Cathay Industrial Biotech

Cathay Industrial Biotech has been a pioneering industrial biotechnology company with commercial-scale production since 2003.

Founded in 1997, Cathay is a leading industrial biotechnology company whose focus is exclusively on developing and commercializing economically viable industrial biotechnology solutions for the production of specialty chemicals, previously obtainable only by chemical routes. The results are cost-competitive specialty chemicals, many of which are renewable and have a significantly lower environmental production footprint. In addition, industrial biotechnology can economically produce a variety of chemicals that were unobtainable by traditional production chemistries. Cathay has developed and commercialized bio-production technology for long chain diacids, bio-butanol and now 1,5-pentanediamine (DN-5). Cathay has the distinction of being the first, and currently only, industrial biotechnology company to gain a majority share of a global market from the chemically produced incumbents.