Biobased Chemicals

Security of Supply and Price Predictability for the Synthetic Rubber Industry

The chemicals industry is in a period of fundamental transition. The industry faces a broad mix of new pressures including new demand centers in emerging markets, shifting consumer preferences, challenging regulatory environments, escalating crude oil costs, and changes in refining practices (lightening of the feed-slate). Taken together, these market dynamics present a stable opportunity for GlycosBio to deliver value though drop in replacement biochemicals that offer the synthetic rubber industry enhanced security of supply and greater price predictability.

GlycosBio creates value through a unique set of solutions. With our non-food feedstock strategy and high performance microbial conversion platform we are able to produce economically and ecologically sustainable chemicals. Bio-SIM™ (Bio-based Synthetic Isoprene Monomer) is GlycosBio’s most significant commercial offering and is the primary output of our Malaysia production facility. Part of the synthetic rubber industry’s long-term future, Bio-SIM™ is a central component of several polymers including Isoprene Rubber (IIR), Butyl Rubber (BR) and SIS block co-polymers. Bio-SIM™ is integrated into hundreds of finished products worldwide.