A&F

The Agrotechnology and Food Innovations B.V. (A&F) group of Wageningen University and Research Centre provides fundamental, strategic and applied research to enable rapid transfer of academic knowledge to the market. The Business Unit ‘Bio-based Products’ has a strong focus on primary streams of biomass and bio-residues to produce sustainable industrial raw materials, green chemicals (added value products) and bio-energy, and has extensive experience / expertise in:

• Biomass conversion, taking into account biomass composition, availability and costs;
• Physical, chemical and enzymatic pre-treatment of biomass;
• Microbial biochemistry, physiology and genomics, bioprocess technology and optimization of fermentation processes.

Important topics are the production and application of a variety of biopolymers including bacterial cellulose, starch, polyhydroxyalkanoates, polylactic acid, collagenous peptides and cyanophycin.

Wageningen University and Research Centre
Agrotechnology and Food Innovations B.V. (A&F)
P.O. Box 17
6700 AA Wageningen
Bornsesteeg 59 (Building 118)
6708 PD Wageningen
The Netherlands

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