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Amyris And Total Expand Relationship

by Alexander H. Tullo
August 6, 2012 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 90, Issue 32

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This Azul Brazilian Airlines plane recently made a test flight using renewable fuel from Amyris.
Photo of the Embraer E195 jet operated by Azul Brazilian Airlines on a demonstration flight using renewable jet fuel produced from Brazilian sugarcane.
Credit: Amyris
This Azul Brazilian Airlines plane recently made a test flight using renewable fuel from Amyris.

France’s Total is giving stronger backing to Amyris, an Emeryville, Calif.-based firm that is developing a fermentation route to the building block chemical farnesene. Under a new agreement, Total could provide $82 million in funding over three years to Amyris for development of diesel and jet fuel from farnesene. The firms may then form a manufacturing joint venture. Under an earlier agreement, Total, which owns a 21% stake in Amyris, pledged $50 million in funding.

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