Phytonix Corporation

Phytonix Corporation Phytonix, an award-winning company, uses synthetic biology combined with photosynthesis to eliminate

Phytonix Corporation is an award-winning industrial biotechnology company headquartered in North Carolina, with development laboratories in Sweden, Colorado, Nova Scotia and Vancouver, Canada. The Company is commercializing a globally patented carbon dioxide utilization (CDU) process that leverages photosynthesis to directly convert CO2 emissions from industrial sources into biobased chemicals and

fuels. Our initial product is 1-butanol, which currently sells at a wholesale price of approximately $9.00 /gallon in the industrial chemical market. We also produce isobutanol and are developing 1-octonol production capability. Phytonix estimates that its process will enable it to produce 1-butanol for about $2.50/gallon - about 50% of the cost of the incumbent producers fossil-based production which uses propylene, a petroleum derivative, as feedstock. This will make Phytonix the world's low-cost producer of butanol. The world industrial chemical market for butanol is about $11 billion per year, of which about $2.4 billion per year is sold in the United States. The Company's carbon-negative butanol production process replaces an existing fossil-based, carbon-intensive process currently employed by some of the world’s largest chemical companies. For every 138 gallons of 1-butanol produced, the Phytonix process eliminates one tonne of CO2 feedstock via conversion, creating oxygen as the byproduct. Phytonix's solar chemical plants will be co-located at industrial facilities emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide. These include industrial manufacturing plants, desalinization installations, power generation facilities, chemical production facilities, natural gas compression stations, combined heat and power generation facilities, oil refineries, steel and aluminum refineries, cement plants, industrial chemical fermentation facilities and breweries.

An article on Phytonix is the lead story in todays issue of the Biofuels Digest (5+ million daily readership):
06/22/2022

An article on Phytonix is the lead story in todays issue of the Biofuels Digest (5+ million daily readership):

Bruce Dannenberg founded his company Phytonix in 2009 after having worked in the renewable energy industry for many years. Familiar with a variety of bio-based technologies, he saw a lot of energy production efforts operating at high costs and low volume, thus never likely to be feasible or commerci...

06/09/2022

Check out the article below about Phytonix and their mission to create a more sustainable world and address the climate crises! Phytonix was the first-prize...

Proud of the Phytonix team for this achievement!
12/16/2021

Proud of the Phytonix team for this achievement!

On November 30th, 2021 Phytonix Corporation won the First Prize in the finals round of the Fifth China (Shenzen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition out of 1,473 company entries for its project “Low-Cost Photosynthetic 1-Butanol Production from Carbon Dioxide Emissions”. The ...

"The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news: we already have...
11/18/2021

"The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news: we already have every tool we need to beat it. The challenge is not identifying the solutions, but rolling them out with great speed."

We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58600723"Despite all the promises to take action, the world is still on cou...
09/18/2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58600723

"Despite all the promises to take action, the world is still on course to heat up to dangerous levels. That's the latest blunt assessment of the United Nations."

Climate plans of more than 100 countries show we're heading in the wrong direction, the UN says.

Stark warnings and a dire situation from the IPCC's landmark Climate Report.....Technologies such as Phytonix's are avai...
08/09/2021

Stark warnings and a dire situation from the IPCC's landmark Climate Report.....Technologies such as Phytonix's are available that can still help stabilize the impacts:

"Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases in this decade can prevent such climate breakdown, with every fraction of a degree of further heating likely to compound the accelerating effects, according to the International Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading authority on climate science."

Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather

"Ecocide: How a fast-growing movement plans to put environmental destruction on a par with war crimes"
06/23/2021

"Ecocide: How a fast-growing movement plans to put environmental destruction on a par with war crimes"

Ecocide is an umbrella term for all forms of the mass damage of ecosystems, from industrial pollution to the release of micro plastics into the oceans.

" Nations around the world would need to immediately stop approving new coal-fired power plants and new oil and gas fiel...
05/21/2021

" Nations around the world would need to immediately stop approving new coal-fired power plants and new oil and gas fields and quickly phase out gasoline-powered vehicles if they want to avert the most catastrophic effects of climate change, the world’s leading energy agency said Tuesday."

A landmark report from the International Energy Agency says countries need to move faster and more aggressively to cut planet-warming pollution.

What If All the World's Ice Melted?
02/21/2021

What If All the World's Ice Melted?

We hear an awful lot about global warming these days, but what if that concept was taken to the extreme and the entire planet’s ice melted?Ever found yoursel...

"A million species of plants and animals including Asian elephants, orangutans and blue whales are now at risk of extinc...
10/16/2020

"A million species of plants and animals including Asian elephants, orangutans and blue whales are now at risk of extinction, according to the United Nations. Last month, 70 world leaders signed the “Leaders Pledge for Nature” and vowed to take steps to halt the catastrophic human-made decline. There were three notable exceptions among those who didn’t sign — President Donald Trump, his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison."

Analysis: Biodiversity issues are “cross border,” U.N. biodiversity chief Elizabeth Mrema said as she calls for “global solidarity” to tackle the crisis.

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Phytonix Corporation (“Phytonix” or “Px”) is an industrial biotechnology company producing sustainable chemicals directly from carbon dioxide. Our patented process employs cyanobacteria, which are the same organisms responsible for creating a breathable atmosphere on Earth and that contributed greatly to the genesis of our miraculous blue planet. Phytonix’s objective is to be the global leader in bio-safe, direct solar chemical production utilizing carbon dioxide as the sole feedstock for the cyanobacteria along with energy from the Sun. Phytonix and its partners utilize a collaborative and distributed business model with a capital-light strategy, based upon circular economy principles, to produce a variety of renewable chemicals from carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water via patented photobiological and genomics technology.