Company Profile: Virdia

Chemical conversion of cellulosic biomass into sugars using acid


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Categories Biomass to sugars, Cellulosic feedstocks, Cellulosic feedstocks
Competitors Novozymes, Genencor, Verenium Corporation, Iogen, Abengoa, Weyland, BlueFire Renewables, Renmatix, REAC Fuel, Codexis, Sweetwater Energy, Chemtex, Inventure Renewables, Range Fuels
Relationships Khosla Ventures (Investor)
Burrill and Company (Investor)
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Strategy & Markets

Originally, Virdia was using fuming hydrochloric acid (HCl) in a series of extraction and...

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