Essentially all power, fuels, chemicals and plastics are derived directly or indirectly from hydrocarbon-based feedstocks, primarily crude oil or natural gas. Driven by global concerns over climate change, energy security and rising energy prices, producers and consumers worldwide are looking for renewable and sustainable alternatives.

In the past decade, the application of advances in the areas of genomics and synthetic biology has established industrial biotechnology as one of the most promising and innovative approaches to cost-effectively replace hydrocarbon-based processes.

TPG Biotech® believes that the combination of novel genomics-based technologies, applied chemistry and process engineering can be utilized to develop renewable routes to existing industrial fuels and chemicals as well as novel bio-based products with improved performance and higher market value.