GENOMATICA INC.
History
| Year | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Christophe Schilling founded Geno together with bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson, while finishing his Ph.D. |
| 2008 | Produced Geno’s first bio-based chemical 1,4-butanediol (BDO). |
| 2016 | Novamont opens world’s first bio-based plant for a major intermediate chemical using Geno BDO technology. |
| 2017 | Announce the Geno BG (butylene glycol for the beauty industry) process. |
| 2019 | Begin commercial-scale shipments of Brontide for natural cosmetic products and partnered with Covestro to develop high-performance materials from plants. |
| 2020 | Announced a demonstration-scale facility for plant-based nylon-6 with Aquafil. |
| 2021 | Second commercial plant using Geno process. Geno BDO technology licensed to Qore® to produce 1,4-butanediol (BDO) under its brand QIRA and lululemon makes its first-ever sustainable materials investment, accelerating its goal to transform its largest material by volume, nylon. |
| 2022 | Launched Avela and announced a venture to scale palm oil alternatives with Unilever and KAO. |
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