Hexagon Tower

Lab space to rent in Manchester

Manchester’s Home for Advanced Materials, Sustainable Chemistry and Applied Science

Hexagon Tower is home to the people shaping the future of advanced materials, sustainable chemistry and applied science, built on more than 250 years of scientific heritage.

Trusted by organisations including Smartkem, Arxada, Lubrizol and Colour Synthesis Solutions, Hexagon Tower brings together scientists, innovators, universities, investors and industry partners in one place.

With Category 2 laboratories, flexible workspace and a community that helps great ideas grow, Pioneer Group supports innovators in bringing ideas out of the lab and into the world.

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A Home for Advanced Materials, Sustainable Chemistry and Applied Science

Take on lab and office space with just one month’s notice and adjust your space with only three months’ notice if your plans change.

Layout not quite working? Our in-house engineers can sort benching, data points and storage so your lab actually works for you.

Hexagon Tower sits alongside The Henry Royce Institute, the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University, putting you a short trip from world-class research and the next generation of scientists.

Manchester’s five universities send a steady stream of new graduates into the city’s science and technology scene each year.

Regular pitching competitions, investment updates and trade visits are just some of the perks of being based at Hexagon Tower.

A chance for people to swap notes, share what they’ve learned and get to know the wider Hexagon Tower community.

Our café and community space, serving fresh, seasonally led food from breakfast through to an afternoon pick-me-up. It’s yours out of hours too, for team socials and events and The Hive meeting room is bookable by any company based at Hexagon Tower.

Open seven days a week from 7.00am to 9.00pm, exclusively for the companies who call Hexagon Tower home, with free lunchtime and evening fitness classes plus changing and shower facilities.

Amenities

Working collaboratively
for change

  • On-site parking

  • Café restaurant – The Hive

  • Gym

  • High speed internet

  • Unique common areas

  • Shared outdoor spaces

  • Bike storage

  • Showers & hair dryers

  • Meeting rooms

  • Good transport links

  • Cleaning services

  • Hazardous waste disposal

  • Fully accessible

  • Post and parcel service

Lab & office space
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Office and lab space for rent goes quickly,
this could be your chance to join us.

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Team

Introducing our experts

Simon Stuart

Site Director

Lynette Dutton

Guest Experience Host

Stacey Oxlade Cook

Occupier Relations & Finance Manager
Testimonial

“Hexagon is a real community, it’s been great getting to know the other companies on site.”

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Location

Neighbourhood

Hexagon Tower occupies the historic site of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Blackley, North Manchester, in a ten-floor building designed by Richard Seifert, one of Britain’s foremost modernist architects.

Step outside and you’re close to some of the UK’s biggest names in advanced materials and applied science. The Henry Royce Institute, the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research, has its hub at the nearby The University of Manchester, alongside Manchester Metropolitan University and North Manchester General Hospital. The wider region is also home to Atom Valley, Greater Manchester’s flagship growth location for advanced materials and manufacturing, adding further weight to the area’s strength in the sectors Hexagon Tower serves.

Hexagon Tower – Pioneer Group
Crumpsall Vale
Blackley
Manchester
M9 8GQ
England

Road

Take junction 20 off the M60. Travel south down the A664 and take a left onto Old Market Street. Follow this road and you will see Hexagon Tower on the left-hand side. The Tower has ample secure parking facilities on site.

Rail

Crumpsall Vale Metrolink station is a 10-minute walk away from Hexagon Tower and has a direct connection to Manchester Piccadilly station.

Bike

Hexagon Tower has secure bicycle storage on site which is available 24/7, 365 days a year.

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