Our first manufacturing process targets BDO. We have been producing BDO at demonstration scale since June 2011. We expect the first commercial-scale BDO plant that utilizes our process to produce approximately 40 million pounds of BDO per year in a plant in Europe that is owned and operated by one of our industry partners, Novamont. Our goal is for this plant to begin production in 2013 and for larger commercial-scale BDO plants owned and operated together with our industry partners in the United States, Europe and Asia to begin production starting in 2014.

Our second manufacturing process targets butadiene. In August 2011, we successfully produced bio-based butadiene, made from renewable feedstocks. 

Genomatica is also developing a pipeline of sustainable processes to enable production of many other intermediate and basic chemical that, like BDO and butadiene, have large, well-defined, established markets.

Genomatica has rapidly scaled its process for the production of BDO, currently at demonstration scale.  We expect the first commercial-scale BDO plant that utilizes our processes to begin high-volume production in 2013.