Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Biofuels Digest
July 22, 2009

Charles O. Holliday, chairman of Dupont: “Industrial biotechnology is a technology whose time has come. For sixty years we have focused on long chain polymers - mylar, nylon, to name a few, and with biobased chemistry and fuels that’s what we’re looking at: a vein of technology so deep, it will spawn a host of innovations. We believe it has much more breadth than polymer chemistry. This climate change issue is that big. One of our challenges is to continue our lines of business, to keep the company together, while we develop these new projects.”

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