ABOUT US
Rooted in the Swiss culture
Vinci Life Science Applied SA is a partner with the goal of meeting customers’ needs in the sectors of chemical, biotechnology, renewable energy and pharma.
Our company focuses on the needs of its customers with the aim of establishing long-term relationships based on continuous support and confidentiality. We think that success is founded on motivation and overcome technical challenges through knowledge-sharing that lands in high performance solutions.
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Countries we work with
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Customers around the world
PRODUCTS
Benchtop Bioreactors
Stainless steel fermenters
Vinci Life Science Applied SA's industrial systems are designed and manufactured for ease of use with respect to safety
Clean steam, process gas lines, piping and manifolds are manufactured under strict controls according to GMP and GLP standards.
Our approach to equipment design is to discuss detailed project requirements with customers to achieve the desired goal.
Our BioSip series and BioFerm series portfolio contains a wide range of engineering and manufacturing solutions integrated to meet the process and equipment needs that are critical to the cell growth process.
Bioprocess equipments
OUR SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
The qualities of our company
Reactive
Immediate support, available by phone for different situations and to solve technical problems.
Upon request and if necessary, we dispatch one of our service technician
Preventive
Applications
Biomass
Biomass fermentation has the advantages of using considerably less land, water, and energy and producing a fraction of the greenhouse gases associated with traditional animal husbandry for the equivalent amount of protein. It can take weeks and months to rear animals or grow plants using traditional methods of protein production, whereas you can potentially produce the same quantity of protein using biomass fermentation in a couple of hours.
Biomass fermentation uses the high-protein content and rapid growth of microorganisms to efficiently make large amounts of protein-rich food. Ethanol can also be obtained from biomass and through fermentation. In this case microorganisms (e.g., bacteria and yeasts) metabolize plant sugars and produce it.
Enzymes
Enzymes are among the most important products obtained for human needs through microbial sources. Current developments in biotechnology are yielding new applications for enzymes and fermentation holds tremendous potential for their production.
In addition to the conventional applications in food and fermentation industries enzymes have attained a significant role in biotransformations, mainly for bioactive compounds.
Agro-industrial residues are generally considered the best substrates for the fermentation processes but other substrates can be: banana waste, tea waste, sugar cane bagasse, apple pomace, palm oil. Proteases are one of the most important groups of industrial enzymes and account for nearly 60% of the total enzyme sale and their major use occurs in dry cleaning, detergents and meat processing.
Cell cultivation
Cell culture is used as a model system to study basic cell biology and biochemistry, to study the interaction between cell and disease causing agents like bacteria, viruses and to study the process of aging. In the last decades cultured cells are used mainly for the manufacturing of biologics such as vaccines, therapeutic proteins, antibodies and other cell therapy products. Cell cultures have a highly control of the chemical and physical environment (i.e., pH, temperature, osmotic pressure, oxygen, and carbon dioxide tension), the control of physiological conditions and it reduces costs and animal-use.
Yeast
Yeast production is made possible by industrial fermentation, which must be conducted under aerobic conditions. Once the tank is filled, the yeast is collected by centrifugation. Like most other living organisms, yeast requires three conditions to grow: moisture, food and a hospitable environment. In such an environment, yeast grow rapidly by feeding on sugars.
Biofuel
The demand for energy has grown dramatically in recent years and alternative, sustainable solutions to meet the demand need to be found; biofuel could be the answer. Biofuel works similarly to nonrenewable fossil fuels, but the difference is that it can be grown indefinitely and generally causes less damage to the planet. The two most common types of biofuels in use today are ethanol and biodiesel, which are produced from biomass materials and through fermentation by yeast that breaks down and gets energy from glucose.
Mammarian cell colture
Mammalian cell culture has become a very important technique for the biotechnology industry that, through molecular genetic manipulation, makes it easier to grow cells in a medium free of animal proteins. Mammalian cell culture generally involves maintaining conditions that facilitate cell growth outside of animal tissue in a laboratory culture medium. An advantage of in vitro production of mammalian cells is that they can be expanded in culture to study diseases or used for the production of antibodies, proteins and vaccines.