A spin out company, C3 Bio-Technologies Ltd, 
was incorporated to utilise synthetic biology to facilitate the production of propane. The company seeks to develop an economically-sustainable manufacturing process for full-scale bio-propane production and brings together two long-standing specialists from Biotechnology research, Professor Nigel Scrutton director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and SYNBIOCHEM, and the LPG industry, Michael Smith director of Pressure Tech Transport Services Ltd a specialist regional supplier of LPG. New website
Research paper on the development of synthetic pathways for renewable biosynthesis of propane can be found here.