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Verenium reports second-quarter loss

  • Advocate business staff
  • Published: Aug 7, 2008 - UPDATED: 2 p.m.

Biofuels groundbreaker Verenium Corp. today reported a net loss of $16.4 million, or 26 cents per share, for the second quarter. A year earlier, the firm reported a net loss of $55.2 million, or $1.13 per share

The company reported a net loss of $39.7 million, or 64 cents, for the first half of 2008. That compares to $65.5 million, or $1.36 per share, a year earlier.

On Wednesday, the company announced a partnership with BP and $90 million investment that will help accelerate the commercial production of cellulosic ethanol, or ethanol made from things like sugar cane waste, switchgrass and other non-food products.

Verenium’s stock traded this morning at $3.42 per share, up 10 cents.


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