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材料来重新定义工业和消费品，以创新各种产品。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件的开发。基于强大的社区方向，认识到Sarnia-Lambton的天然适合持续发展，以实现经济多样化并建立新的产业集群，Sarnia-Lambton生物混合和化学集群于2007年成立，以合并和建立基于碳氢化合物和生物的经济优势。兰顿学院（LC）作为该地区唯一的教育和应用研究提供商，以支持集群建立了生物工业过程研究中心（BPRC）。巴塞尔公约区域中心是一项非常成功的举措，通过刺激经济发展和向该区域内外的伙伴转让技术，成为成功建设集群的一个关键因素。在过去的9年里，BPRC大大增加了为中小企业提供的项目和服务的数量（4年作为研究中心，5年作为研究小组），并在帮助区域集群建设倡议方面发挥了至关重要的作用。在这一阶段，有必要加强作为技术获取中心的BPRC，以支持和发展这一研究中心，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.