Part of British American Tobacco plc, Kentucky BioProcessing LLC is a company headquartered in Owensboro, KY, that produces plant-made proteins. On January 02, 2014 Reynolds American, Inc., part of British American Tobacco plc since July 2017, acquired Kentucky BioProcessing LLC from Owensboro Health, Inc.\nThe company says this about itself: KBP is located in Owensboro, Ky., where it began operations in 2006. In January 2014, KBP was acquired by and became an independently operated, wholly-owned subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. (RAI), a British American Tobacco Group Company. KBP continues to house its large, multilevel indoor plant-growth space, as well as its research and production laboratories, clean rooms and manufacturing operations in Owensboro. KBP made headlines in 2014 for its role developing the Ebola treatment, ZMapp�� in collaboration with California-based company Mapp BioPharmaceutical and the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).