Human resources

Biotrend has a lean structure built around its most valuable asset, a team 100% devoted to bioprocessing, including expertise in biotechnology, bioengineering, microbiology, chemical engineering and organic chemistry. Combined experience of +1000 fermentation runs at various scales. Staff with international experience: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland.

Infrastructure

Biotrend operates a state-of-the art development lab and bioprocessing pilot plant with capacities from 1 mL to 250L fermentation scale and performs the transition of processes to industrially relevant scales through access to facilities within its network of partners.

Main equipment available

• 9x 2L, 2x 10L, 2x 50L, 1x 250L bioreactors
• Tubular centrifugal clarifier
• Disk stack centrifuge
• Decanter centrifuge
• High-capacity ultracentrifuge
• Pilot scale homogeniser
• Microfiltration and ultrafiltration, polymeric flat membranes and tubular ceramic membranes
• Bench-scale spray dryer
• 3x large capacity refrigerated orbital shaking incubators
• Auto-sampler for 2L fermenters (Groton Biosystems)
• Rotary evaporator with continuous operation set-up
• Preparative chromatography
• Ion exchange and adsorption columns
• Comprehensive analytics for fermentation process characterisation (UV/VIS spectrophotometers and microplate reader; HPLC instruments; GC-MS; protein gel electrophoresis; thermobalance)