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Thomson Financial Business Description:
| The Group's principal activity is to develop environmentally sustainable, economically attractive alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics, fuels and chemicals. It applies the advanced tools of metabolic engineering and molecular biology to efficiently produce PHA Natural Plastics in microbial systems and directly in nonfood plant crops. The Group's microbial fermentation system combines its proprietary engineered bacteria with corn sugar and other materials in a fermenter. Its second technology platform, which is in an early stage, is a biomass biorefinery system using switchgrass to co-produce both PHA Natural Plastics and biomass feedstock for the production of ethanol or other biofuels. Metabolix, Biopol and Where Nature Performs are the Group's registered trademarks. It owned 340 issued patents and 120 patent applications world wide. The Group operates in the United States. |
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