Jinan enjoys a beautiful spring with the first clear sky after snow, welcoming distinguished friends and guests from all directions. From March 3rd to 5th, the 14th International Bio-fermentation Products and Technology Equipment Exhibition 2025 was held as scheduled in Jinan. More than 800 domestic and foreign exhibitors and over 45,000 professional visitors gathered in this Spring City. TIANS fully demonstrated its advantages with technology at the core at this exhibition. Focusing on service contents such as synthetic biology industrialization T-EPC full-process services, corn dry separation sugar production technology, intelligent equipment, and full-process automated fermentation technology solutions, it attracted many guests from the bio-fermentation industry to exchange ideas and discuss, seek development opportunities, and create a situation to break through the bottleneck.

Reshaping Sugar Production: A Groundbreaking Innovation in Technology Debuts

Corn is a versatile crop that can be used as feed, food, industrial raw material, and more. In recent years, with technological breakthroughs in fields such as biotechnology and enzyme engineering, deep processing of corn has gradually developed sustainably towards greenization, intellectualization, standardization, diversification, and high value-added. Against this backdrop, TIANS grandly launched the corn dry separation sugar production technology at this year's Fermentation Exhibition. This technology can directly process dried corn kernels through physical separation and bioenzymatic hydrolysis technology, achieving efficient separation of corn endosperm, germ, and hull, as well as sugar production.

TIANS Corn Dry Separation Sugar-Making Technology Makes a Grand Debut

He Lixiong, Vice President of TIANS Group and Chairman of the Synthetic Biology and Dry Sugar-Making Division, elaborated on the technological process and technical characteristics of the corn dry separation sugar-making technology at the new product launch and technical exchange meeting. He stated that compared with the traditional wet corn sugar-making method, this technology eliminates the corn soaking process, avoids the loss of nutrients in corn along with corn steep liquor, better retains the protein in corn, reduces the cost of processed glucose, and increases the value of by-products. In addition, compared with corn wet sugar-making, it can significantly reduce investment and operating costs. The factory building area is 40% less than that of traditional wet sugar-making, and the production and operation costs are reduced by 50%. At the same time, there is no sewage or peculiar smell, making it a model of green and lean production.

Intelligent Equipment: Product Experience Upgraded Again

The two star products, the Intelligent Instant Continuous Sterilizer and the Intelligent Automatic Cleaning Machine, once again appeared at the Jinan Fermentation Exhibition, bringing everyone a more intelligent, worry-free and energy-saving new experience.

The Intelligent Instant Continuous Sterilizer is a sterilization equipment based on the principle of short-time high-temperature sterilization. It makes full use of the latent heat of steam and achieves pure countercurrent heat exchange through a new type of heat exchanger. Its sterility rate is as high as 99.99%, saving more than 70% of steam and 90% of cooling water. It is widely used in industries such as fermentation pharmaceuticals, amino acids, enzyme preparations, wastewater inactivation, and food and beverages. At present, the Intelligent Instant Continuous Sterilizer has been sold to many countries and regions at home and abroad, with a leading market share.

The intelligent automatic cleaning machine is a high-pressure automatic cleaning device widely used for 360° dead-angle-free cleaning inside fermentation tanks and reaction kettles. It has advantages such as high cleaning efficiency, safety and reliability, and avoids many potential safety hazards caused by workers entering the tanks. It is widely used in industries such as biomedicine, biological materials, medical aesthetics, new energy, and natural health products.

Synthesis of All Things: Empowering from End-to-End Processes  

As a cutting-edge technology in the field of biofermentation, synthetic biology is reshaping traditional production models. As a T-EPC full-process service provider for synthetic biology industrialization, TIANS possesses full-cycle construction service capabilities covering process technology, pilot-scale amplification, process simulation and optimization, process package compilation, engineering consulting and design, automation and informatization, intelligent equipment, as well as engineering construction and operation and maintenance. At this exhibition, TIANS showcased many excellent cases for the guests, such as Chuanning Biology, Huaheng Biology, Bluepha, and Yiduoli Biology. A number of process experts also provided on-site customers with end-to-end industrialization implementation plans during the exchanges.

Professional voices, sharing cutting-edge concepts. On March 4th, at the Synthetic Biology Concept Verification Platform and Intelligent Equipment Forum held concurrently with the exhibition, Li Xiangke, Vice President of TIANS Chemical and Pharmaceutical Design Institute, gave a systematic sharing on the theme of "T-EPC Model Empowering the Industrialization of Synthetic Biology Technology".

First, Li Xiangke elaborated on the bottlenecks in the industrialization of synthetic biotechnology, including difficulties and pain points in commercial and technical factors, such as enterprise positioning, market demand, and technical challenges in various stages such as small-scale trial research and development, pilot-scale amplification, and commercial production. Afterwards, he introduced the advantages of TIANS's T-EPC model in the industrialization of new technologies, and emphasized that with process technology and design as the core, the whole-process system integration and optimization can be realized to help the success of one-time trial production. Finally, in terms of synthetic biology manufacturing plants, he gave a systematic explanation around the concepts of safe, intelligent, lean, and green plants, combined with TIANS's intelligent instantaneous continuous sterilizer, automatic cleaning machine, and corn dry separation sugar production technology, which benefited the majority of the audience a lot.

Intelligent Brain: Digital Solution for Fermentation Factories

In the context of the increasingly rapid development of digitalization, the trend of intelligent fermentation has also put forward higher requirements for traditional fermentation factories. As an expert in automation and information technology in the bio-fermentation industry, TIANS showcased its solutions such as full-process automatic control and digital management platform for fermentation factories at this exhibition.

TIANS Digital Solution for the Bio-fermentation Industry

The digital management platform for fermentation plants integrates key data and information such as plant layout, real-time monitoring of each floor, material flow, and batch numbers, and is equipped with video surveillance functions to achieve comprehensive control over plant operations. At the same time, the platform can seamlessly connect with energy management, T-MES systems, and DCS systems, breaking down information silos and enabling data sharing and collaborative work. In addition, with the support of large models, many of TIANS's information-based software have been connected to DeepSeek. Through precise monitoring and intelligent management, it provides strong support for the digital transformation of fermentation enterprises and injects strong impetus into enterprises' digital development and intelligent decision-making.

With technology at its core, we are building a new bio-fermentation business model. As an engineering design group empowering the industrialization of new technologies, TIANS has always been rooted in the bio-fermentation field, establishing an industrial closed loop consisting of process technology, process optimization, engineering design, engineering construction, automation and informatization, intelligent equipment, and other sectors. Relying on numerous industry experts and mature industrialization experience, it has already created a number of high-quality and exemplary projects. In the future, TIANS will work together with numerous bio-fermentation enterprises to explore new technologies, seek new opportunities, and achieve a win-win new future.