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Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico della Sicilia - Catania

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Address

Z.I. Blocco Palma I - stradale V Lancia
95121 Catania
(Sicily)

Telephone

+39 095 292390

Fax

+39 095 292730/31

World Wide Web

www.pstsicilia.org

 


Technology transfer

Inclusion in EU project

PON Ricerca 2000 - 2006

Agricultural / food, Eniviroment, Material

  • Various activities as part of the VI. Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of the EU

MED Programme

National and European Network

  • integrated administration of natural materials
  • Coastal protection and technologies in the agricultural food sector

Interreg III A Italy-MaltaIII B Medocc

National and European Network

Interreg III B Archimed

National and European Network

  • Human Resources and Development Planning

Interreg IV C

National and European Network

Activities

BIOLOGICALLY DEGRADABLE TEXTILE CANVASES MADE FROM POLYMERS OF MICROBIAL ORIGIN

By means of the research project, relevant methodological knowledge could be acquired, which proved to be useful in the application of scrap material from the agrar-industry. Among them are: vegetable oils and fatty acids as renewable sources for the microbial conversion into products of economic interest such as polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) for the production of biologically degradable foils for agricultural and the agrar-industry.

Selected microbes as start help (biostarter) on a yeast basis Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production improvement of bakery goods

A microbial starter on the basis of selected yeasts (sccharomyces cerevisiae) for the production of bakery goods, in particular bread, has been patented. By means of the use of specially selected yeasts both the leavening effect of the yeast and also of the shelf life of the end product are enhanced. Extremely satisfactory results were achieved by companies located in the provinces Messina and Catania.

Yeasts for production of sparkling wine and other fermented drinks

PSTSicilia has about 1 000 yeast strains in store in the company's own microorganism bank, of which two strains (saccharomyces cerevisiae and debaryomyces hansenii) were selected for the process. The tests conducted from 2003 in cooperation with a wine producer in the Province Catania resulted in the indigenous spectrum of selected yeasts giving the product a typical characteristic and an aroma, which is clearly above the commercially dry yeast. The yeasts deposited in the German Bank for International Microorganisms (OSMZ) were patented.
Currently a scientific and commercial cooperation agreement with an international company is being negotiated, which is leading in the sphere of production and marketing of oenology products.

Contacts to Germany already exist:

  • Steinbeis Foundation, Stuttgart
  • DSMZ (german gene bank)
  • Animox Gmbxh (Dr Axel Hohling)
  • Bioworld (Mr. Walf Krone)

Contacts to foreign companies are welcomed in the following areas:

We are interested in:

  • The agrar industry (applied biotechnologies)
  • ICT
  • The Environment (agrar-energy: biomass, biodiesel, and bio-ethanol)
  • Cultural treasures (stones and earth, mortar and plastering)
  • Innovative materials (biologically degradable foils)