23/09/2024
Chengzhi has become a technology leader for the D-ribose products in the global biomanufacturing industry.
Chengzhi's subsidiaries have successively completed the technological development and incubation of various functional sugar products such as D-ribose, 2-deoxyribose, L-ribose, D-mannose, and D-allulose, as well as amino acid products like L-glutamine, L-theanine, L-arginine, L-alanyl-L-glutamine, and glutathione. In addition, the company has also reserved new products and technologies.
In tandem with its own growth, Chengzhi has been promoting the development of the industry. The company has been involved in drafting national standards, such as the Guidelines for the Classification of Amino Acid Products, and industry standards for L-theanine, L-arginine, Branched-chain amino acids (L-leucine, L-isoleucine, L-valine), L-glutamine, and trimethylglycine and its hydrochloride. In the field of specialty functional sugars, Chengzhi's self-developed technologies for D-ribose, D-mannose, and D-allulose are at the forefront of international standards. After more than two decades of active investment, Chengzhi's D-ribose products currently dominate the global market, with wide applications in pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, food and beverages, clinical nutrition, etc.
According to a representative from Chengzhi's synthetic biology division, the company began exploring the D-ribose sector in 2001, and its project - "D-ribose Production via Fermentation" - was successively included in the National Technology Innovation Plan in 2002, the National Plan for New Key Products in 2004, and the National Biological Structure Adjustment and Industrial Upgrade Programme in 2005. Chengzhi was the first both domestically and internationally to complete the industrial development of the innovative fermentation-based direct purification and one-step crystallization process for producing D-ribose. All process indicators are at the forefront of the industry, making the company a technological leader in D-ribose products in the global biomanufacturing industry, with its core technologies forming a number of intellectual property rights. In addition, Chengzhi's subsidiary, Jiangxi Chengzhi Bioengineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jiangxi Chengzhi Bio"), has served as the incubation and industrial hub for this project. It has built a D-ribose production line with a comprehensive quality assurance system and industry-leading technology, which was recognized as a National High-tech Industrialization Demonstration Project.
In the field of D-ribose production technology, compared to extraction and synthetic methods, the fermentation process developed by Chengzhi operates under mild conditions without the use of any toxic or harmful chemicals. The resulting product boasts high purity, excellent quality, and stable performance, making it an economically viable, safe, and environmentally friendly green biomanufacturing process. On September 9, 2021, Chengzhi's Key Technology Development and Application of D-ribose Production via Fermentation passed the scientific and technological achievement appraisal organized by the China National Light Industry Council, with the overall technology reaching an internationally leading level.
