Sun Bear Biofuture Completes £25,000 Pilot Plant for Yeast-Derived Cocoa Butter Alternative
Oxford-based biotech startup Sun Bear Biofuture has completed its first production run using a custom-built pilot plant designed to manufacture a cocoa butter alternative via yeast fermentation, at a setup cost of £25,000 — a fraction of the £350,000 to £1 million typically required for conventional precision fermentation facilities. A low-cost route to scale The pilot plant, which is automated and end-to-end, has production capacity for dozens of kilograms per …