Title: THE EMERGING BIOBASED ECONOMY A Vision from Industry
1THE EMERGING BIOBASED ECONOMY A Vision from
Industry
- Liekel Faber
- Genencor International Ltd
2Agenda
- Genencors Vision
- Genencors role as key player in Industrial
Biotech - Genencor in Russia
- personal experience
- - why Russia
- - state-private partnership
- - investment climate
3Genencor Division at a glance
Develops and produces enzymes for industrial
applications
- - History traced to 1982
- - gt400 Million in Total Revenues during 2004
- - 8 Bioproducts manufacturing sites
- - As of 12/31/04 an IP portfolio included 484 US
- issued patents and 855 US pending patent
- applications
- -Approximately 1200 Employees Worldwide
4Genencor has a role to play in Industrial
Biotech!
- Genencors Products In Everyday Life
- Innovation for Many Industries
- Cleaning
- Textiles
- Starch Processing, Fuel Ethanol
- Food Animal Feed
- Expanding the boundaries of biotechnology
- Decontaminating chemical biological weapons
- Decontaminating prions that cause mad cow
disease - Catalyst of the Biobased Economy
- Biochemicals
- Bioenergy
- Biomaterials
Delivering on the Promise of Biotechnology for
Over two Decades!
5Genencor Danisco New Opportunities
6Genencors Biorefinery
Fuels
Cell Factory
Sugar Cane Beet
Chemicals
Sucrose
Starch Grains
Glucose
BioRefinery
Enzymes
Mixed Sugars
Polymers
Lignocellulose
Specialties
Co-Products
Upgraded Co-Products
7Biomass conversion is the Key to the Vision
Needed non-food parts of food crops (wheat
straw, wood chips, recycled paper, corn stalks,
etc.) and dedicated energy crops requiring low
in-puts (switchgrass) Genencors role with a
US DOEs NREL Contract to substantially reduce
cost of enzyme production - 30-fold cost
improvement achieved
8Genencor and Russia
- Why are we active in Russia?
- - Special project
- -Market approach
9Genencor and Russia
- Investment climate in Russia.
- - potential and resources
- - agriculture
- - bio-refineries / bio-economy
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10Genencor and Russia
- Private sector and the State a partnership?
- - States role
- - Creation
11Genencors broad vision
- We envision a future where biotechnology fulfills
many unmet needs.. - In development and deployment of industrial
enzymes - In the production of fuels, chemicals
materials - We envision a future where biotechnology helps
create sustainable industrial activities - We envision a future where biorefineries take
their place alongside oil refineries
12Genencor and Russia
- Thank you for your attention
- And we wish you a successful continuation of this
interesting East- West dialogue