Responding to market demand, SunEthanol partnered with Lansing-based biotech firm, MBI International, to improve ethanol fermentation methods.
According to excerpts from the article:
This fermentation method utilizes SunEthanol's uniqueQ-Microbe(TM), which effectively digests and ferments cellulosic feedstocks to ethanol in a single-step process.
"There are several reasons we chose to partner with MBI," states Dr. Sarad Parekh, VP of Research and Development at SunEthanol. "We were impressed by their multidisciplinary expertise, rigorous and disciplined scale-up approach, and specialized on-site pilot-plant facilities."
MBI is a Lansing, Michigan biotechnology firm specializing in fermentation process development and scale-up. MBI also develops biomass processing technologies. Currently, MBI is actively scaling-up AFEX (ammonia fiber expansion), a promising biomass pretreatment technology developed at Michigan State University.
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