DEINOVE partners with VTT Technical
DEINOVE announced a major partnership agreement with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
"We are delighted to welcome VTT's talented scientists onboard the DEINOL project. VTT is the largest multitechnological research organisation in Northern Europe. It is especially renowned for its expertise in enzyme discovery and engineering, with over 25 years' experience of lignocellulose degrading enzymes (such as cellulases, hemicellulases and other key-catalysts) for the production of chemicals from biomass sugars. In addition, VTT has cutting-edge skills and infrastructure for performing R&D in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and fermentation processes”, commented DEINOVE CEO Jacques Biton.
Ten senior VTT researchers will team up with DEINOVE and its French academic partners from CNRS and INSA to leverage the exceptional properties of Deinococcus bacteria in the digestion of biomass and the development of an integrated process for the bioproduction of ethanol and chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
The general objective of the work plan established by DEINOVE and VTT is to evaluate the different Deinococcus candidate strains screened by DEINOVE for the DEINOL cellulosic ethanol production process. The DEINOL process will then be scaled-up and tested in an industrial pilot by the sugarcompany TEREOS.
The agreement's financial terms have not been disclosed.
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