Arbor Fuel is developing yeast strains and processes to produce both ethanol and butanol from renewable, non-food biomass
sources. We are applying the power of biotechnology to generate these yeast strains and processes to enable the efficient commercial
production of advanced biofuels. The yeast strains that we have developed use biomass as an environmentally sensitive and economically
sensible feedstock for fuel production. By coupling biotechnological approaches with advanced metabolic engineering technologies, we
have made yeast strains for the cost effective generation of fuel from biomass a reality while helping to alleviate the current
unintended consequences of the utilization of food crops for the production of biofuels.
Arbor Fuel has as its core mission to develop alternative, economical and environmentally friendly biofuels from cellulosic
biomass materials using our advantaged technologies. Other biotechnology-based processes use externally produced enzymes to break down
pre-treated biomass to sugars, followed by a subsequent fermentation step. These externally produced enzymes are expensive and the
digestion and fermentation process is typically long because of its serial nature. Arbor Fuel has overcome these problems by applying
the sciences of molecular biology and modern genetic engineering to improve cell performance, and thereby has created new
yeast strains for the production of advanced biofuels from cellulosic material.
