Active in the SBIR arena since soon after the firm was founded, ZymoChem, Inc. is structured around developing next-generation microbes with efficient biosynthetic pathways for making a variety of industrials chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Unlike existing microbial processes, firm's technology is designed to eliminate the loss of the sugar's carbon as CO2 while producing the target chemicals. The firm's patented carbon conservation technology increases theoretical yields as much as 50%, resulting in breakthrough economics compared to state-of-the-art technologies for the biological production of chemicals. The improved mass efficiency of fermentations running on the companys C2 microbes, coupled with its proven scalability, leads to a more cost-competitive process compared to standard biomanufacturing and petroleum-based manufacturing processes. Together, these advantages create an opportunity to deploy biomanufacturing for many chemicals and materials widely used at the commercial level namely without any added costs which will foster the chemical industrys transition toward decarbonization and circularity. ZymoChem is currently working on its C2 Microbes to utilize biomass-derived feedstocks in conjunction with renewable electricity and C1-based feedstocks. The firm received its competitive awards through ARPA-Es Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSynBio) program - the latter working to develop advanced synthetic biology tools to engineer novel biomass conversion platforms and systems that are more efficient and produce less emissions than current fermentation processes widely used in biorefining. ABOUT . For additional information about ZymoChem, Inc., please visit www.zymochem.com.
