ABSTRACT
The production of sugar from sugarcane is a process that offers wide opportunities for diversification through the conversion of its co-products and wastes. Many of these transformations are based on biotechnological processes, which have been extended to the international diversification of this industry. This chapter describes the main technologies implemented to obtain new products through the biotechnological transformation of bagasse, molasses and juices, filter cake, as well as sugar itself. The basic principles of these processes are reviewed from the most important and recent studies reported in the literature.
