The Philippene Ambassador visits BioTork
BioTork LLC had the esteemed pleasure of hosting H.E. Jose Cuisia, Jr., Philippine Ambassador to the United States at BioTork’s facilities.
Ambassador H.E. Jose Cuisia, Jr., and Eudes de Crécy, CEO of BioTork (from left)
BioTork, LLC had the esteemed pleasure of hosting H.E. Jose Cuisia, Jr., Philippine Ambassador to the United States at BioTork’s facilities.
The main objective of Ambassador Cuisia’s visit which took place end of June was to learn more about BioTork’s technology and how it can be utilized to develop industrially robust strains of micro-organisms that are capable of turning “waste”, otherwise known to BioTork as agro-industrial byproducts, into high-value commodities. The Philippines produces at least 5 million metric tons of agricultural and industrial byproducts annually.
BioTork’s scientific approach succeeds in efficiently converting low-value agro-industrial byproducts into economically essential and highly valued products. This will result in waste reduction, support of rural development by providing farmers with supplemental income, and an increased production of various and necessary animal feed, thus improving the use of existing “waste”.
BioTork’s ongoing microbial strain development, targeted to convert agro-industrial byproducts into high value commodities, started with the support of the State of Hawaii, USDA-PBARC, and their joint initiation of a “Zero Waste Program”.
“BioTork is extremely pleased to have evoked interest from the Philippine government in our research and development, as we believe it will greatly benefit any country facing the many arduous challenges associated with a fast-growing economy, such is the case in the Philippines. We are happy to have been given the opportunity to showcase our technologies and some of our strains, which have already been evolved for use with tropical agricultural byproducts from Hawaii and South America” (Eudes de Crecy, CEO).
ABOUT BIOTORK
Created in 2008, BioTork LLC is a biotechnology company, based in Gainesville, FL. BioTork develops microbial strains capable of converting low-value abundant biomass streams into high bio-based chemical commodities. The robustness of the strains developed as well as the robustness of the entire bioconversion process is what makes BioTork’s technology unique and outstanding. Further information on BioTork is available on the internet at www.biotork.com.
