HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Although white or industrial biotechnology has been around for a considerable time, it has only recently begun to revolutionize industrial production. Nature’s toolset is being increasingly deployed in processes that help cut production costs such as energy and raw materials, as well as in the effective disposal of products and production waste. These are among the keynote themes to be addressed by experts on 8 October at BIOTECHNICA, Europe’s leading biotech event. The “German White Biotechnology Platform”, which features in the scientific congress European BioPerspectives, will be opened by Dr. Alfred Oberholz, board member of Evonik Industries AG and chairman of DECHEMA (German Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).