Category: 5-Minute Guide

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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Solazyme: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Solazyme: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 15, 2012 |

Address: 225 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Year founded 2003 Company description: Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s renewable products can replace or enhance oils derived from the world’s three existing sources – […]

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