R&D : Advancing Cellulosic Technology

Novel Verenium Microbes are Key To Converting Biomass to Ethanol

Verenium’s technology expertise in the areas of enzymology, microbiology and process engineering provide the skill-sets and foundation needed to successfully pursue an economically viable process for cellulosic ethanol production. Verenium’s ground-breaking technology is based on the metabolic engineering of microorganisms. Verenium has a set of genetically engineered strains of bacteria that are capable of fermenting essentially all of the sugars released from many types of cellulosic biomass into ethanol, meeting the demanding process requirements and levels of productivity not seen with other organisms.