LS9 prepares fatty alcohol sales

It was a fantastic 2-day marathon attending the Jefferies Global Clean Technology conference. I was able to file 5 news articles on ICIS (subscription-based):

• Bio-latex rises as alternative to styrene butadiene materials
• Codexis interim CEO allays investor fears on management changes
• US Metabolix eyes smaller 10,000 tonne/year bioplastic production
• Dutch Avantium plans to start selling bio-polyester by 2015
• US DuPont expects $1.2bn in 2012 sales for industrial biotech

Unfortunately, I am not able to post these stories for free but the good news is that I have more stories to post where these came from (hopefully after my school exam next week Wednesday).

In the meantime, let's talk about LS9, and I've "whined" before that I really did not have any clue on what specific products they are aiming to commercialize even after their scale-up announcement last November.

The company is now ready to talk "future product sales" and even has a fancy new website to show for it (also got a brochure from the conference about their company). According to LS9 CEO Ed Dineen at the Jefferies conference, the company is hoping to hit their commercialization target (they are about 85% right now) by the end of this year.

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