WACKER Presents Innovation Award for Novel Manufacturing Process for Cysteine
Munich, July 18, 2022 – WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, has conferred the 2022 Alexander Wacker Innovation Award on an in-house Spanish-German team for developing and launching a novel and far more efficient fermentation process for producing L-cysteine. The team, consisting of Johanna Koch, Annemarie Reutter-Maier, Rupert Pfaller, and Mario Arcos Rodriguez, managed to intensify the natural fermentation power of the E. coli bacteria strains used in the process and to set new standards for glucose conversion and productivity. The com-pany presented the €10,000 award at its Innovation