KiwiChem Clients (1994-current)

  • Chemicals:                 DuPont, Koch Industries, Monsanto
  • Corn Processors:        Cargill, Tate & Lyle, MCP (ADM), .. ... 
  • Biotech and Related:  Novozymes, Eli Lilly, Rhodia, Biotech Resources,
  • VC's:                         Various
  • Biobased Chemicals:  BioAmber, LS9, Gevo, Glycos, BAL-labs, Draths
  • Biomass Conversion:  Virdia
  • Government :             Iowa Corn Growers Association; State of Wisconsin
  • University:                  Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

KiwiChem Work Area

  • Biobased fuels and chemicals
    • Biodiesels, ethanol, linear & branched alcohols, etc
    • Jet fuel, rocket propellant, etc
    • CH4, H2, CO
    • Organic acids, esters, ketones, amides, lactams, anhydrides, ethers, dioxolanes, dioxanes, glycols, polyols, etc
  • Thermal, fermentation, catalytic, combined processes
  • 500 to 500,000 tonne/year scale
  • $3 - $300 Million capital investment
  • From concept to operating facility
  • Feedstocks, conversion/reaction, separation, products, biochemical pathways