Croda Canada Limited

Published purpose

Croda Canada Limited is focused on the discovery and development of novel specialty chemicals for the personal care sector from its proprietary collection of marine bacteria and fungi. While the culture collection is comprised of marinederived microorganisms collected by SCUBA at depths ranging from 30-100 ft, access to infrastructure to conduct fermentations at pressures that mimic the natural habitats of these microorganisms has not been previously available. As a result, it is likely that fermentation processes conducted at atmospheric pressure are unable to induce production of the full repertoire of metabolites encoded in the genomes of the marine microorganisms in the collection. By utilizing the novel high-pressure bioreactor technology developed by Advanced Extraction Systems Inc. in collaboration with the NRC, the Project will investigate the effect of pressure on the production of bioactive metabolites by three marine microorganisms. Results will be used to develop novel routes to new personal care products.