Colorado Biofactory

Our growing team welcomes Dr. Phil Dwyer to lead our Sales & Marketing program to help turfgrass professionals manage thatch and organic matter with THATCHzyme. In addition to developing US and International Distributor partnerships, Phil will coordinate University research to explore ways of maximizing success with THATCHzyme and our other new novel enzyme technologies in development.

We’re #hiring a new Manufacturing Technician in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Apply today or share this post with your network.

We’re #hiring a new Manufacturing Technician in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Apply today or share this post with your network.

What’s the connection between Colorado Biofactory and this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry? Before founding Colorado Biofactory, Thaddaus Huber was a WRF Innovation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design. This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to David Baker, the founder and Director of the IPD, for his groundbreaking work in computational protein design. While at the IPD, Thaddaus witnessed the protein design revolution first hand (including the oncoming wave of AI), but saw a major challenge remained: cost effectively producing proteins at scale. At Colorado Biofactory, we take this problem head on by transforming agricultural byproducts into bioproducts that sustainably solve problems on millions of acres of turf and agriculture. Without the IPD there would be no Colorado Biofactory. We congratulate David Baker and the IPD team—past and present—on this outstanding achievement!

Thaddaeus Huber's entry into the turfgrass world happened around the dinner table when his father-in-law, Armen Suny (a familiar name to many), made mention of a disease known as thatch collapse. Knowing Thad was a PhD mushroom scientist, he charged him with an idea: "If you could extract the enzyme eating that thatch, and spray it evenly over the whole golf course... Well, you'd solve one of the biggest problems turfgrass managers face." And thus, THATCHzyme was born. Beginning with homebrews in a garage that produced a product with laccase enzyme concentrations needing high application rates, to now being able to deliver a highly concentrated, shelf stable product that can be applied at ultra low rates. Laccase has been proven in previous literature to degrade lignin, and the high concentrations THATCHZyme is able to provide has been effective in thatch management throughout their trials. After seeing the results with my own eyes, and speaking with the founders in depth over the past year, I believe in THATCHzyme. Check out their field report from the first few years of trials here: https://lnkd.in/g2h68nqp Reach out if you'd like to know more! Or head over to https://thatchzyme.com

Big news! New filtration system arrived to expand our manufacturing. This allows us to remove >95% of water from THATCHzyme and deliver a shelf stable concentrated product with an ultra low application rate. It also adds nano filtration capabilities to our quiver to concentrate bioactive mushroom metabolites. www.coloradobiofactory.com #fermentation #bioprocess #biologicals #biostimulants #biopesticides #turf #mushrooms