Premium Rental Spaces for Food Innovation

Planet B.io believes in the circular economy, and therefore has renovated a DSM-Firmenich building instead of demolishing it.

The Kluyver Center, formerly the Food Innovation Center of DSM-Firmenich, provides fully food-grade laboratories ideal for food application testing and product development.But also not-food related companies are welcome in the building.

Rent your own dedicated space and gain access to specialized facilities, including:

• Tasting Room: Conduct sensory research with professional tasting panels under controlled lighting conditions.
• Bakery: Develop and test bread, cakes, and cookies with enhanced texture, rising properties, shelf-life, and nutritional benefits.
• Cheese Lab: From Gouda to Mozzarella – refine starter cultures, optimize coagulants, and study fermentation, aging, and melting behavior.
• Kitchens: Experiment with and refine food concepts in a professional cooking environment, perfect for testing new recipes and ingredient applications.

The ML1 labs on the first floor vary in size, ranging from approx. 15 m² to 300 m² (see the floorplan). All labs are equipped with basic lab furniture, fumehoods, and climate control.

The offices on the ground floor approx. 400 m² and on the first floor 100 m², 230 m² and 500 m² can be divided in smaller units. Tenants have the option to customize the space according to their preferences.

The Kluyver Center is not just a lab – it is an food application hub where companies can demonstrate innovations directly to customers, investors, and partners. Their flexible research spaces allow you to create realistic testing environments, ensuring that your product is market-ready.

As the exclusive partner of the ASR Dutch Science Park Fund, Planet B.io is dedicated to expanding the campus ecosystem. Their tenants range from startups to established biotech companies, all working towards sustainable food and ingredient innovation.

By renting space at the Kluyver Center, you become part of Planet B.io’s dynamic biotech ecosystem at Biotech Campus Delft. Benefit from collaboration opportunities, access to world-class infrastructure, and connections to a vast network of public and private organizations supporting biotech innovation. Planet B.io focuses on growing companies.

Building on the rich campus history, biotech expertise is largely available at Biotech Campus Delft, that means you can reach out to the Planet B.io team if you are seeking technical advice in, amongst others:

• Screening and strain development
• Bioprocess development (including scaling-up/down, modelling and process design)
• Biochemistry, enzymology and microbiology
• Food safety and regulations
• Food application

On top of connecting you to the right expertise, possibilities for the following activities can be explored:

• Analysis of samples (routine and advanced analysis)
• Outsourcing biotech Research & Development work
• Use of pilot manufacturing facilities (at Plant One Delft)
• Building your own demo/pilot or industrial facilities on site

Finally, they can always connect you to people or expertise available at one of their five founding partners; DSM, the Delft University of Technology, the municipality of Delft, the province of South Holland, and InnovationQuarter.

Over 1200 people work on site developing, scaling up and commercializing bio-based innovations. Here, they work closely with partners, drawing on the global skills and knowledge concentrated in this world-leading center of expertise. Together, they are fostering open innovation in the emerging biotech field, while delivering the resources and competences stakeholders, governments and startups need to innovate and grow.

Planet B.io focuses on growing companies. If your company requires business support in any of the below areas, they can direct you to organisations Planet B.io has contact with:

• Legal support
• HR support and talent
• Facilities support
• Financial support
• Funding support
• PR & Communications
• Patent strategy and application

Planet B.io is situated in the middle of the Biotech Campus Delft. This industrial area of 40 hectares, allowing all factories on the campus to produce safely.