VIA BioFuels

Revolutionizing petroleum alternatives
Houston

About VIA BioFuels

VIA BioFuels produces high-purity petroleum alternatives from non-food feedstocks, enabling billions of gallons of sustainable aviation and transportation fuels, plastics, and specialty chemicals—designed to integrate seamlessly with today’s infrastructure. VIA’s scalable technology leverages waste feedstocks from strategic partners, including dairy sidestreams, with a long-term focus on cellulosic sugars and sargassum seaweed. Initial production at VIA’s Houston facility and partner sites will generate early revenues, while global partnerships with leading oil and gas and chemical companies provide a clear path to scale. VIA will commercialize through co-manufacturing and licensing, enabling large-scale deployment via existing fermentation and refining assets.

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The biomanufacturing industry knows how to scale fermentation, but not what to make.
Fermentation capacity and feedstock supply are rapidly expanding, yet most facilities default to low-margin ethanol, wasting valuable infrastructure and missing high-value markets. Customers are demanding cost-effective, scalable alternatives to petroleum-derived molecules—not expensive “green” replacements.

VIA BioFuels closes this gap by engineering yeast to produce bio-based aromatics that phase-separate naturally during fermentation. These hydrophobic molecules can be recovered without distillation, slashing downstream processing costs and enabling seamless integration into existing assets. This allows operators to extract more value from their current infrastructure while meeting market demand for for fuels and plastic precursors.

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