Proterro is the only company that makes sucrose instead of extracting it, lowering the cost of sugar for the economical and scalable production of biofuels and biobased chemicals.

Its non-crop-based, noncellulosic, fermentation-ready sugar feedstock avoids the pricing volatility associated with corn and other feedstock markets.

The company has functioning, highly productive, patented, sucrose-producing organisms and a working model photobioreactor system.

Proterro's clean sucrose is NOT derived from cellulosic biomass. Cellulosic sugars depend on an agricultural set of steps that Proterro avoids; they are made first in a constructive process that overshoots by building biomass that has a low-sugar content and, then, in a destructive process that removes toxins and isolates the desired sugars. These factors contribute to the high-capital and unit costs of cellulosic sugar.

Proterro sucrose, however, is solely made in a constructive manner. A sucrose molecule is built based on its elements, using a naturally occurring photosynthetic process.

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