This will establish the North of England as the UK centre for the demonstration and scale-up of industrial biotechnology.
Dr Chris DoyleResearch Facility Project Leader
Centre for Process Innovation (CPI)
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By Jessica Healy, OurWorld Editor
The new centre at Wilton, Middlesbrough will be a key facility for bringing developments in biotechnology to the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Innovative products
The new centre will create chemical and pharmaceutical products using biological enzymes.
The centre will draw on a collaboration between Manchester and York universities known as the COEBio3 initiative.
The centre will allow companies located in the region to take advantage of advancements and to trial projects before bringing them to market.
Clean green processes
The facility will allow the chemicals industry to use cleaner, greener manufacturing methods using enzymes as catalysts.
“This technology is much more environmentally-friendly than traditional chemical manufacturing and embraces sustainable manufacturing for the future," said Dr Chris Doyle of CPI, who is leading the research facility project.
Centre for Process Innovation
The facility will be housed in the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the centre of excellence to develop new products and processes for the chemical sector.
CPI hopes the NIBF will be completed at the end of the year and will be able to sustain itself financially within two years.
For more information about the CPI, the hosts of the facility, see their website here
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