What does Novozymes do to further reduce enzyme costs?
In Novozymes we continue our work on reducing the specific price of enzymes used for cellulosic ethanol From an R&D perspective our efforts include the development of enzymes with higher specific activity, and/or increased thermostability, pH tolerance, etc. Our R&D efforts also focus on improving the understanding of different enzyme combinations to maximize cellulose and hemicellulose hydrolysis. Finally, our efforts to reduce enzyme production costs include evaluation of low-cost fermentation feedstocks, efforts to increase fermentation yields, development of simpler enzyme recovery processes, as well as determining the most appropriate locations for enzyme production. In Novozymes we a proud to say that our R&D, production and business development efforts are on track to deliver commercially feasible enzymes and enzyme-related technologies for cellulosic ethanol production in 2010.
