PCI Magazine · Oct 2025
External coverage of iMicrobes’ scale-up to 100% bio-based, high-purity acrylic acid, highlighting the move from gram-scale to 20-kilogram batches and 2-liter to 1,500-liter reactors.
We design and build microbes to make chemicals greener at lower cost.
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Overview
Industrial Microbes is an Alameda-based industrial biotech company that uses synthetic biology and precision fermentation to convert renewable feedstocks such as ethanol and methane into drop-in, low-carbon materials, with 100% bio-based acrylic acid as its flagship product.
Primary product
100% bio-based acrylic acid
Founded
2014
Headquarters
1010 Atlantic Avenue Suite 102, Alameda, CA 94501-1199, USA
Team size
11-50
Industry
Biotechnology
Sub-industry
Industrial biotechnology / biomanufacturing / precision fermentation
Offices
1010 Atlantic Avenue Suite 102, Alameda, CA 94501-1199, USA
Open Positions
1 job at Industrial Microbes
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