METabolic EXplorer on way to developing bio-process for textiles
05 Dec '08
4 min read
About METabolic EXplorer:
METabolic EXplorer is a biological chemistry company which was created in 1999. The company's goal is to assist industrial manufacturing businesses to change the way they produce many everyday goods through novel production methods that do not rely on increasingly scarce oil-based petrochemical feedstocks.
METabolic EXplorer unique technical expertise provides industrial producers with attractive alternatives to today's expensive petrochemical processes by enabling them to use a range of renewable and sustainable raw materials.
METabolic EXplorer is able to optimize the production yield of commercially important chemical intermediates from non-pathogenic bacteria by leveraging on the proven principle of industrial fermentation.
These chemical intermediates are incorporated into the production of chemical compounds used in a wide range of everyday products - paints, solvents, adhesives, textile fibres, surgical thread and animal feed.
METabolic EXplorer is currently focusing its alternative biological solution (implemented via the development of its renewable fermentation-based bioprocesses) on the production of 5 products that have a combined end market value estimated at $14 billion annually.
The Company plans to use its unique technology for the production of these 5 products to bring them to market via non-exclusive industrial alliances and joint-ventures with chemical companies and renewable feedstock providers worldwide. METabolic EXplorer is based in Clermont-Ferrand, France