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Genomatica: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Genomatica: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address: 10520 Wateridge Circle
San Diego, CA 92121 Year Founded: 2000 Annual Revenues: 2011:  $4.3 million Company description: Genomatica is a technology leader for the chemical industry.  It delivers new manufacturing processes that enable its partners to produce intermediate and basic chemicals from renewable feedstocks. These chemicals serve as the basis for making substantially all of the […]

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ZeaChem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

ZeaChem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address: 215 Union Blvd., Suite 500, Lakewood, CO 80228 Year Founded: 2002 Company description: ZeaChem is a developer of highly efficient biorefineries for the conversion of cellulosic biomass into economical and sustainable advanced biofuels and bio-based chemicals. Our indirect approach leapfrogs the yield and carbon dioxide (CO2) problems associated with traditional and cellulosic-based processes. ZeaChem’s […]

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Honeywell’s UOP: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Honeywell’s UOP: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Based in: Illinois Business: Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, as well as a joint venture. UOP and Ensyn announced the formation of a new joint venture, dubbed Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis. The joint venture […]

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LanzaTech: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

LanzaTech: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address:          725-C E. Irving Park Road, Roselle, IL. USA 60172 Year Founded:            2005 Company description: LanzaTech has developed a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform that has no impact on food, water security or high biodiversity land use. The proprietary gas-to-liquid platform produces fuels and high value chemicals such as […]

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Enerkem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Enerkem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Enerkem   Address:                           1130 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 1500 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2M8, Canada   Year Founded: 2000   Annual Revenues:           undisclosed – private company   Company description:     Enerkem develops biofuels and chemicals from waste. With its proprietary thermochemical technology, Enerkem converts abundantly available municipal solid waste (mixed textiles, plastics, fibers, wood […]

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Novozymes: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Novozymes: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Company description: Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries we create tomorrow’s industrial biosolutions, improving our customers’ business, and the use of our planet’s resources. With over 700 products used in 130 countries, Novozymes’ bioinnovations improve industrial performance and safeguard the world’s resources by offering superior […]

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LS9: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

LS9: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address: 600 Gateway Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080 Year founded  2005 Company description: LS9, Inc. is a technology leader in the commercial development of a growing portfolio of sustainable products to meet the needs of established and expanding chemical and fuel markets worldwide.  Utilizing a simple, efficient, flexible, cost-effective technology platform, LS9 has created […]

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POET: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

POET: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address: 4615 N. Lewis Ave., Sioux Falls, S.D. 57104 Year founded  1987 Company description: POET, the largest ethanol producer in the world, is a leader in biorefining through its efficient, vertically integrated approach to production. The 23-year-old company produces more than 1.7 billion gallons of ethanol and 10 billion pounds of high-protein animal feed annually […]

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Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Based in: 345 Inverness Dr. South; Bldg. C; Suite 345, Englewood, CO 80112
 Year founded: 2005
 Technology: Gevo has two proprietary technologies that combine to make it possible to retrofit existing ethanol plants to produce isobutanol, a four carbon alcohol which serves as a  hydrocarbon platform molecule.  We have developed a robust industrial scale yeast […]

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Amyris: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Amyris: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address: 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA Year founded  2003 Company description: Amyris is an integrated renewable chemicals and fuels company founded in 2003 and based in Emeryville, CA, with additional operations in Chicago, IL and Campinas, Brazil. Amyris has over 400 employees, with three-quarters of its employees located in the United States. Amyris subsidiaries include […]

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