Performance Plants Investment Opportunities

Founded in 1995, Performance Plants Inc. (PPI) is a world leading agricultural and biofuel biotechnology company. PPI is at the forefront of the development of new biotechnologies for high-value traits in commercial food and non-food crops.

The company sits in a vanguard position in the multi-billion dollar food and alternative fuel industries that will shape our world in the future in light of an aggressive USA mandate for sustainable biofuels, tight global food supplies, demand for crops that are adapted for global warming and the depletion of fresh water reserves.

Cellulosic ethanol from biomass is the future of the liquid transportation fuel industry. There is strong political will to push ahead with USA Energy Bill mandates for 22 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol by 2022 and the 2008 Farm Bill support for the establishment of a USA cellulosic ethanol infrastructure

In the recent 90-Billion Gallon Biofuel Deployment Study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors, the authors conclude that cellulosic ethanol will continue to ramp up to 45 billion gallons per year by 2030 and will require 215 million tons of dedicated energy crops.

PPI is actively producing superior varieties of dedicated non-food energy crops that will thrive on the marginal farmland that will be required to meet the demand for biofuel production. The company’s partnerships with industrial end-users like Lafarge North America are providing the market pull for PPI renewable feedstocks.

To complement Performance Plants’ biofuel division, the company continues to aggressively license its portfolio of high value yield and stress tolerance technologies to multinational and regional seed companies for crops that will build on the company’s established stream of technology fees.

In the foreseeable future, PPI’s technologies are poised to provide major benefits to farmers, biofuel users, the environment and agriculture in both developed and less-developed nations world-wide.