Complete Air Harvest Pilot Plant, Bioreactors and Processing Equipment Available in California
Heritage Global Partners will conduct an online auction of late-model precision fermentation, pilot plant and laboratory equipment from Air Harvest, with assets located in San Leandro and Hayward, California.
Bidding opens on 31 August 2026 at 7:00am PDT, with the auction closing from 9:00am PDT on 1 September. The sale brings together an extensive selection of processing, fermentation and analytical equipment, including a complete integrated pilot plant alongside machinery from recognised manufacturers such as Alfa Laval, Sartorius, Thermo Scientific, Agilent, Eppendorf, GEA and New Brunswick.
At the centre of the auction is a complete integrated precision fermentation pilot plant, offering prospective buyers the opportunity to acquire equipment designed for pilot-scale production and process development. Individual assets available across the two locations also cover fermentation, separation, drying, heat treatment, clean-in-place processes and laboratory analysis.
Key Equipment Available in the Air Harvest Auction
Highlights of the sale include:
- Complete integrated precision fermentation pilot plant
- Sicca Dania stainless steel spray dryer
- New Brunswick 500-litre stainless steel industrial fermenter
- Alfa Laval disc centrifuge skid
- DSP tank and HTST process skids
- USP HTST fermentation skid
- Watlow CIP system
- Thermo Scientific Prima Pro process mass spectrometer
- Sartorius and Applikon bioreactor systems
- Eppendorf DASGIP bioreactors
- Buchi B-290 mini spray dryer
- Labconco FreeZone 12-litre freeze dryer and bulk tray dryer
- GEA Niro Soavi PandaPLUS benchtop laboratory homogenizer
- Agilent HPLC system
- Azure Biosystems C200 bioanalytical imaging system
- Molecular Devices SpectraMax ID3
- Sartorius BioWelder TC sterile welding device
The breadth of equipment makes the auction relevant to businesses involved in biotechnology, food and ingredient development, industrial fermentation, process engineering, research and pilot-scale manufacturing. With complete systems offered alongside individual laboratory and processing assets, buyers can target equipment suited to both production expansion and research applications.
Heritage Global Partners is a global asset advisory and auction firm specialising in the sale of industrial, manufacturing, laboratory and technology assets. The company manages auctions and asset disposition projects across a broad range of industries, connecting surplus equipment from major facilities with an international network of buyers.
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