What do you get when you combine a backyard grill, an amateur welder, and pure determination? Xcellerex™ technologies.

Before anyone had ever heard of single-use options in biomanufacturing, Parrish Galliher, the founder of the Xcellerex™ company, was determined that there had to be a better way to complete his customer projects than the clean-in-place, steam-in-place protocol used with his existing stainless steel manufacturing options. Left alone with a welding torch, a Big Green Egg grill, and his own devices, Galliher welded sides onto the grill, used a heat-sealing device to make his own bags, and fashioned a mixing mechanism on the bottom of the grill. The result? The first design for a disposable single bioreactor, leading to the birth of the Xcellerex™ brand and products.