Hanover. Yesterday evening, on the opening day of the
Biotechnica 2007, Lower Saxony's Minister of Finance Hartmut
Möllring (CDU) visited the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) and was impressed by the biotechnological innovation presented there. Visitors can get to see these nonpolluting solutions by 11th October on the stand B26 in hall 9 on the Hanover fair grounds. Together with six project partners, the DBU exemplifies “integrated biotechnology”. “For more than ten years, the foundation has been particularly involved in the industrial – the 'white' – biotechnology“, emphasized Dr. Rainer
Erb as responsible DBU project leader. “On this foremost fair of the European biotechnology industry the DBU shows prosperities of commercial realisation of ecologically and economically advantageous procedures.” Since the foundation had introduced its promotional focus biotechnology in 1997, more than 300 projects received financial backing totaling around 90 million Euro.
Biotechnica - foremost fair of biotechnology industry
Over 900 exhibitors and 13,000 visitors get together in Hanover at the 15th Biotechnica. In addition to the different topics of the fair – pharma, medicine, agriculture, nutrition or environment, there are conferences, an exchange service for business partners and the presentation of the
European Biotechnica Award.
DBU project partners offer innovation preserving the environment"By using biotechnological innovation, natural basic elements are spared, environmental impacts avoided or reduced and entrepreneurial risks minimized“, underlined Dr. Erb whilst Hartmut Möllring visited the stand. The DBU project partners offered interesting alternatives for the effective recovery of new resources and active substances. The DBU initiative
InnovationsCentrum Biokatalyse ICBio successfully contributed to a widespread diffusion process of biotechnological innovation comprising ecological and economic advantages. The network was coordinated by Professor Dr. Garabed
Antranikian of the
Technical University (TU) Hamburg-Harburg. For his pioneering work in the area of the white biotechnology he was awarded the
German Environmental Award of the DBU in 2004 and is exhibitor on this year’s DBU fair presence.
Six DBU projects presented on the fair Also the
ChemBioTec network, initiated in 2006 and coordinated by Professor Dr. Andreas
Schmid from the
University of Dortmund, is presented in place. According to Dr. Erb introduced ChemBioTech solutions geared to improve the processing of renewable primary products to ecological products using the very latest in biotechnology. Further partners on the DBU stand are the company
Biospring from Frankfurt,
OrganoBalance from Berlin, the Chair for Biotechnology of the University of Dortmund and the
Institute for Biochemistry of the Technical University (TU) Dresden.