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Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry (1998) 27, (1–8) (Printed in Great Britain)

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Review

Industrial products – the return to carbohydrate-based industries

Ariel Louwrier

Advanced Biotechnologies Ltd., Unit B1, Longmead Business Centre, Blenheim Road, Epsom, Surrey KT19 9QQ, U.K.

Abbreviations: MTBE, methyl t-butyl ether; HPG, hydroxyphenylglycine.

This review is aimed at generating a wide-scale perspective of the current ways in which an extensive range of industrial products are produced, and how the move towards carbohydrate-based industries has not only started, but is well under way. It is separated into two fundamental parts. In the first the role of biofuel production is examined, and in the second the role of speciality chemicals and enzymes is outlined, the latter not just as biocatalysts, but also as end products.

Received 21 May 1997; accepted 19 September 1997

© 1998 The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology