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ZeaChem Inc.
ZeaChem is creating tomorrow’s chemicals and fuels—today. We take wood, grasses and other non-food plants and convert them into chemical building blocks like organic acids, acetates and esters, which are used by our customers to make a wide range of familiar consumer products, including plastics, paints, solvents, and more. Our bio-based chemical products can also be converted via thermochemical …
Profile
- Industry
- Biorefining, Energy, Industrial chemistry
- Topics
- Sugar, palm oil & agri-commodity processing, Bioethanol, Organic acids & bio-based chemicals
- Role
- Producer — “…][3]. The company developed processes to convert non-food biomass, such as wood and grasses, into chemical bui…”
- Parent / group
- ZeaChem Applied Technology LLC (subsidiary)
- Why it is bioeconomy
- ZeaChem is a developer of biorefinery technology that converts cellulosic biomass into fuels and biochemicals using fermentation and chemical synthesis.
- Found via
- LanzaTech; Origin Materials
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What they offer
Subsidiaries: ZeaChem Applied Technologies LLC
News & status 6
- 2017 Latest status: ZeaChem rebranded or transitioned to the name Zea2. ↗ ↗ ↗
- 2025-01-21 RoundupZeaChem, a biorefining firm, joined with Leaf Resources to develop a Southeast U.S. project based on Leaf’s Glycell process, with Leaf increasing its ownership stake in ZeaChem to 13% via a $400,000 investment.
- 2025-01-21 A Summer Of Start-Ups For Biobased ChemicalsZeaChem Inc. is expanding its biobased chemical production at a Boardman, Oregon biorefinery, moving from sugar-based to cellulosic feedstocks (hybrid poplar and other biomasses) and diversifying product output to include acetic acid, ethyl acetate, ethanol, …
- 2025-01-21 Business RoundupZeaChem, a cellulosic chemicals and ethanol company, has received undisclosed equity investment from Japanese conglomerate Itochu to help expand ZeaChem’s technology globally, advancing its biorefinery initiatives in Boardman, Oregon.
- 2025-01-21 U.S. Guarantees Loans For Cellulosic FuelsZeaChem Inc. is the recipient of a USDA loan guarantee of $233 million to build a 25 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic fuels and chemicals plant in Boardman, Oregon, expected to open later in 2012.
- 2025-07-24 On the scene: Emerging energy solutions – Oregon BusinessZeaChem recently secured a $232 million loan guarantee for its work with smaller feedstocks like hybrid poplar, highlighting the company as a key player in the Northwest’s aviation biofuel innovation ecosystem.
- 2025-01-21 Business RoundupZeaChem, a biomass-based fuels and chemicals company, has raised $19 million in its third round of venture financing and plans to start up a 250,000-gallon-per-year plant this year, with ambitions to develop commercial-scale biorefineries.
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Ownership & investors 2
| parent | ZeaChem Applied Technology LLC |
| subsidiary | ZeaChem Applied Technologies LLC |
Partners & deals 1
| counterparty | Zea2 (formerly ZeaChem) …ZeaChem rebranded or transitioned to the name Zea2.… |
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