15 October 2014
DEINOL, a collaborative research programme for
the development of second-generation biofuel production processes
based on the extraordinary capacity of
Deinococcus bacteria, obtained in 2010 a funding commitment
from Oseo-ISI (now Bpifrance) for €8.9 million,
including €6 million for DEINOVE.
The company has already received €4m and
achieved the first key milestones.
The DEINOL consortium will receive additional funding
from Bpifrance upon reaching successful milestones.
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* Having demonstrated the value of DEINOL technology
on model substrates (glucose/xylose),
DEINOVE is now proceeding to test the technology
with industrial biomass.
* U.S.-based MBI is in the process of scaling up
a transformational biomass pretreatment technology,
called AFEX.
AFEX is designed to be
a sustainable, economically viable source of
pretreated biomass for food, feed, fuel, and
other biorefinery applications.
* Preliminary DEINOVE lab results have demonstrated that
Deinococcus assimilates over 95% of the sugars present
in AFEX pretreated biomass and efficiently converts
these sugars into ethanol,
they represent an important step forward on
the road to commercial production.
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