A leading producer of recombinant proteins using tobacco plants. Building a better tomorrow.

Kentucky BioProcessing, Inc. (KBP), a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. and a member of the British American Tobacco Group, is a world leader in using tobacco plants to express, extract and purify proteins for use as vaccines and other pharmaceuticals.

Who We Are

Experts in expressing, extracting and purifying animal-free proteins using a plant of the Nicotiana (tobacco) species.

What We Do

Develop and execute processes to transform tobacco plants into “biomanufacturing plants” that efficiently produce proteins they would not otherwise produce.

Our Processes

We use licensed and proprietary technologies to temporarily encode tobacco plants with the genetic instructions to produce specific target proteins.

Our Partners

We collaborate with a variety of commercial and governmental organizations to help develop biopharmaceuticals and explore new uses for the tobacco plant and its components.