BioEnergy

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Metabolix Inc., a leader in the use of bioscience to provide sustainable, clean solutions for plastics, fuels and chemicals, and ADM, a global leader in BioEnergy and a premier agricultural processor, announced that they will jointly produce MirelNatural Plastics. Mirel is a family of high performance natural plastics that are biobased, sustainable and completely biodegradable. Metabolix and ADM are commercializing Mirel through their joint venture, Telles, named for the Roman goddess of the Earth. Telles is now building its first commercial scale plant in Clinton, Iowa. This plant is expected to start up in 2008 and will produce Mirel at an annual rate