About Us
General
Biomass Company is an Illinois corporation currently developing glycosyl
hydrolases, engineered industrial enzymes which break down sugar
polymers. General Biomass cellulase enzymes convert non-food biomass to glucose
for production of cellulosic
ethanol, butanol, advanced biofuels and bioplastics. Cellulase enzymes are
the key to producing very large amounts of biomass sugars, the core feedstocks
for green diesel, biojetfuel and renewable gasoline. The total world market for
biofuels will be $76 billion in 2010 and will rise to $247 billion in 2020.
General Biomass technology enables production of a wide variety of enzymes for
biofuels, medical and industrial applications.
Please contact us at dgibbs@generalbiomass.com.
We also offer consulting
services in the areas of biomass processing and cellulosic ethanol
production. We are proud to be a member of the Illinois Biotechnology Industry
Organization (iBIO), and the American Coalition for
Ethanol.
Sugar for biofuels and bioplastics
All industrial
fermentations run on sugar. Their energy and chemical building blocks
come from sugars, today from cane sugar (sucrose) in Brazil, or from
corn sugar (glucose) in the United States. This presents a problem for
the growth of biofuels in the U.S. and Canada, since little sugar cane
is grown in North America, and corn can produce only about 13 billion
gallons of ethanol at the maximum. We need to produce at least 60
billion gallons of advanced biofuels in the U.S., and therefore
need large quantities of biosugars from biomass. We also need
to begin replacing petroleum-based plastics with renewable
bioplastics made from lactic acid produced by fermentation of
nonfood sugars derived from urban waste paper, beetle-killed pine,
sustainable forests, and other energy crops.
The solution for
continued biofuels and bioplastics growth is to make large quantities
of biosugars from nonfood biomass, using glycosyl hydrolase enzymes and
technology such as those developed by General Biomass.
General Biomass Company
2906 Central Street, #134
Evanston, IL 60201
U.S.A.
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