CPI, a tech innovation centre and founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult, has completed its collaborative project with agriculture company, Syngenta, to develop purification methods for novel crop protection products.
To help ensure food security, there is a growing need for new and innovative crop protection solutions with a focus on sustainability, helping to ensure that farmers can feed the growing population.
After a previous successful collaboration, Syngenta approached CPI to develop scalable purification methods for a new product.
The project took place at CPI’s facilities in Darlington, UK, using its state-of-the-art downstream processing suite. CPI used its robotics platform to screen different conditions to optimise the process.
There were several challenging aspects of the project. CPI’s expertise in downstream processing, as well as its wealth of cutting-edge capabilities, allowed these challenges to be overcome, resulting in the successful development of a robust purification method.
CPI and Syngenta will continue their collaboration and will begin work on a further project to progress the new method to a larger scale.
