Leading companies in China are Longlive company, Shandong, http://www.longlive.cn/, which develops C-5, C-6 product lines from biomass, without going through bioethanol, and Jinan’s Shengquan Co., http://www.shengquan.com/ which has developed five intermediates from corn cob biomass, including furfural and phenolic compounds
China Industrial Biotechnology Network, Dec. 6, 2012