Download - Zeachem BIO Pacific Rim 2012 Presentation
Commercializing Cellulosic Biorefining
12 October, 2012 Bob Walsh Chief Commercial Officer
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Tomorrow’s Fuels & Chemicals Today
We Create High Margin and Sustainable Alternatives
to Petroleum-Based Fuels and Chemicals in Use, Today.
Poplar Harvesting
Boardman, OR
250K GPY Demo Facility
Boardman, OR Fuels and Chemicals
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Feedstock Flexible = Globally Replicable
Co-Locate Biorefineries With Cellulosic Feedstock Supplies
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ZeaChem’s C2 Product Platform
Carbon efficient
40% higher yield than other processes
>90% green house gas reduction
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ZeaChem’s C3 Product Platform
Pivot to C3 platform with a switch of organism
High carbon yield, natural organism similar to C2
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Multiple, Established Markets $1 Trillion Fuels & Chemicals Market
Sugars
Propionic
Acid
Acetic
Acid Ethanol
Propanol Propylene
Alkylate /
Polygas
Drop-in
Gasoline /
Alkylate
Poly-
propylene
Automotive /
Packaging
Acrylics Super-
Absorbents
Ethylene
Linear
a-olefins
Ethylene
glycol
Poly-
ethylene Packaging
PET
Jet / Diesel
VAM EVA Paint /
Adhesives
Acetic
Anhydride
Cellulosic
Acetate
Rayon /
Filters
Gasoline
Blending
Competitive Today On Base Product = Competitive On Downstream Products
Ethyl
Acetate
Sales
$485B Refiners
$110B Consumer Products
Chemical Companies
$180B
Consumer Products Paint Companies
Chemical Companies
$245B Airlines / DoD
Refiners
Market Size Customer
$60B Refiners
Ethyl
Propionate
Commercial Phase (C2 Platform)
Development Phase (C3 Platform)
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Linking The Chain
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Company History Demonstrated Track Record Of Execution
Lab
Lakewood, CO
Company headquarters
Boardman, OR
250K GPY
Demonstration of integrated process at scale
Demo
Golden, CO
50K GPY
10,000x scale-up of technology
Pilot
Boardman, OR
25MM+ GPY
Key development milestones completed
Co-location further mitigates risk
1st
Commercial
2006 2008 2012
Successfully Developed Technology From Lab To Demo Scale & Raised 3 Rounds Of Financing
Founded
2002
Menlo Park, CA
5 GPY
Proved out technology at bench scale
C3 Platform Rollout
C3 will follow closely behind C2
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Demo Plant (250,000 GPY) – Boardman, OR
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Demo Plant (250,000 GPY) – Boardman, OR
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Commercializing
• 1st Commercial
USDA LG
LT Feedstock Agreements
Offtake
Financing structure in place
• Global Rollout
Products
Markets
Geographies