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Codexis company history timeline

2002

Codexis is based in Redwood City, CA and was incorporated in 2002.

2006

Codexis won the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2006 for its work on a building block of Lipitor.

2010

It went public in April 2010 on NASDAQ, and in October, acquired Maxygen's MolecularBreeding technology portfolio.

Codexis won the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2006 for its work on a building block of Lipitor. It then won a second time in 2010 for its work with Merck & Co. on the active ingredient in Januvia.

2017

In 2017, the company entered a partnership with Tate & Lyle to provide research and development for the production of new ingredients.

2020

In June 2020, they announced a partnership with Molecular Assemblies to engineer enzymes for DNA synthesis.

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