On these pages you can read more about Novozymes’s role in the biofuels industry and our vision for how biofuel can help meet increasing global needs. You can also get an overview of our positions in the current debate and of the papers we have prepared in our work to understand the sustainability dimensions of biofuel.

Our role
Novozymes uses biotechnology to improve the use of resources in more than 30 industries around the world; the biofuel industry is one of them. Novozymes offers what is probably the most efficient technology platform to further improve the sustainability performance of biofuel production.

The use of enzymes in the biofuels industry is a mature and proven technology. Nonetheless, there is still great potential in the use of enzyme technology to further optimize and improve the production of biofuel.

Using enzymes, the biofuels industry achieves higher yields and increases the efficiency in every single plant used for the production thus realizing a strengthened sustainability profile - and the technology is constantly developing.

February 16 Novozymes launched the first enzymes called Cellic CTec2 that turn waste into fuel at a cost on par with gasoline and conventional ethanol at the US market prices.
Novozymes has partnered with leading companies in the biofuels industry, such as POET, Greenfield Ethanol, Inbicon, COFCO, CTC, Lignol and ICM, to gain insight into different process technologies. From these partnerships we know that Cellic CTec2 works on many different feedstock types, including corn cobs and stalks, wheat straw, sugarcane bagasse and wood chips.