as well as enables the second wave of industrial bioproducts, such as bio-plastics, surfactants, plasticizers, adhesives, coalescent solvents, and other compounds for specialty chemical applications. Its chemistries offer various opportunities for product enablement and synergies for industries engaged in the processing of starch and sugar crops; processing of wood, cellulose, and paper pulp; chemical processing of vegetable oils; manufacturing of biodiesel; and the manufacturing of linear alpha-olefins and other compounds. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.