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18.10.11
GBL and Songyuan Laihe Chemical Company (Laihe) enter into a Technology Collaboration Agreement
GBL and Laihe Chemical Co. a company focused on producing bio-fuels and bio-chemicals from non-food bio-mass resources have entered into a collaborative development and licensing agreement in China . Under the terms of the agreement GBL and Laihe will collaborate to improve the economics of Laihe’s biobutanol plant by optimising GBLs fermentation technology using sugars derived using Laihe cellulosic pre-treatment process. It is anticipated that the optimised process will be in pilot trials before the end of 2011 and will be in full commercial production in 2012
Sean Sutcliffe, Chief Executive of Green Biologics, said
“We are delighted to be working with Laihe, who have developed and built the world’s first large commercial scale integrated pretreatment and hydrolysis unit for waste feedstocks from corn processing with butanol production. Green Biologics has developed world leading fermentation technology for the production of butanol from cellulosic feedstocks and we welcome the opportunity to validate our technology at commercial scale as well as the recognition of our leading position from being selected as exclusive international partner by Laihe. We look forward to enabling profitable and growing production at Laihe’s facility using Green Biologics’ technology.”