The Deakin BioFactory

Delivering an advanced biomanufacturing capability

Deakin’s BioFactory will deliver an advanced biomanufacturing capability at Deakin’s Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong, linked to expanded facilities at RMIT for food, water and biosolids processing, and connected to product, process quality and analysis capabilities at Monash University.

The BioFactory will focus on:

• reducing organic waste going to landfill
• developing new approaches to transform and process organic waste
• testing and innovating new processing techniques at a pilot manufacturing scale, enabling industry to de-risk future investments in biomanufacturing
• transforming biomass and biosolid waste into valuable outputs including feeds, nutrition, fertilisers and biomaterials, contributing to a waste-minimising circular economy
• creating new products and alternatives to petrochemical derived products
• transforming under-utilised marine biomass into bioproduct
• building long-term collaborative partnerships with the agriculture, food, water and other adjacent industries.

We want to position Victoria as the innovation leader in the processing of organic waste, and future-proof Victoria’s industry and supply chains. By working with the BioFactory, there is a significant opportunity to deliver a cleaner, greener Victoria with less waste and pollution, and better recycling. Together, we can create jobs and pave the way for growth in our local manufacturing industry and scale up our advanced manufacturing processes.