet dedicated to production, divided between bottled, plated media and dehydrated culture media.
A further 10,000 square feet of warehouse is used for all the raw material/consumable storage. A purpose built environmentally controlled milling and blending area plus extensive dedicated research and development/quality control laboratories are all sited adjacent to the main factory.
Our Facilities
E&O Laboratories Ltd's head office and small batch manufacturing facility is located in the heart of Central Scotland. This beautiful rural location based on a farm has 30,000 square feet dedicated to production, divided between bottled, plated media and dehydrated culture media.
Head Office
Burnhouse
E&O Laboratories Ltd's head office and small batch manufacturing facility is located in the heart of Central Scotland.
Manufacturing
Westfield
E&O Laboratories large volume manufacturing facility, warehouse / cold-storage and main logistics centre is located in a newly refurbished 30,000 square feet industrial unit in Cumbernauld.
Donor Animals
South Mains
South Mains Farm comprises a combination of high quality summer grazing and specialised winter housing allowing donor stock (Horses and Sheep) a stress free, purposeful life.
Southern Distribution Hub
Reading
Our new southern logistics hub is located at Cradock Road, Reading. This facility promises to offer exciting new distribution opportunities to customers based in London, Birmingham, South Wales and the south of England.
Head Office
Burnhouse
E&O Laboratories Ltd's head office and small batch manufacturing facility is located in the heart of Central Scotland.
Manufacturing
Westfield
E&O Laboratories large volume manufacturing facility, warehouse / cold-storage and main logistics centre is located in a newly refurbished 30,000 square feet industrial unit in Cumbernauld.
Donor Animals
South Mains
South Mains Farm comprises a combination of high quality summer grazing and specialised winter housing allowing donor stock (Horses and Sheep) a stress free, purposeful life.
Southern Distribution Hub
Reading
Our new southern logistics hub is located at Cradock Road, Reading. This facility promises to offer exciting new distribution opportunities to customers based in London, Birmingham, South Wales and the south of England.
Our People
E&O became an Employee Ownership Trust in 2024, with 62.5% of the company’s shares transferred from the founder to its employees. This structure gives everyone a direct stake in the company’s success and a voice in its future. Shared ownership strengthens accountability, long-term planning and investment in our people, aligning business growth and sustainable practices and community responsibility.
Our People
E&O became an Employee Ownership Trust in 2024, with 62.5% of the company’s shares transferred from the founder to its employees. This structure gives everyone a direct stake in the company’s success and a voice in its future.
Our Heritage
Having successfully gained credibility within the clinical sector for sterile animal blood products, E&O diversified its product range to include the manufacture of ready-to-use culture media. This was a major stepping-stone in the company’s growth and offered further opportunities for export into mainland Europe and the Middle East.
Over the next five years the company concentrated on increasing sales and developing quality systems in line with business needs. E&O were recognised as Investors in People, gained BS EN.ISO9002:1994 accreditation and increased the staffing level to over 50 employees.
Equine and Ovine Blood Products was a family partnership founded in 1978 with a contract to supply sterile Horse and Sheep blood to Gibco BRL in Paisley. Over the next eleven years the business grew as Gibco secured a high percentage of market share in the UK clinical sector and introduced the first commercially manufactured ready-to-use culture media.
In 1989 an American directive determined the sale of the clinical microbiology division of Gibco’s UK operation, which meant that E&O’s donor blood harvesting business had no route to market and required investment and microbiology expertise to go it alone. After six months exposure to political and corporate turmoil, a financial crisis split the family partnership and E&O Laboratories Ltd was launched as an entrepreneurial gamble for the owner Virginia Lucey.
Our Community
We work closely with local schools, colleges and universities through mentoring and work-placement programmes that encourage careers in science and manufacturing.
Our Community
We work closely with local schools, colleges and universities through mentoring and work-placement programmes that encourage careers in science and manufacturing. Our teams also support local charities, community projects and sports clubs throughout the year, reflecting the same cooperation and care that define how we work together inside the company.
Our Heritage
Equine and Ovine Blood Products was a family partnership founded in 1978 with a contract to supply sterile Horse and Sheep blood to Gibco BRL in Paisley.
Over the next eleven years the business grew as Gibco secured a high percentage of market share in the UK clinical sector and introduced the first commercially manufactured ready-to-use culture media.
In 1989 an American directive determined the sale of the clinical microbiology division of Gibco’s UK operation, which meant that E&O’s donor blood harvesting business had no route to market and required investment and microbiology expertise to go it alone
After six months exposure to political and corporate turmoil, a financial crisis split the family partnership and E&O Laboratories Ltd was launched as an entrepreneurial gamble for the owner Virginia Lucey.