Danone Forms a Quartet To Create Biotechnology Platform
Danone, Michelin, DMC and Crédit Agricole Centre France will aim to effectively scale up the precision fermentation process for the food industry
June 13, 2024 | Source: Nutraceutical Business Review
Danone, Michelin, the American start-up DMC Biotechnologies and Crédit Agricole Centre France, a key investor in the region, have begun collaborations to create the Biotech Open Platform to bolster the development of advanced fermentation processes.
This particularly relates to precision fermentation at a large scale, which allows the production of many bio-based materials and ingredients.
With an investment of more than EUR €16m in the first phase, the industrial and technological platform will be located in Clermont-Ferrand within the Parc Cataroux Center for Sustainable Materials; an innovation accelerator supported by Michelin.
The Biotech Open Platform is also supported by several public and private institutions, such as the University of Clermont Auvergne, the company Greentech, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Clermont Auvergne Métropole.