Renewable chemicals company BioAmber is to partner with Cargill to develop a new microbe for producing succinic acid from bio feedstocks.
Vice President and Director of Cargill’s Biotechnology Development Center, Jack Staloch:
Succinic acid has a variety of applications; ranging from use in flavorings, as a plasticizer to chemical intermediates to name a few. Back in early 2010 BioAmber commissioned the world’s first renewable succinic acid plant with an annual production output of 2,000 tons of succinic acid made from glucose sourced from wheat. Technology BioAmber will use under license from Cargill will allow lignocellulosic material to be used as feedstock for the synthesis of succinic acid, and once the new microbe is developed it will be used across the companies’ succinic acid plants. BioAmber’s process generally results in a product purer than succinic acid produced from petrochemicals. Bioamber plans to build more large plants around the world and is currently in discussions with various partners to make this happen.
Vice President and Director of Cargill’s Biotechnology Development Center, Jack Staloch:
“Our technology has been proven in large scale commercial operations and we think that BioAmber is an ideal partner to commercialize our technology in the field of renewable succinic acid. When our technology is ready for commercialization, we anticipate that BioAmber will have plants operating that our technology can be dropped into, generating immediate revenues.”
Succinic acid has a variety of applications; ranging from use in flavorings, as a plasticizer to chemical intermediates to name a few. Back in early 2010 BioAmber commissioned the world’s first renewable succinic acid plant with an annual production output of 2,000 tons of succinic acid made from glucose sourced from wheat. Technology BioAmber will use under license from Cargill will allow lignocellulosic material to be used as feedstock for the synthesis of succinic acid, and once the new microbe is developed it will be used across the companies’ succinic acid plants. BioAmber’s process generally results in a product purer than succinic acid produced from petrochemicals. Bioamber plans to build more large plants around the world and is currently in discussions with various partners to make this happen.
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