For the processes and products of other manufacturing industries, see adhesive; clothing and footwear industry; dye; explosive; floor covering; forestry; chemical industry; man-made fibre; surface coating; papermaking; soap and detergent; textile.
One of the important aspects of industrial biotechnology is the wide application of enzymes in various industrial products and processes, such as chemical, detergent, textile, food, animal-feed, leather, and pulp and paper industries, enabling the development of sustainable products and processes.
This development allowed the introduction of enzymes into true industrial products and processes, for example, within the detergent, textile, and starch industries.
Biocatalysts such as enzymes and whole microbial cells are increasingly being utilized for both environmental and economical reasons in a number of industries including agro-food, animal feed, detergent, textile, and specialty chemical industry.
The enzymes that microorganisms, and fungi in particular, use to hydrolyze polysaccharides have been used extensively in industrial applications including feed, food, beverages, detergent, textile and pulp and paper.
Lignocellulosic biomass, the most abundant renewable carbon resources in the biosphere, has exhibited valuable industrial applications in many fields, such as pulp and paper, food processing, detergent, textile, synthetic biology, organic synthesis, pharmaceuticals and bioenergy production [ 1, 2].
It is an important industrial polymer with a wide range of applications in flocculation, drug reduction, detergents, textiles, papers, foods, and drugs [11].
Native and recombinant enzymes are tools in major sectors of the biopharmaceutical, agricultural, and chemical industries, acting in very diverse areas of medicine, diagnostics, food, feed, detergents, textiles, leather, paper, pulp, and plastics.
Improved catalytic properties of the engineered enzyme imply good potentials for starch slurry in the majority of industrial production of detergents, textiles, food, paper, and bioethanol.
In present day they have found applications in all the industrial processes such as in food, detergents, textiles, pharmaceutical, paper and fine chemical industries for the hydrolysis of starch [ 3– 5].
