Biorenewables Development Centre

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.

The team focus on biorefining technologies, integrating modern genetics with green chemistry and processing techniques to create renewable chemicals and materials. We help develop manufacturing technologies that use plants, microbes and biowastes as the raw materials for high value products.

The open-access facilities bridge the gap between laboratory and industry, providing companies and academia with a way to test, develop and scale up biorefining processes.

The unique feature of the BDC is that it can also use molecular breeding to rapidly improve plants and microbes as raw materials for these processes. This creates the potential to source high value chemicals from plants by developing novel crops or improving those already in use.

The Biorenewables Development Centre is part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund Programme.