Bioprocess
development
in Industrial
Biotechnology

Biotrend is a research-based company specialized in the development, optimization and scale-up of bioprocesses.

Our advanced services help designing cost-competitive processes that are robust at industrially relevant scales, particularly in the area of industrial and marine biotechnology.

We are experienced in dealing with a wide range of natural or genetically modified microorganisms.

We work with real-life renewable raw-materials to produce a wide range of products, from biomass to chemicals, biopolymers or recombinant enzymes.

Our advanced bioprocessing know-how has been serving clients from small biotech startups to global corporations.

Advanced Services

Process development and optimization

Devise cultivation strategies aiming at maximizing productivities, yields and titers.
Advanced process optimization strategies, based on a thorough understanding of the dynamics of the biological system.
Process integration with raw material pre-processing and with downstream processing.

Process scale-up, de-risking and validation

2L, 10L, 50L and 250L bioreactors available for thorough scale-up studies and process de-risking.
Direct access to facilities from 1,000L to 200,000L fermentation capacity through a network of partners.

Experienced with biodiversity

Bacteria

Actinobacillus succinogenes
Alcaligenes latus
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
Bacillus megaterium
Basfia succiniciproducens
Burkholderia sacchari
Corynebacterium glutamicum
Cupriavidus necator
Cupriavidus taiwanensis
Escherichia coli
Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava
Lactobacillus casei
Lactobacillus reuteri
Mycobacterium sp.
Pseudoalteromonas sp.
Pseudomonas citronellolis
Pseudomonas putida
Pseudomonas sp.
Rhodococcus sp.
Rhodothermus marinus
Sphingomonas sp.
Sphyngopyxis macrogoltabida
Sulfitobacter sp.
Vibrio sp.

Yeasts and fungi

Aureobasidium pullulans
Cryphonectria parasitica
Hanseniaspora uvarum
Kazachstania turicensis
Kluyveromyces lactis
Metschnikowia pulcherrima
Saccharmoyces cerevisiae
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Torulaspora delbrueckii
Yarrowia lipolytica