05.14.10
Soy Labs, LLC, Mexico, MO, joined with Missouri state and federal dignitaries recently broke ground on the Missouri Plant Science Center (MPSC). The first of its kind, the center will serve as a biotechnology hub for companies like Soy Labs to perform cutting-edge research and perfect manufacturing processes for ingredients and finished products that are the future of nutraceuticals, functional foods and plant biotechnology industries.
More than three years in the making, MPSC will be a shared-use facility offering companies office space, wet and dry research laboratories and manufacturing equipment to process soybeans and other plant-based material.
The center will allow companies with commercially-viable, plant-sourced products to prove their concepts and develop novel manufacturing methods to bring the products to market. Soy Labs will be the anchor and managing tenant of the 25,000 square-foot facility and will bring in other innovative companies that are the future of biotechnology for the state of Missouri and for the natural products industry.
More than three years in the making, MPSC will be a shared-use facility offering companies office space, wet and dry research laboratories and manufacturing equipment to process soybeans and other plant-based material.
The center will allow companies with commercially-viable, plant-sourced products to prove their concepts and develop novel manufacturing methods to bring the products to market. Soy Labs will be the anchor and managing tenant of the 25,000 square-foot facility and will bring in other innovative companies that are the future of biotechnology for the state of Missouri and for the natural products industry.
