February 15, 2011

OPX’s product meets performance goals

BOULDER – An area company that specializes in bio-based chemicals and fuels announced its first product has met its performance and cost goals.

Boulder-based OPX Biotechnologies Inc. said Monday in a press release that its BioAcrylic compound, which is made from corn sugar or cane sugar feedstock, can be produced more cheaply than the standard petroleum-based acrylic chemical it is intended to replace.

 

OPX will now move from a pilot-scale process to a larger demonstration
phase. The company plans to begin commercial-scale development in 2014,
president and chief executive Charles R. Eggert said in the release.

The petroleum-based acrylic is used…

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