The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) is an open-access

R&D centre working at the interface between academia and industry to develop, scale-up and help commercialise bio-based products and processes. At the BDC, we offer a broad variety of services in the fields of chemistry and biology to help businesses convert plants, microbes and biowastes into profitable green products. Our team of specialists can help businesses with their research and development activities and de-risk the innovation process by providing access to expertise and facilities to assess feasibility of biorenewables projects.

The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) is an open-access R&D biorefinery centre, based at the University of York, working at the interface between academia and industry to convert plants, microbes and biowastes into profitable biorenewable products. With biologists, chemists, and business development specialists the BDC team offers a unique combination of multi-disciplinary expertise coupled with pilot-scale processing capabilities in one coordinated centre. Covering a broad spectrum of biorefining technologies, from feedstock assessment to product evaluation, the team specialise in making the most out of biorenewable materials; helping ideas to survive the valley of death; and de-risking the innovation process.