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Biofuels companies, researchers and manufacturers
The list of some of the companies that do research or manufacture liquid biofuels (alcohols- ethanol, methanol, butanol; biodiesels) from all sources (algae, crops, cellulosic materials and energy crops) are as follows:
Solazyme - A synthetic biology company working in the algal biodiesel, industrial chemical, and specialty ingredient markets.
Poet - A US company that claims to be the World’s largest producer of ethanol
Amyris - Manufactures renewable fuels and chemicals
Sapphire Energy - Produces high-octane gasoline using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and algae
Coskata - Coskata is a biology-based renewable energy company producing fuels and chemicals from biomass, agricultural and municipal wastes etc..
DuPont Danisco - DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE)- Cellulosic ethanol manufacturing company.Iogen - Biotechnology company, involved in the manufacture of industrial enzymes for the pulp and paper, textile and animal feed industry.
Aurora Biofuels - Aurora Biofuels manufactures fuel from optimized algae
BP Biofuels – A division of the energy company, BP, committed to the production of renewable fuels for road transport Joule Biotechnologies - Produces liquid biofuel from Sun
KL Energy - Converting biomass into value added energy and chemical products.
Codexis - creates "super enzymes" that can lead to commercial scale solutions.
Renewable Energy Group - A biodiesel manufacturing company
GEM Biofuels-Supplier of jatropha-based feedstock to biodiesel market.
BioCentric Energy Algae - Manufacturing biofuels from Algae
Simply Green Biofuels -Simply Green Biofuels offers green alternatives to home heating, diesel and marine fueling within the Seacoast and southern Maine
GeoSynFuels -Developed a low cost innovative and proprietary technology to convert cellulosic biomass into advanced biofuels using renewable feedstocks.
Sustainable Power Corp - Wastes to Biofuels conversion
Primafuel - Ethanol and other biofuel manufacturer
Balboa Pacific Corporation - Waste to Energy Conversion company
Verenium - Working to produce cellulosic ethanol from items such as sugarcane bagasse, agricultural waste, and wood products.
Lignol - Undertaking to construct biorefineries for the production of fuel-grade ethanol and biochemicals from Canadian forests and vast supplies of biomass feedstocks.
Vital Renewable Energy focuses on the development of sugar cane based ethanol and electricity generation in Brazil.
Carbon Green Inc. - Recycling waste tires to green energy
Blue Marble Energy - Generates biochemical and bioenergy products from diverse waste biomass feedstocks.
Praj Industries - a global Indian company that offers innovative solutions to significantly add value in bio-ethanol, bio-diesel, brewery plants and process equipment & systems for customers, worldwide.
Neste Oil - An independent top-tier base oil supplier, offering optimized technical solutions to the global lubricant manufacturing industry.
LanzaTech - LanzaTech has developed a proprietary platform for producinglowest-costliquid biofuel in any industrialized geography, at a much larger scale than is currently being envisioned elsewhere.
Algenol Biofuels - Company that claims to produce ethanol from Algae
Genencor - Genencor is a leading industrial biotechnology company that develops and markets innovative enzymes and bio- based products.
Cobalt Biofuels - Cobalt Technologies is a leading developer of innovative technologies that enable the next generation of biofuels.
OriginOIl - developing technology that will transform algae, into a true competitor to petroleum.
Solix - Solix Biofuels Inc. is the leader in production technology used to create energy from algae.
Allard Research and Development - A dynamic, growing company focused primarily on ethanol fuel production systems among other things
Valero Energy Corporation - A Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio. Refines and market petroleum and runs ethanol processing plants.
Catchlight Energy -Producer of biofuels derived from non-food sources.
GlycosBio -Building a new way of making chemicals using biotechnology to produce high-value fuels and chemicals from disadvantaged but sustainable feedstocks or underutilized.
Bioalgene -Headquartered near Seattle in the Pacific Northwest,focusing on the selection cultivation, harvesting, processing, and regeneration of algae for biofuel and other energy needs
EdeniQ- Delivering clean, affordable Cellulosic biofuels
Abengoa Energy - Owns and operates five bioethanol facilities throughout the United States and Europe with a total production capacity of 195 million gallons.
PetroAlgae- A Florida-based leading renewable energy company.
Renewable Energy Companies - List of other companies providing renewable energy solutions such as solar, Wind, Geothermal, hydroelectricity, tidal, and wave.
Cosan - Another Brazilian Company manufacturing ethanol from Sugar based products (e.g. sugar cane)
Diversified Energy -Developed a technology for converting oils derived from any triglyceride feedstock (like agriculture crops, animal fats, algae, energy crops, waste greases, etc.) to high-value biofuels.
Bionavitas - Innovations for efficient growth of Algae for biofuels, neutraceuticals and environmental remediation.
Ensyn -Ensyn is the world leader in the production of bio-oil produced from pyrolysis of renewable feedstocks.