Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin to Present on “Development of a Fermentation-Ready Sugar Feedstock for Biofuels Production” at 2010 Pacific Rim Summit

Proterro is the developer of Protose sugar, a fermentation-ready sugar feedstock that will enable the economical and scalable production of biofuels. The biggest barrier to market adoption of biofuels is the high cost of cultivating, harvesting, transporting and processing of feedstock. Through its novel, patent-pending biosynthetic process, Proterro can resolve the feedstock challenge for biofuels by delivering on-agriculture-based, fermentation-ready sugar at a dramatically lower cost than sugarcane, corn or other energy crops. Proterro’s Protose sugar is a fortified sucrose that is stainable, inexpensive, geoflexible, fermentation-ready feedstock. It can be used to produce a variety of commercial scale fuels through standard industrial fermentation methods.