Agriculture and environmental
Agriculture and environmental
Advancing agriculture and environmental solutions
Bioprocess technology plays a critical role by supporting both the agriculture and environmental sectors. Within agriculture, it enables the production of eco-friendly biofertilizers and biopesticides, while facilitating advancements in crop breeding through plant cell culture techniques. In the environmental sector, bioprocess technology aids in monitoring and remediating polluted sites, contributing to sustainable bioproduction practices that help preserve ecosystems. Its versatility and eco-friendly applications make bioprocess technology a key player in promoting agricultural sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Agriculture and environmental challenges
Sustainability
Addressing the crucial challenge of balancing agricultural productivity with environmental conservation is paramount. Agriculture's demands often strain vital resources like water and soil, resulting in degradation and biodiversity decline. Concurrently, pollution and climate change in the environmental sphere pose imminent threats to ecosystems and human well-being.
Resource efficiency
Agriculture demands extensive quantities of water, energy, and land, leading to inefficiencies and resource depletion. Likewise, environmental remediation endeavors often consume significant resources and time, necessitating efficient solutions to streamline resource utilization.
Data management and analysis
Both the agriculture and environmental sectors generate vast amounts of data from various sources, posing a challenge in managing and analyzing it effectively to inform decision-making. This data is crucial for continuous monitoring of key process parameters in agricultural and environmental settings, ensuring optimal conditions for desired outcomes.
Sustainability
Addressing the crucial challenge of balancing agricultural productivity with environmental conservation is paramount. Agriculture's demands often strain vital resources like water and soil, resulting in degradation and biodiversity decline. Concurrently, pollution and climate change in the environmental sphere pose imminent threats to ecosystems and human well-being.
Resource efficiency
Agriculture demands extensive quantities of water, energy, and land, leading to inefficiencies and resource depletion. Likewise, environmental remediation endeavors often consume significant resources and time, necessitating efficient solutions to streamline resource utilization.
Data management and analysis
Both the agriculture and environmental sectors generate vast amounts of data from various sources, posing a challenge in managing and analyzing it effectively to inform decision-making. This data is crucial for continuous monitoring of key process parameters in agricultural and environmental settings, ensuring optimal conditions for desired outcomes.
Agriculture and environmental product offerings
INFORS HT specializes in bioprocess equipment and automation for the agriculture and environmental industries, featuring advanced bioreactors, incubator shakers, and bioprocess software. Our solutions are designed to optimize growth conditions while promoting environmental stewardship and operational efficiency through enhanced resource management.
Incubator shakers
Boost your agricultural and environmental research endeavors with INFORS HT's cutting-edge incubator shakers. Crafted for top-notch performance and resource efficiency, these shakers maximize space utilization while maintaining exact temperature control. Achieve reliable and reproducible outcomes, thereby establishing excellence in growth condition management.
Bioreactors
Discover innovative advancements in bioprocessing with INFORS HT bioreactors. Our state-of-the-art technology provides improved precision, scalability, and control, amplifying your research productivity. Explore how our bioreactors empower you to attain exceptional results in your agricultural and environmental bioprocess applications, while optimizing sustainability, resource efficiency, and data management.
Bioprocess platform software
Seamlessly incorporate advanced monitoring and control features into cultivation systems with INFORS HT eve® bioprocess platform software. Our cutting-edge software offers real-time evaluation of vital culture parameters. Harnessing the power of online sensors and intelligent automation, optimize growth conditions and process stability, transforms bioprocess operations within agriculture and environmental science industries.
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Digitalization is becoming essential for modern bioprocess development, but many laboratories still struggle with fragmented data, disconnected equipment, and inefficient workflows. Drawing on experience in both academic research and biotechnology environments, Sebastian Schneider shares how eve bioprocess software helps scientists integrate laboratory systems, improve process visibility, simplify data management, and create more connected bioprocess workflows.
Delivery performance matters in bioprocess development. To improve lead times, increase transparency, and build a stronger foundation for continuous improvement, INFORS HT partnered with STAUFEN, part of Accenture, to rethink the pilot bioreactor order fulfillment process. This behind-the-scenes look shows how we challenged our own ways of working and what the changes mean for our customers.
Moving a mammalian cell culture process from shake flask to bioreactor is more than a scale-up exercise. Each transition introduces new challenges in oxygen transfer, pH control, CO₂ management, mixing, and data reproducibility. This practical guide explores the key stages of cell culture process development, explains why process transfer often fails, and shows how integrated bioreactor control and data management help create scalable, reproducible processes from screening through scale-up.