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Portuguese company to help Invista boost biotechnology

13/08/2013
Yarn producer Invista and computational biology company SilicoLife are to develop new technologies to boost bio-derived processes, with the initial focus on butadiene - a starting material for nylon 6.6.

“Invista is constantly seeking innovative approaches to advance its position in biotechnology,” said Warren Primeaux, president of Invista Intermediates. “We anticipate this will help us accelerate our timeline to develop new bio-derived processes for a range of industrial chemicals, helping us improve our cost and sustainability position in this area.”

Simão Soares, CEO of SilicoLife, added: “The collaboration combines our engineering expertise with Invista’s research to accelerate the design of optimised microbial strains for production of industrial chemicals from renewable feedstocks.”

Portugal-based SilicoLife provides in-silico (via computer simulation) metabolic engineering solutions, building computational models of microbial cells and developing proprietary algorithms to find pathways between raw material and end product.



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