Solazyme,Unilever Enter Commercial Supply Agreement for Tailored Algal Oil

Solazyme, Inc.

, a renewable oil and bioproducts company, and Unilever

, one of the world's leading consumer goods companies, announced today that they have executed a commercial supply agreement for the first partnered Solazyme Tailored™ Algal Oil. The companies have been collaborating for five years on multiple projects with increasing levels of success culminating in this initial supply agreement. The agreement covers the first of Solazyme and Unilever's jointly developed tailored oils with an initial supply of at least 10,000 metric tons (MT). The oil will be produced at the Solazyme Bunge Renewable Oils facility, a joint venture of Solazyme and Bunge located at Bunge's Moema sugar mill in Brazil. Supply delivery is planned to begin in early 2014