Biomanufacturing Revolution Promotion Project
Overview
This project provides comprehensive support for biomanufacturing, from collecting and converting unused resources into raw materials, through modifying microorganisms and other organisms, production, separation, purification, and processing, to the systems and standardization required for social implementation. It conducts technology development, demonstration, and research to build value chains with diverse raw materials and products as outputs. The project runs from fiscal 2023 through fiscal 2032, with a total budget of approximately 270 billion yen for the project period.
Key points
- The project provides comprehensive support for the biomanufacturing value chain, from unused resources to the social implementation of products.
- Research and development consists of five areas: unused resources, industrial microorganisms, manufacturing, separation, purification and processing, and evaluation methods.
- The project aims to transform manufacturing processes, promote the social implementation of products, strengthen Japan's industrial competitiveness, and solve social issues.
- The project runs from fiscal 2023 through fiscal 2032, with a budget of approximately 270 billion yen.
Overview
Biomanufacturing is expected to be used across diverse industrial fields, including chemicals, materials, textiles, and fuels, in addition to pharmaceuticals and food. It is described as sustainable manufacturing that can replace conventional manufacturing processes based on fossil resources and may become the industrial foundation of the next generation.
This project is a framework for developing and demonstrating the technologies and social systems required for value chains with diverse raw materials and diverse products as outputs.
Impact
The project promotes the transformation of manufacturing processes toward biomanufacturing and the social implementation of biomanufacturing products, aiming to strengthen Japan's industrial competitiveness and solve social issues.
Details
The research and development areas are: [1] collecting and converting unused resources into usable resources; [2] developing and breeding industrial microorganisms and other organisms and advancing platform technologies for their modification; [3] manufacturing target substances; [4] separating, purifying, and processing manufactured substances; and [5] evaluation methods and other measures for social implementation.
Selected projects advance research and development and demonstrations targeting eggshell membranes, materials from the paper manufacturing industry, construction waste, woody resources, sewage sludge, agricultural resources, waste plastics, and textiles, producing chemicals, fuels, resin raw materials, fats and oils, sugar-based materials, and cell-based Wagyu beef, among other products.
Except for trade secrets, participating companies and other organizations disclose their annual progress regarding management involvement, positioning within management strategies, and establishment of project promotion systems. The themes of ENEOS Corporation and Nagase & Co., Ltd. are stated to end in fiscal 2025.
The research covers domestic and international technology, policy, and market trends, and a basic study toward developing LCA guidelines for the biomanufacturing field will be conducted from fiscal 2025 through fiscal 2026. Copyright in the results report belongs to NEDO, and unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.
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