Brisbane CRC works on one of the worlds most efficient
producers of carbon
With the demand for sustainable energy and renewable bioproducts increasing, a Brisbane-based CRC is working on one of the world’s most efficient producers of carbon, sugarcane, to identify sought-after new environmentally friendly bioproducts. The Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnololgy (CRC SIIB) has in recent years been injecting an enormous amount of effort and expertise into evolving future business opportunities for Australian sugarcane. And, as head of the CRC SIIB, Dr Peter Twine reveals, positive news of a profitable season ahead for Australian sugar should not detract from the significant headway being made in biotechnology research.
In the following interview, Dr Twine gives examples of research by the Australian sugarcane industry’s major competitors and why, as a major export industry, change needs to be embraced; he highlights the current impetus behind value adding sugarcane and the need to sustain efforts in this area.
Brisbane CRC works on one of the worlds most efficient
producers of carbon
With the demand for sustainable energy and renewable bioproducts increasing, a Brisbane-based CRC is working on one of the world’s most efficient producers of carbon, sugarcane, to identify sought-after new environmentally friendly bioproducts. The Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnololgy (CRC SIIB) has in recent years been injecting an enormous amount of effort and expertise into evolving future business opportunities for Australian sugarcane. And, as head of the CRC SIIB, Dr Peter Twine reveals, positive news of a profitable season ahead for Australian sugar should not detract from the significant headway being made in biotechnology research.
In the following interview, Dr Twine gives examples of research by the Australian sugarcane industry’s major competitors and why, as a major export industry, change needs to be embraced; he highlights the current impetus behind value adding sugarcane and the need to sustain efforts in this area.