Bioindustrial Process Research Centre (BPRC)

生物质是加拿大化学工业的未来。生物基产品通过整合可再生的生物原料来创新各种产品，重新定义了工业和消费品。生物基化学品是这一不断增长的产品创新领域的关键部分，因为它们代表了未来生物基产品所需的化学构建模块的发展。基于强有力的社区指导，认识到萨尼亚-兰姆顿自然适合不断发展的经济多样化和建立新的产业集群，萨尼亚-兰姆顿生物混合和化学集群于2007年成立，以合并和建立碳氢化合物和生物基础经济的优势。兰姆顿学院（LC）作为该地区唯一支持集群的教育和应用研究提供者，建立了生物工业过程研究中心（BPRC）。BPRC是一项非常成功的倡议，通过刺激经济发展和向区域内外的合作伙伴转让技术，成为成功建设集群的关键因素。在过去的9年里（4年作为研究中心，5年作为研究小组），BPRC为中小企业提供了大量的项目和服务，并在帮助区域集群建设方面发挥了至关重要的作用。在这个阶段，建议将研究中心提升为技术查阅中心是必要的，以支持和发展该研究中心，提供更广泛的服务。

Biomass is the future of Canada s chemical industries. Bio-based products are redefining industrial and consumer products by integrating renewable, biological raw materials to innovate a wide range of products. Bio-based chemicals are a key part of this growing sector of product innovations, as they represent the development of the chemical building blocks needed for future bio-based products. Based on strong community direction that recognizes Sarnia-Lambton s natural fit for ongoing developments to diversify the economy and build a new industrial cluster, a Sarnia-Lambton Bio-Hybrid and Chemistry Cluster was established in 2007 to merge and build on the strengths of the hydrocarbon-based and bio-based economies.Lambton College (LC) as the only education and applied research provider in the region to support the Cluster established the Bioindustrial Process Research Centre (BPRC). The BPRC has been a very successful initiative and become a critical factor in successfully building the Cluster through stimulating economic development and technology transfer to the partners located in the region and beyond. The BPRC has significantly increased the number of projects and services to SMEs in last 9 years (4 years as the Research Centre and 5 years as a research group) and has a vital role in helping regional cluster building initiative. The proposed enhancement of the BPRC as a Technology Access Centre (TAC) is necessary at this phase to support and grow this research center to provide a wider range of services.