A biorefinery designed for the feedstock India actually has.
Most biorefineries are engineered for a single, clean, consistent input. Indian agricultural residue is none of those things. The platform is built around that fact rather than in spite of it — as a physical plant we are building and operating, not a piece of software.
Two paradoxes sink conventional plants.
The density paradox. Biomass is bulky and low in value per tonne. Trucking it far enough to feed a large centralised plant consumes the margin the plant exists to capture.
The composition paradox. The same crop varies by soil, season and harvest timing — and different crops vary enormously. A process tuned to one composition degrades when the input shifts.
The conventional answer is scale: build bigger, buy cleaner feedstock, standardise the input. In India, that answer fails economically before it fails technically.
Four stages, one continuous line.
One input stream, one shared processing core, and a deliberate fork into two commercial products — the architecture in full, then each stage explained below.
Multi-feedstock intake
Corn cob, sugarcane bagasse and cereal straws are accepted wet and mixed. Eliminating the drying step removes what is typically the single most energy-intensive stage in biomass processing, and lets a plant follow the harvest calendar instead of a single crop.
Continuous selective fractionation
A proprietary continuous conditioning stage selectively liberates the functional hemicellulose fraction — without the harsh mineral acids, organic solvents or heavy effluent treatment that drive capital cost, corrosion and environmental burden in conventional routes.
Precision directed biocatalysis
Targeted enzymatic cascades cleave the released fraction to a specified chain length, while deliberately preserving the structural integrity of the remaining fibre backbone. The residue is not a waste stream to be disposed of — it is the second product.
BioOS control layer
Proprietary, built in-house: BioOS is the operating system governing every stage of the plant, from feedstock intake through to confirming the composition of the finished product. It is not a digital twin that merely observes — it is a real-time control system that acts, answering a change in feedstock composition with process parameters rather than re-engineering the hardware. Every run adds to a growing recipe library for converting variable biomass into consistent output.
The same layer tracks every batch end to end, attaching a certification-ready record of its energy footprint, water footprint, and full supply-chain traceability to every product that leaves the line — a resolution of verifiable data the prebiotics industry has not offered before.
Fully indigenous. Fully owned.
Every process, every piece of equipment, and every person on the team was developed and built in India — zero imported technology, zero imported equipment, zero imported process know-how, and zero imported personnel. All core intellectual property is owned outright by BioVikas, with no external licensing encumbrances.
The prebiotic doesn't have to carry the plant.
A cob is not one material. It is three polymers bound together, and each leaves the process separately. Only one of them needs to be high-value.
This is the structural reason the economics work at small scale. The cellulose and lignin streams are sized and priced to cover the facility's operating cost, which means the prebiotic is not carrying fixed overhead. It can be priced to win a formulator's business rather than priced to keep a plant alive — and it is not exposed to a single commodity price the way a one-product biorefinery is.
Fractions are literature-typical for corn cob and vary by feedstock, variety and season. See the biomass composition database for the full range.
Replacing imported additives.
The cellulose and lignin fractions become a high-volume industrial material that substitutes for additives India currently imports. Our initial focus is the packaging sector.
Recycled packaging & corrugated board
A domestically produced, bio-based performance additive for recycled corrugated board — a high-volume, thin-margin industry that today depends on an imported input, and where fibre quality falls with each recycling cycle. It is a market where a domestic cost advantage compounds directly into competitiveness.
Further industrial applications are in development and will be disclosed as they are validated and protected.
Pre-validation, and we say so. Unlike XOS, which is a well-characterised commodity with established specifications, an industrial material has to be proven in each application. We are seeking packaging partners to run those trials with us — early partners shape the specification around their own process rather than inheriting someone else's.
Validated with India's research infrastructure.
Rather than carrying the overhead of a large internal research division, the platform is developed alongside established national institutions — hardware residency, analytical quality control and regulatory support through a leading Indian food research institute, and biocatalyst development with a leading national biotechnology research institute.
This keeps capital directed at process IP and physical assets rather than duplicating laboratory infrastructure that already exists at world standard.
Evaluating bio-based inputs?
Technical specifications, performance data and sample availability are shared directly with qualified partners and investors.