You don't know what you don't know—until you meet sweet sorghum, a crop that has never been industrialized.
For over a century, its industrial chain never existed. We founded the Jiulan Bio Mill Institute in August 2021 to change that.
We are an interdisciplinary team, and our work goes far beyond syrup. Today, we are building an industrial ecosystem for sweet sorghum from the ground up. Within this new value chain, we focus on the industrial side—processing technology, critical equipment definition, and line integration. The agricultural and market sides are enabled through close collaboration with specialized partners.
On the leaf protein side, we are going back to fundamentals—starting with basic research to explore the path to industrialization.
Because building this massive sweet sorghum syrup chain requires tools that don't exist on the market, we are developing a dedicated equipment engineering chain (R&D and collaborative manufacturing) to support it.
So we are more than a biotech company. We are a technology and engineering company that defines and develops critical equipment from first principles.
All of this builds on R&D and engineering know-how accumulated since 2009.
We are cross-disciplinary engineers—our backgrounds span naval architecture, environmental engineering, mechanics and CAE, starch chemistry, mechanical engineering, and logistics. We have long been curious about the blank spots in modern industrial systems.
In sweet sorghum syrup, we have developed prototypes of key equipment (e.g., a harvester prototype) and are now advancing a demonstration plant to validate the industrial pathway.
In leaf protein, we are building a Δt‑enabled test platform to explore release mechanisms and pursue a replicable industrial pathway.
At the edges of modern industry, where no legacy infrastructure exists, we have no choice but to build the entire value chain from the ground up.
Our innovation stems from a core recognition—the current system cannot support the industrialisation of sweet sorghum syrup, nor can it describe the release mechanism of leaf protein.
Our mission is to build a new industrial foundation for plant‑based sugars and leaf protein—a replicable, scalable pathway to industrialisation.
As a technology startup operating in industrial blind spots, we bear the following responsibilities:
To science: All conclusions must be verifiable. All failures must be recordable.
To partners: All commitments must be deliverable. All pathways must be scalable.
To the planet: All engineering must point to fossil substitution and sustainable supply chains.
Every step is a lever.