EdeniQ’s Corn to Cellulosic Migration Project ("CCM Project") focuses on the migration of billions of dollars of capital deployed in today’s corn ethanol industry toward cost-effective production of greener ethanol from corn stover, switchgrass and woodchips.

CCM utilizes EdeniQ’s suite of proprietary technologies: the Cellunator (mechanical pretreatment), Fiberzymes (advanced enzymes for conversion of cellulose to sugars), and high yielding yeasts to ferment both the xylose (C5) and glucose (C6) sugars into ethanol.

EdeniQ has teamed with Logos Technologies on this CCM Project and together the companies applied for and won a $20.4M Department of Energy Grant.

The CCM Project will begin operation of a pilot scale cellulosic feedstock test facility by the end of 2011. The project will also:

• Develop second-generation yeasts for simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF);
• Demonstrate the effective use of various feedstocks: corn stover, switchgrass and woodships.
• Gather metrics for the construction and scale-up to a commercial-sized facility.
• The CCM Project is sited in our existing facility in Visalia, CA. The Project will sustain 30 positions over the 3.5 year project period, including 11 new positions.

In addition to Logos Technologies, UC Davis, Novozymes, USDA and Ceres are working in cooperation with EdeniQ on CCM.