Green Biotech Industries
This organization has many focuses. The most important focuses it has are improving chemicals in every day products, saving energy, lowering cost, and decreasing pollution from manufacturing. This organization congratulated two companies called Genomatica Inc. and BioAmber Inc for having great impacts on Green Biotechnology. Genomatica was known for the production of basic chemicals from renewable feedstocks at lower cost, finding a way to reduce the use of energy by 60 %, and decreasing green house gases by 70%.They are also known for conserving the environment and instead of using crude oil or natural gas hydrocarbons when they manufacture chemicals they use sustainable’ ingredients such as conventional sugars, cellulosic biomass, and syngas. On the other hand BioAmber produces biobased succinic acid. This type of acid is used in making secondary chemicals used in agricultural industries. This industry is proved to "go green" because in their process they use 60% less energy, cost 40 % less, and offers a smaller carbon footprint than a fossil fuel succinic acid. They also produce their succinic acids from nontoxic solvents.
The focus for this biotechnology industry is four main points which are : improving efficiency, the substitution of fossil fuels, substitution of oil-based materials and a closed loop system with the potential to eliminate waste. One section in which they try to improve is improve efficiency. The way they would improve efficiency is by using material that use less energy such as enzymes that use less energy, less waste compared to other traditional manufacturing systems.
Onyx Is Black, but This Biotech Envisions Green
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