Product recovery from novel fermentation processes for bio-manufacturing high-value chemicals from renewable feedstocks

Lygos is developing novel bio-manufacturing processes to valuable chemicals. Our targeted chemicals have existing, large markets of & gt;$250M per year. Current petroleum-based production of these chemicals has a number of pitfalls. Current chemical manufacturing requires petroleum feedstocks, utilize environmentally damaging processes, achieve low-yields, and have high production costs. In contrast, Lygos & #39; process converts domestic, renewable, agricultural sugar-residues, including corn, corn-stover, woody-biomass, and other energy crops into chemicals using fermentation; our process is high-yielding, is performed at ambient temperatures, and could decrease production costs 5-10 fold. While our technology holds great promise, there are challenges required for delivering a complete process to the market place. Ultimately, customers that may use our chemicals will demand stable supplies of product as that derived from petroleum and at the same or better costs. Development of our bio-manufacturing process could expand the market to & gt;$10B per year.The objective of our Phase II SBIR is to begin integrating Lygos & #39; product into existing customers & #39; supply chains.