Biosphere is a company operating in industrial biotechnology, whose core business is the development of new fermentation processes for the production of molecules such as aminoacids, food and feed ingredients, high molecular weight polysaccharides for cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications, enzymes for the food and nutraceutical sector, antibiotics, antifungi.
BioSphere offers to other companies an efficient and qualified outsourcing service. The contract R&D service is mainly addressed to pharmaceutical companies which do not have or do not intend to have an internal R&D biotechnology department, and consists of process development and scale-up, from laboratory to pilot and pre-industrial scale. Biosphere performs a real partnership with its customers and provide a fully integrated service, which includes analytical quality control and contract manufacturing.
BioSphere also develops its own R&D projects, and is looking for partners, such as biotech companies or private research centres, with the aim of developing international research projects, with a focus on the production of biomaterials, biopolymers and high value chemicals from agricultural feedstocks and the application of fermentation to the production of functional food ingredients or nutraceuticals.

Company Strengths
LICENSES/TRADE MARKS/QUALITY CERTIFICATIONS/PATENTS: Biosphere has both Italian and European Patent for "Gels of hyaluronic acid cross-linked with bi-functional L-aminoacids or L-aminoesters or mixtures thereof". Biosphere has other Italian and European patents pending for "Soluble and bio-compatible gels of hyaluronic acid cross-linked with bi-functional L-aminoacids or L-aminoesters", "Process for the purification of Tryptophan" and "Low calorie sugar composition".
INNOVATIVE PROCESSES/SERVICES/PRODUCTS: Biosphere produces Fructo-oligosaccharides by fermentation of molasses.
R & D CAPACITY: The company’s R&D activities are focused on the development and scale-up of new fermentation processes for our own research projects and custom R&D. The facility is equipped with fermenters of different size, from 1 litre to 1.500 litres, and several micro, ultra and nanofiltration units for the separation of biomass and the isolation of the products.
EXPERTISE: Biosphere’s team includes biologists, chemists and food specialists. The company’s expertise is focused on industrial biotechnology and fermentation, downstream and product recovery.