| BUTALCO
is a start-up company founded in August 2007 with its headquarters in
the Swiss cantone Zug. Founders are the biologist Professor Dr. Eckhard
Boles, professor at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences at the
Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany, and the chemist and economist Dr.
Gunter Festel, founder of the Swiss advisory and investment firm FESTEL
CAPITAL.
BUTALCO
is currently developing a new process to use C5/C6 sugars for bio-
ethanol and biobutanol fermentation. Furthermore, BUTALCO is working
together with partners to develop an integrated lignocellulose-based
bioethanol/biobutanol production process. The development covers the
whole process chain including all production steps from lignocellulose
hydrolysis to downstream processing.
The
first patent applications have been filed and the aim is to licence
this technology to biofuel producers. The company is wholly privately
financed and is currently looking for additional investors to
strengthen the research activities and to identify new attractive
fields. |
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