General Biomass Company is a United States-based corporation developing cellulosic technology to convert non-food raw materials to sugars for production of green renewable chemicals, bioplastics, and cellulosic biofuels. General Biomass technology enables production of a wide variety of enzymes for industrial and medical biotech applications.

We use advanced biotechnology to develop custom biomass deconstruction enzymes. Each nonfood biomass feedstock is different: old newspapers require different enzymes than sugar cane bagasse, old palm trees or beetle-killed pine. We use a deep knowledge of
biomass structure and sophisticated genomics tools to find the right enzymes for each feedstock, and produce them efficiently for
R&D, pilot plant and commercial scale processing. Our enzymes also have medical applications in biosensors, biofuel cells, and antibacterial polymers.

Our next generation enzymes and technology will enable mass production of low cost nonfood biomass sugars as commodities shipped in rail cars to serve the green chemical and bioplastics markets and replace sugar from corn. See our recent interview on Il Bioeconomista.

General Biomass Company is currently developing advanced industrial enzymes which convert nonfood cellulosic feedstocks to sugars for bioplastics, sustainable packaging, renewable chemicals and biofuels. Our cellulosic technology can produce sugars from a wide range of feedstocks: ag residues, MSW, forest residues, or peripheral biomass from fruits, palm and coffee beans.

We work with customers to create value chain technologies for sustainable packaging in the food and beverage industries, ethanol, butanol and biojet producers who want to utilize cellulosic feedstocks, and companies who want to turn waste products into sustainable GHG-reducing solutions.

Sustainability

You have a choice now. You can choose packaging and products made without oil. Most of those renewable products and packaging are made today from corn sugar or food starch, a first step toward getting us off of oil.

General Biomass takes the next step - enabling recyclable or biodegradable products and packaging made from nonfood biomass.

How? By developing enzymes to convert nonfood biomass and waste paper to biosugars, a clean, renewable, and universal source of hydrocarbons to make bioplastics which replace plastics made from oil. Recycling these plastics actually removes CO2 from the atmosphere and sequesters it naturally in structures such as building materials and playground equipment.

General Biomass Company develops advanced enzymes  to make bioplastics and renewable chemicals from nonfood biomass and municipal solid waste. Our engineered cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes make biosugars - glucose and xylose - from cheap nonfood biomass. Glucose is the universal substrate for all industrial fermentations, allowing production of a wide variety of renewable chemicals and bioplastics. By providing cheap glucose from nonfood biomass, our enzymes enable production of sustainable bioplastics without the use of grain, starch, palm oil and other food-based sources.

Now that's truly sustainable.

Let Us Help You Become Sustainable

Our world is changing rapidly. Sustainability is no longer an option. In the 21st century it is a necessity for companies and brands which hope to serve billions of customers who know their planet and their future are in trouble, and want to do something about it.

Plastics are part of almost everything we buy and the package it comes in. Today those products and that packaging are made from oil, with all the attendant financial and environmental costs. Most sustainable packaging today comes from starch, obtained from corn or other food grains. As world grain supplies feel more stress, consumers looking for sustainable products and packaging have few alternatives.

General Biomass Company uses advanced biotechnology to develop custom biomass deconstruction enzymes. Each nonfood biomass feedstock is different: old newspapers require different enzymes than sugar cane bagasse or nut hulls or coffee bean husks or beetle-killed pine. We use a deep knowledge of biomass structure and sophisticated genomics tools to find the right enzymes for each feedstock, and produce them efficiently for R&D, pilot plant and commercial scale processing.

We can help you become more sustainable. We offer consulting, custom enzyme development, and an enzyme scaleup path to pilot and commercial production that fits your feedstock. Please contact us with your needs.

General Biomass Company was founded to do something about global warming. We're doing that by developing core enzymatic technologies which convert nonfood biomass to industrial sugars from urban, consumer and agricultural wastes to produce low-carbon biofuels and bioplastics.

Green plants use solar energy to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to sugars which are stored in the structural form of biomass. Our technology releases those sugars, making them available for advanced biofuels, including biojetfuel, replacing fossil liquid fuels from petroleum. Bioplastics made from these sugars can actually sequester CO2 in the form of building materials made from recycled plastics. Biofuels, green chemicals and bioplastics made from biomass can reduce CO2 emissions and replace fossil hydrocarbons from oil. 

We work with customers to create supply chain technologies for sustainable packaging in the food and beverage industries, ethanol, butanol, and biojet producers who want to utilize cellulosic feedstocks, and companies who want to turn waste products into sustainable GHG-reducing solutions.

We have a number of elements in place to develop a company that is profitable and built to last. These include the market drivers of climate change and desire for sustainability, founder's 10-year experience with tech and biotech product development, a focus on core technologies which will serve a large array of new markets, and the scientific and technical background to attract competent and motivated people who will develop our technology and serve these markets successfully.