The Moguls of Minneapolis pick up an advantaged route to key renewable chemicals. News has filtered out from Cargill that the agricultural giant has acquired OPX Biotechnologies’ proprietary fermentation-based processes and systems. Bottom line, excepting the building, they bought essentially the entire company in an asset purchase. As is the usual practice at Fortress Cargill, terms were […]
OPXBIO styles itself in the “Good Chemistry” business, developing and producing bio-based chemicals that deliver more sustainable value for customers compared to traditional petro-based chemicals. The company’s says that its patented, leading EDGE (Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering) technology “has proven advantages over traditional bioengineering approaches”. Primarily, EDGE enables OPXBIO to more rapidly engineer microbes and […]
This is the official Transformative Technologies 2014 nominee page for OPX Bio, nominated in the “Transformative conversion technology (liquid)” category for its EDGE technology. Voting Rules All voting is exclusively via social media this year. To vote, simply click on the Tweet, Like or Share link in on this page. Each tweet, like or share will […]
Company description: At OPXBIO, we’re in the “Good Chemistry” business, developing and producing bio-based chemicals that deliver more sustainable value for customers compared to traditional petro-based chemicals. Our patented, leading EDGE (Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering) technology has proven advantages over traditional bioengineering approaches. EDGE enables OPXBIO to more rapidly engineer microbes and develop cost-effective bioprocesses. […]
Addressing Building Fermentation Technologies into great companies. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Butamax CEO Paul Beckwith, Iogen CEO Brian Foody, Green Biologics President Joel Stone and OPX Bio CTO David Hogsett will present addresses on ABLC 2014’s opening morning — addressing the topic of Building fermentation technologies into great companies “Three hot Bs in […]
Speciality chems giant opts for the OPX Biotechnologies’ EDGE technology to slash development timelines and costs, and boost ROI. Making biobased work on price and performance. In Germany and Colorado, Evonik and OPX Biotechnologies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop a list of (undisclosed) bio-based specialty chemicals. Evonik is one of the world […]
In Colorado, Bio-based chemicals and fuels producer OPX Biotechnologies has been selected as an Energy Innovation Pioneer at this year’s annual IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston. This year’s Energy Innovation Pioneers were selected based on creativity, plan feasibility, technology scalability and leadership team. The program recognized OPXBIO for developing bio-based processes that can use a […]
In Colorado, OPX Biotechnologies appointed David Hogsett as vice president of research and development and chief technology officer. In the Netherlands, Avantium announced that it has added Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson to its Supervisory Board.
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
Address: 2425 55th Street, Suite 100 Boulder, CO 80301 Year Founded: 2007 Company description: OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) is a Boulder, Colorado-based company using its proprietary, leading EDGE™ (Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering) technology platform to manufacture bio-based chemicals and fuels that deliver more sustainable value to our customers. OPXBIO has successfully developed the pilot-scale process […]
