Producing high performance
cellulase enzymes

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sales-bioindustrials@codexis.com

Cost effective biomass to sugar conversion

Codexis CodeXyme™ cellulase enzymes can convert biomass to sugar, enabling cost effective production of practical, renewable products in the fuels and chemicals markets. Through a major collaboration with Shell that began in 2006, Codexis is developing CodeXyme™ cellulases to meet the exacting technical requirements of Shell’s cellulosic ethanol processes.

Codexis is also tailoring CodeXyme™ cellulases for use in other processes, including production of detergent alcohols from cellulosic feedstocks in collaboration with Chemtex. These feedstocks are difficult to convert to fermentable sugars, and Codexis has made significant progress in cellulase performance using the company’s CodeEvolver™ directed evolution technology platform and has scaled up cellulase production using the CodeXporter™ enzyme production platform.

Codexis enzymes can lower capital and operating costs

Codexis enzymes (right) compared to the natural (wild type) enzyme (left) can improve performance, thus lowering capital and operating costs and potentially reducing time to market.