Industrial biotechnology, also known as white biotechnology, is considered to be a revolutionary biotechnology field beside red and green biotechnology. After red (medicine) and green (agriculture), white biotechnology is now gaining momentum. With numerous applications e.g. in biocatalysis and fermentation technology, white biotech companies are able to produce – often from biomass out of agricultural products - biobased chemicals (like vitamins, amino acids or enzymes for textile finishing and the detergent industry), biomaterials (like biodegradable plastics for packaging or medical applications) and biofuels. Biotechnological syntheses are supposed to revolutionize many classical chemical synthetic routes for established chemicals and will outpace those by higher cost-efficiency, saving feedstock and energy resources and offering valuable benefits to the environment by lower or even no greenhouse gas emissions.