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Cobalt Advances Two Biobased Chemicals
by Melody M. Bomgardner
April 22, 2013
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 91, Issue 16
Cobalt Technologies, a maker of sugar-derived chemicals, will work with two unidentified Asian chemical producers to develop a biomass-to-butadiene process and build a commercial-scale facility in Asia. The partners have invested in Cobalt. California-based Cobalt also announced it has successfully fermented 1-butanol at the 100,000-L scale. The firm expects its butadiene to be cost competitive with that made from petroleum; it claims its biobased 1-butanol can be made at a 40% cost advantage to petroleum-based sources.
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