About

Our vision comes from seeds of opportunity: the opportunity to provide the global energy market with a sustainable, economically viable source of high-quality plant oil that reduces carbon emissions, preserves ecosystems and has a positive economic impact on local communities.

SG Biofuels is a bioenergy crop company that is meeting global demand for sustainable plant oil by using breeding and biotechnology to produce elite hybrid seeds of Jatropha. With a fully integrated platform featuring a world-class leadership and science team, the most advanced crop improvement program in the industry and partnerships addressing the complete value chain, SG Biofuels is bringing the opportunities of Jatropha to reality.

SG Biofuels has been named one of the Top 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest for two consecutive years and one of the Top 100 emerging clean tech companies by Always On. Its JMax Jatropha Optimization Platform™ was named the 2010 Feedstock Domestication Project of the Year by Biofuels Digest.

• The company’s breeding and crop improvement program includes the largest, most diverse library of Jatropha genetic material in the world with over 12,000 unique accessions, tested in a range of climatic and agronomic conditions. The library includes extensive phenotypical diversity including traits impacting yield and input costs.
• SG Biofuels has enabled the cost-effective scaling of large Jatropha plantations through the development of a proprietary technology for Jatropha hybrid seed production. Hybrid seeds result in greater yield, uniformity and vigor while significantly reducing handling and deployment costs.

World-Class Investors and Alliances

SG Biofuels’ fully-integrated platform is significantly enhanced through landmark investments from Flint Hills Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc., and Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a global biotechnology tools company.

Flint Hills Resources, LLC: is an experienced leader in the processing and handling of petroleum, petrochemicals and ethanol products. This alliance provides strong validation of the global economic opportunity presented by Jatropha and offers the downstream expertise of a petroleum, chemical and biofuel leader.

Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE): a global biotechnology tools company with sales of $3.3 billion in sales and more than 3,000 Ph.D.’s worldwide. Their investment and partnership with SG Biofuels forms the industry’s most advanced Jatropha genetic program allowing for the rapid introduction of new commercial traits targeted toward increasing yield, reducing input costs and driving greater profitability. The partnership has successfully completed sequencing the Jatropha genome.

Our strategic alliance with Bunge North America (NYSE: BG) provides access to the expertise of the largest oilseed processor in the world to research and develop a model to process Jatropha seeds.