Nucelis inaugurates its pilot plant

In California, Nucelis commissioned its first, state-of-the-art fermentation facility. The new pilot plant was custom-designed and fabricated to enable Nucelis to run virtually any fermentation process.  Nucelis states it believes in exploring nature’s own production factories such as plants, yeast, and bacteria, without recourse to synthetically re-engineer microorganisms or by using controversial GMO techniques.

Instead, it starts with naturally-efficient organisms that already make a target chemical, and work to increase that organism’s production. Nucelis researchers focus on using low-value feed stocks that come from outside of the food chain.  Nucelis’ first product will be squalane, which should be available for testing in the next few months.

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