CropDesign applies innovative technologies to develop plants that can be used as biofactories for the production of value-added compounds, also known as 'molecular farming'. Plants offer unique advantages for safe and economical production of new biotech-based proteins, fine chemical and drugs.

Biofactories require testing many gene constructs at varying expression levels, in varied combinations and in diverse plant tissues. CropDesign's competencies in high-throughput gene cloning, plant transformation, plant handling, plant evaluation, as well as its proprietary technologies for high-level gene expression, remove major bottlenecks in optimizing the process of molecular farming.

CropDesign has a collaboration in the area of molecular farming with the global company Henkel AG.