From start-up to grown-up
c-LEcta is celebrating 20 years!
In 2004, it all started with a promising, patented technology to screen enzymes. The technology made it much easier to identify natural enzymes, and then specifically modify them for usage in industrial applications. It was developed in a research project at the University of Leipzig with the participation of our company founder Marc Struhalla.
Development in many ways!
20 for 20 - What does c-LEcta mean to you?
Listen to the voices of our team!
News and Stories: Insights into c-LEcta
We open our treasure chest
Where our enzymes come from
In our enzyme engineering technology, everything starts with identifying the right enzyme. Nature offers an almost inexhaustible source for identifying new enzymes. In one gram of soil there can be billions of bacteria, thousands of different microorganisms, all of which have very different properties.
Moving forward
2025: Opening our new headquarters
In September 2021, we took the first step in making our new headquarters a reality by signing the leasing agreement with OFB Projektentwicklung GmbH, which is building a new biotechnology campus under the name of BioSquare on the old Leipzig trade fair grounds. c-LEcta will occupy an entire building section amounting to 10,500 square meters.
Enzyme development
20 years of continuous progress
Twenty years ago, c-LEcta started with a patented screening technology developed at the University of Leipzig, which enabled an efficient screening of large enzyme libraries at unrivalled speed. Even then, the idea of not only developing enzymes, but also producing their own enzyme products, was obvious. The most important building blocks of today’s technology platform ENESYZ were present from the beginning.