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The Deakin BioFactory
Establishing Victoria’s multibillion dollar bioeconomy
The Deakin BioFactory is part of the Circular Economy Accelerator-Organics (CEA-O) cooperative, a collaboration with Monash University, RMIT University and 20 industry partners.
Transforming Victoria's waste industry
The Deakin BioFactory aims to provide industry, councils and other partners with a one-stop shop for technology development for handling food waste, agricultural waste and marine by-products. The CEA-O will address how we can use these as input renewable materials to develop a range of valuable products within a single biorefinery.
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.
Opportunities when you work with us
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.
Victorian Government’s Higher Education State Investment Fund
The $16.4 million project has been supported by a $10 million investment through the Victorian Government’s Higher Education State Investment Fund (VHESIF) to help create a Victorian circular economy powerhouse.
How we're driving change
Waste is a critical problem for all industries with accelerating recognition of the urgent need to redesign, repurpose and reuse products to create a sustainable existence and maximise the value of resources. Deakin's BioFactory will deliver a cleaner, greener Victoria with less waste and pollution, better recycling and position Victoria as the innovation leader in the processing of organic waste.
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