March 1st, 2009

• Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil production company and leader in algal synthetic biology
• The company uses microalgae to renewably produce clean and scalable high performance biofuels, industrial chemicals and health and wellness products
• Solazyme grows algae in the dark, and feeds it agricultural and industrial waste products that it uses to produce oil. Algae is incredibly feedstock flexible and because it has developed over millions of years to survive in harsh conditions it can eat just about anything and make oil
• The oils produced can be used as replacements for fossil petroleum and plant oils in a diverse range of products running from green household cleaning supplies to cosmetics and foods

Source: Solazyme

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