Biorefining centre developing ways of converting plants and wastes into products
The BDC is an open-access R&D centre working at the interface between academia and industry to develop, scale-up and help commercialise bio-based products and processes.
Biorefining is set for rapid expansion in the next decade with the bioeconomy already worth around € 2 trillion across the EU. Learn about what we are doing to de-risk industry innovations.
Read all about our open-access facilities, set up for all sorts of biorefining projects, such as: breeding new types of plants, turning biomass into energy or optimising cosmetic products. Discover our capabilities
Scientists in the UK and India have successfully come together to take a major by-product of the sugarcane industry and turn it into the valuable bio-based chemical, citric acid.Case study