The chemical industry is both a diversified and very complex industry. The entire chemical industry mainly includes industrial sectors, academic institutions and various national and local laboratories. These three components all carry out basic research, applied research and development to varying degrees. Different companies, organizations and institutions work differently according to their different ideas and purposes. The industrial sector conducts more research and development, while the academic sector focuses on basic research. Sometimes the industrial sector can conduct its own basic research. And universities and government laboratories often carry out competitive research and development or explore industrial applications.

The diversity of chemical companies strengthens the economy and security of the country. According to the American Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), the US chemical industry has about 1 million employees, produces 70,000 products, and has an output value of 419 billion US dollars. It is one of the three largest export industries in the United States, strengthening the country and competitiveness. The above results have not yet included the pharmaceutical industry, which is a chemical application in many respects. Fine chemicals, like general chemicals, require similar research and require more biocatalytic and biochemical agents.

Environmental issues are of the utmost importance in the chemical industry. Reducing environmental pollution is a matter of great concern to everyone. Therefore, we must develop a new "green chemistry" to make chemistry friendly to the environment, reduce waste generation, reduce energy use, and use renewable resources. Therefore, the main goal of chemical industry research is to develop processes and products that reduce waste, CO2 emissions and energy use. The chemical industry and its enterprises must consider sustainable fossil-based or biological regeneration resources.

Chemical biotechnology is the rapid application of biotechnology to chemical production. It is closely related to green chemistry and uses renewable raw materials. Biotechnology, in other applications, can afford new products, new manufacturing methods, and improved production economics, reducing energy consumption and reducing the environmental impact.

Chemical biotechnology has already had a huge impact on the structure of the chemical industry, with companies pursuing acquisitions, investments and restructuring around different biotech innovations. Biotechnology is very common in the food industry, such as the use of enzymes for starch, beverage production, and meat preservation, which will have a greater impact on the food industry in the future. There are uncertainties in biotechnology in the genetic engineering of recombinant foods and crops. Most of these uncertainties in the United States have been proven by facts and information that is not harmful to food safety and agriculture. Biotechnology in pharmaceutical process applications can be assured, but policies on biomaterials, fabrics and similar products have not yet been introduced, which is currently highly desirable.

Biocatalyst development background:

The chemical industry is a multi-sector industry that differs greatly from the manufacturing of individual industries such as aluminum and glass. The chemical industry includes many small companies that produce only a small number of products and a large number of large multinational companies that produce tens of thousands of products and a variety of processes and intermediate products. Chemical companies are often the link between suppliers, users, intermediate production, and various specialized suppliers.

In the future development of the chemical industry, the definition of the chemical industry is often encountered: the chemical industry package does not include the petrochemical industry; whether the agricultural-derived chemicals belong to the chemical industry; the pharmaceutical industry is actually fine chemicals, but the nature of the drug market and the huge Financial conditions often cause some analysts to remove it from fine chemical manufacturing.

The definitions and connotations of “chemical research”, “biotechnology” and “chemical-based industry” and even “chemical industry” are topics of debate.

The industry will revolutionize in the next 20 years. This report points to the future impact of biotechnology and bioprocessing, and a new industry will emerge.

Future biotechnology development:

From the breakthrough of social science to the formation of mature processes to industrial applications, after long-term research and development, first small-scale applications and then team-scale production. Biotechnology has had a few applications since 1974. In the 1980s, the health industry, especially pharmaceuticals, discovered its value and began to expand. There are now several drugs produced using biotechnology. Bulk edible chemicals such as ethanol, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid and amino acids have been produced using bacteria or enzymes, and there may be some other chemicals that can be put into production. Biotechnology aims are still driven by many powerful social and financial impacts:

In 1999, the biotechnology industry had sales of US$13.4 billion and an output value of US$18.6 billion.

There are more than 1,280 biotechnology companies in the United States;

The industry has a $97 billion investment market, employs 153,000 high-paying workers, and research and development costs are $9 billion;

More than 90 biotech drugs and vaccines have been made, saving more than 200 million people worldwide;

Biotechnology is responsible for conducting hundreds of medical clinical trials;

Biotechnology improves nutrients for many good products such as corn, soybeans, tomatoes, carrots and peppers;

Biotechnology effectively processes waste;

DNA identification is a biotechnological process that greatly improves the investigation of crime.

Chemical research is the incubator of chemical companies' technology, driving the creation, development, application and transformation of new technologies into the core of the chemical industry. These achievements are closely integrated with basic research in biotechnology, including bulk chemicals: soaps, detergents to textiles and synthetic fibers, and promote green chemistry driven by energy and environmental issues. When energy and environmental factors are increasingly emphasized, it is difficult for any industrial sector to be affected, from desulfurization of fuels to biodegradation of waste, from steel production to refining of minerals. In recent years, many international authoritative journals such as Biotechnology Trends and Biotechnology Progress have published articles proposing biotechnology-based chemistry to replace traditional synthetic chemistry, such as “plant factories” and various variations with excellent catalytic properties. Enzymes, etc. Nowadays, genetic engineering terms have been replaced by metabolic engineering, and functional genomics has replaced genomics. In health products, chirality is particularly important. Although the chiral resolution of the enzyme is not new, it is very important in the application of new biocatalysts.