Industrials

Overview

Revolutionize your industrial processes with biology

Across energy production, chemical and material manufacturing, and waste remediation, synthetic biology can revolutionize today’s industrial processes. Ginkgo’s platform enables biological solutions that lower costs, open new markets, valorize waste streams, and create sustainable supply chains. Leverage Ginkgo’s services as an R&D partner and disrupt your own industry.

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Your end-to-end
synthetic biology partner.

Whether you’re developing new biological solutions or improving an existing one, Ginkgo is your one-stop shop for biological innovation. Our end-to-end services enable you to engineer and optimize organisms that meet your industrial needs, deploy them at commercial scale, and fine-tune their production for ideal economics. See below for a selection of our application areas.

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Energy & Fuels

Energy & Fuels

Develop microbes with biosynthetic pathways to produce fuels from novel, low-cost feedstocks including waste, organic byproducts or co-products from other industrial processes, or less refined versions of conventional feedstocks
Augment and improve biogas production with biological processes to degrade recalcitrant substrates and optimize methane yields

Waste Remediation & Valorization

Waste Remediation & Valorization

Engineer strains that convert waste streams into fuels, feeds, chemicals, and materials
Design microbes with metabolic pathways that degrade and recycle plastics

Materials & Chemicals

Materials & Chemicals

Complement polymer chemistry with biological augmentations, such as highly specific functional groups, that increase the performance of your product
Build new circular economies that utilize industrial byproducts rather than petroleum-based molecules

Ethanol

Ethanol

Increase the value of sugars and proteins produced in first-generation ethanol plants
Create enzymatic and microbial pretreatments to enable a new generation of second-generation ethanol plants

Mining & Metals

Mining & Metals

Engineer biological methods for detecting and sequestering valuable metals and minerals that conventional recovery techniques cannot access
Develop biological treatments that reduce the environmental and safety hazards of mining sites

Water Treatment

Water Treatment

Detect, remove, and degrade harmful chemicals, plastics, and metals from wastewater streams
Enable sludge dewatering to create new opportunities to utilize sludge and organic matter, while avoiding the costs of landfilling

Services We Provide

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What We Do

Featured Projects & News

Ginkgo is your end-to-end synthetic biology R&D partner. Browse a selection of our partner projects and case studies to explore how our services are being used across industries.

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Enzymes

Whether you’re looking for a biocatalyst to replace a chemical synthesis step, looking to improve your enzyme’s function, or aiming to lower your manufacturing costs, Ginkgo’s best-in-class enzyme capabilities empower your R&D.

Enzymes

MARKETS WE SERVE

Overview

Revolutionize your industrial processes with biology

Your end-to-endsynthetic biology partner.

Select Industries

Energy & Fuels

Energy & Fuels

Waste Remediation & Valorization

Waste Remediation & Valorization

Materials & Chemicals

Materials & Chemicals

Ethanol

Ethanol

Mining & Metals

Mining & Metals

Water Treatment

Water Treatment

Services We Provide

Enzyme Services

Protein Services

Metabolic Engineering Services

Strain Optimization Services

Process Design & Scale Up Services

Biosecurity Services

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Featured Projects & News

Enzymes

Optimizing Crucial Drug Manufacturing of APIs with Merck

Improving the Specificity and Activity of a Biocatalyst

Enzyme Discovery Powered by Large Metagenomic Libraries

Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

The Enzyme Intelligence Virtual Event

Advancing Treatments for Orphan and Rare Diseases with Selecta Biosciences

Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Investigational Synthetic Biotic Medicine for Homocystinuria with Synlogic

New Platform Venture: Launching BiomEdit

Launching Ginkgo Enzyme Services

Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

Optimizing Key Components in Vaccine Production for a Global Market

Developing Synthetic Biotics for Gout with Synlogic

Accelerating Production of Essential Medicines with Antheia

Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

Discovering Enzymes for New Applications

The Era of Living Medicines with Synlogic

Proteins

High Throughput Screening for Designing Novel CAR-T Cell Therapies

Developing Next-Generation Gene Therapy Capsids with Selecta Biosciences

Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

Revolutionizing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: A Leap Forward in Biocatalysis

Optimizing Silk Protein Production with Bolt Threads

New Platform Venture: Arcaea

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Engineering Living Biotherapeutics for Gastrointestinal Health with Tantu

A New Modality of Medicine: Nucleic Acid Vaccines

New Platform Venture: Introducing Motif

Metabolic Engineering

Unlocking the Potential of Expression Systems for Medicines with Novo Nordisk

Optimizing Production of Biobased Speciality Chemicals with Lygos

Producing Rare, Natural Ingredients with Givaudan

Sustainable Beauty and Personal Care Products with Sumitomo Chemical

Metabolic Engineering for Lower Cost Feedstocks

Commercializing Cultured Ingredients with Robertet

Celebrating Cronos Group’s First-of-a-Kind CBC Product

Scaling Production of Cultured THCV with Cronos Group

Ultra High Throughput Genome Engineering for the Production of Specialty Chemicals

Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

Biobased Alternatives to Synthetic Polymers with Bioweg

Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

Better Baby Formula with NAMUH

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Improving Production Efficiency for Vibrant Food Colors with Phytolon

Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

From Plant to Yeast: Revolutionizing Nutraceutical Production with Ginkgo’s Enzyme Intelligence

New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

New Platform Venture: Launching BiomEdit

New Platform Venture: Arcaea

Your end-to-end
synthetic biology partner.