MICROBIOGEN
2012
Up coming opportunities to hear about Microbiogen's breakthrough in affordable Gen 2 fuel and food MORE
Up coming opportunities to hear about Microbiogen's breakthrough in affordable Gen 2 fuel and food MORE
Providing a solution to the world’s fuel vs food crisis
Sydney-based Microbiogen Pty Ltd has developed technology that can simultaneously convert waste plant biomass into fuel ethanol, high protein feed for our farm animals and fish, as well as a product that can serve as an environmentally friendly coal substitute.
The company specialises in the improvement of yeasts for multi-billion dollar per year industrial applications such baking and first generation ethanol. It has also used its proprietary high throughput breeding and selection technologies to develop brewer’s yeast strains (called Saccharomyces cerevisiae) able to metabolise carbon compounds present in a wide range of waste plant biomass such as stover, switchgrass, bagasse, hardwood and softwood. The uniqueness of Microbiogen’s approach relative to competing technologies, is that it does not use any genetically engineered organisms.
Microbiogen has been working on its “Fuel and Feed” biorefinery concept for 10 years. Click on "Food AND fuel Solution" to see an animation of our biorefinery process