VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

VTT is a visionary research and innovation partner for companies and society

VTT is one of Europe’s leading research institutions. We are owned by the Finnish state. We advance the utilisation and commercialisation of research and technology in commerce and society. Through scientific and technological means, we turn large global challenges into sustainable growth for businesses and society. We bring together people, business, science and technology to solve the biggest challenges of our time. This is how we create sustainable growth, jobs and wellbeing and bring exponential hope.

Biotechnology

The biotechnological revolution is rapidly transforming industrial processes in the chemical, material, energy, food and pharmaceutical industries – altering consumers' everyday lives. Biotechnology will disrupt how we produce raw materials for various goods. We at VTT create cell factories that, for example, produce the desired cell biomass, chemicals and proteins for enzyme, food, and pharmaceutical applications.

VTT’s industrial biotechnology infrastructure is for developing cell factories and production concepts to produce proteins, biomaterials and biochemicals. Our crucial research equipment is for automated synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, analytics for biomolecules and other metabolites, and fermentation and downstream processes. Our state-of-the-art research and piloting facilities provide for efficient genetic code design for organisms, the development of new and efficient production hosts, and scaling of production processes. The facilities enable research and innovation from the laboratory to pilot scale.