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Amyris Opens Brazil Facility

by Marc S. Reisch
July 6, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 27

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Amyris' renewables demonstration facility.
Credit: Amyris
Amyris' renewables demonstration facility.

Amyris Biotechnologies has opened a renewable-products demonstration facility in Brazil. Located in Campinas, the facility will help validate the firm’s biotech processes for the conversion of sugarcane into a range of renewable fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The six-year-old firm counts among its investors leading “cleantech” venture capital firms such as Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

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