Founded in 2013, VDK focuses on the core of synthetic biology and has established itself as a platform enterprise with comprehensive full-chain in this industrialization track.
VDK maintains full, independent control over its operations — from enzyme discovery and optimization →metabolic pathway engineering→strain development→pilot-scale fermentation and separation → large-scale industrial production → final product sales.
VDK manufactured all products by utilizing fully self-funded fixed assets and focuses on four major areas — dietary supplements, natural pigments, flavorings and enzyme preparations.
Leveraging its independently developed microbial cell factory technology, VDK is a global pioneer in the large-scale biomanufacturing of natural products including 5-HTP, sclareol glycol, and astaxanthin oleoresin. Furthermore, with a portfolio of ten industrialized products, VDK leads the industry in efficiency for technology transfer and industrialization.
After more than ten years of in-depth development, the company has built a world-leading full-chain R&D platform for synthetic biology and a closed-loop system covering core links such as gene editing and enzyme engineering. The 4,200m² high-standard laboratory is equipped with cutting-edge equipment, and the core R&D team of more than 80 doctors and masters has both technical accumulation and industrialization experience, promoting the efficient iteration of biosynthetic technology. It has invested over 20 million RMB to build an independent biological data large model. The efficiency and accuracy of AI-empowered R&D solutions are on par with that of human doctors, realizing the innovation of the R&D model of “wet-dry experiments + intelligent algorithms”.
The company has built a large-scale production system with a fermentation capacity of 1,800 cubic meters, equipped with internationally advanced extraction, separation and purification equipment, forming a full-process industrial production line to ensure flexible supply of high output and stable delivery of multiple products. At the same time, it has built a comprehensive quality control system, equipped with a full set of precision testing equipment such as high-performance liquid chromatography, and constructed a full-chain quality control process from raw material entry to finished product delivery, ensuring that the purity, activity and stability of products meet the industry-leading standards.
Relying on core innovation capabilities, large-scale production capacity and strict quality control, the company has been awarded the title of National High-Tech Enterprise and National “Specialized, Refined, Differential and Innovative” Little Giant Enterprise, and has taken the lead in undertaking the key R&D plan of Hebei Province during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. It has accumulatively obtained 34 national invention patent authorizations (17 under review) and completed 18 trademark registrations (24 under review), building a comprehensive intellectual property protection system to build a solid barrier for technological innovation and industrialization expansion.
With the mission of “Empowering Natural Product Manufacturing with Technology”, VDK® provides global customers with high-purity green bio-based products through underlying technology breakthroughs, large-scale production upgrades and full-chain quality control, and is committed to becoming a global leader and value creator in the field of synthetic biology.