Kalion is an early stage industrial biotech company organized around the transformation of the traditional chemical industry by providing low-cost access to glucaric acid and S-3-hydroxybutyrolactone (3-HBL) using traditional, green, fermentation technology. Glucaric acid and 3-HBL were identified as âTop Value Added Chemicals from Biomassâ and multi-billion dollar markets for use of the two chemicals are limited by cost and availability (2004 DOE report). The effective development of glucaric acid and the subsequent development at Kalion has created a high purity glucaric acid that now allows companies and researchers from other universities to fully exploited the unique properties of glucaric acid and related molecul
