Proterro, Inc.
Who: | Â | Kef Kasdin, CEO, Proterro, Inc. |
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What: | Proterro is the developer of Protose sugar, a fermentation-ready sugar feedstock that will enable the economical and scalable production of biofuels. | |
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Ms Kasdin presents breakout session "Development of a fermentation-ready sugar feedstock for biofuels production" at the 2010 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). | ||
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Track Assignment: Biofuels & Bioenergy Platforms | ||
Panel Title: Revolutionary Fuel Pathways | ||
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When: | Session 6, Dec. 13, 2010 | |
3:30pm-5:00pm | ||
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Where: | Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa | |
Honolulu, Hawaii | ||
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Why: | The biggest barrier to market adoption of biofuels is the high cost of cultivating, harvesting, transporting and processing of feedstock. | |
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Through its novel, patent-pending biosynthetic process, Proterro can resolve the feedstock challenge for biofuels by delivering non-agriculture-based, fermentation-ready sugar at a dramatically lower cost than sugarcane, corn or other energy crops. | ||
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Proterro's Protose sugar is a fortified sucrose that is a sustainable, inexpensive, geoflexible, fermentation-ready feedstock. It can be used to produce a variety of commercial scale fuels through standard industrial fermentation methods. | ||
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For more information, please visit www.proterro.com. | ||
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Contacts: | Proterro media contact: Rick Sacks, rick@smartpr.net, 973.467.8728 | |
For BIO conference info:Tiffany Leimback, 202-742-6472 | ||
tleimback@bio.org | ||
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Notes: | Proterro's investors are Battelle Ventures and Braemar Energy Ventures. | |
Proterro and Protose are trademarks of Proterro, Inc. |
Contacts:
Proterro, Inc.
Media
Rick Sacks, 973-467-8728
rick@smartpr.net
or
For
BIO conference info:
Tiffany Leimback, 202-742-6472
tleimback@bio.org