Yokohama Team Develops World's First' Butadiene from Biomass Technology

摘要

Tokyo-Yokohama Rubber, in a joint research team with Riken and Zeon, said it has developed the "world's first" technology capable of "efficiently" producing butadiene from biomass. The team created cells capable of producing butadiene using new artificial pathways and enzymes. This will allow producers to go through "cheaper" intermediates than conventional metabolic pathways, and by incorporating the knowledge of the enzymes that have been developed to date, the cost of butadiene fermentation production will be "significantly" reduced, Yokohama noted.