Taurus Energy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Taurus Energy
Based in: Sweden
2008-09 rank: 30
Business: Fermentation of pentoses for ethanol production
Previous Milestones
1. Agreement with the Technical University of Lund, the Technical University Chalmers and SEKAB to run a project supported by the Swedish state Energimyndigheten. The project has the title Industrial verification of fermentation of pentoses.
2. MoU with an Indian company and [...]

November 13, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2009/10 – rules and procedures

On December 1st, the Digest will publish its annual rankings for the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy”. There have been numerous requests since the 08/09 ranking were released about how to qualify. Here’s background for 2009/2010.
1. The rankings will be published on December 1st, and are based on weighted scores. 50 percent of the score [...]

August 07, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Special Report on Cellulosic Ethanol: SEKAB assembles Euro-based research consortium for five-carbon sugar (pentose) ethanol

In Sweden, SEKAB has been assembling a research and production consortium based on fermentation of both five-carbon and six-carbon sugars. Researchers at Taurus Energy, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have joined an R&D consortium.
The president of Taurus Energy said that the group hoped to become the first to demonstrate a commercially viable [...]

January 19, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy

The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy, as ranked by Biofuels Digest for 2008-09 are:
(click on links for a collection of recent profiles and stories on each company)
1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic [...]

December 22, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 4

Sweden’s SEKAB, Taurus Energy, others form cellulosic fuels R&D partnership for five-carbon sugars

In Sweden, researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund announced an R&D agreement for the development of cellulosic fuels. The agreement is based on the Taurus yeast process for fermentation of six- and five-carbon sugars. The president of Taurus Energy said that the group hoped to become the first [...]

November 26, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

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