Our Vision

• Develop the research and development capacity to enable Ontario to become the world leader in biomaterials, with a special focus on the auto industry

• Develop a collaborative interdisciplinary network, which will include biologists, engineers, and economists, as well as partners from the agricultural and manufacturing sectors.

• Develop sustainable alternatives to depleting petroleum resources

• Produce greener bioproducts to substitute non-renewable materials in many manufacturing sectors, consumer goods and services

• Help Ontario facilitate a transition to a biobased economy and position the University of Guelph as a world leader in the field of bioproducts

• Provide a nexus where physical and engineering scientists and plant biologists will work together on viable solutions to some of today's most pressing problems
  

• Explore ways to add value to waste agricultural products

• Draw researchers from other universities and from industry