RISE Research Institutes of Sweden is Sweden’s state-owned research institute and innovation partner, working to support sustainable growth, competitiveness, and societal transformation. With over 3,000 employees and a broad infrastructure portfolio, RISE bridges academia, industry, and the public sector, offering applied research, testbeds, and demonstration facilities across multiple domains including bioeconomy, materials, digitalization, and energy. RISE Processum AB (Coordinator organization of LIGNOFUN), a subsidiary of RISE, is located in Örnsköldsvik at the heart of Sweden’s biorefinery region. Processum operates as an innovation hub with expertise in biotechnology, green chemistry, process development, and scale-up, providing infrastructure that spans from high-throughput strain development and laboratory-scale systems to pilot- and demo-scale bioreactors, fermentation, and downstream processing. This unique environment allows for seamless progression from concept to industrially relevant technology readiness levels (TRLs).