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50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Complete candidate profiles and company registration information

The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings  for 2009-10 will be released Tuesday, 12/1.

Rules and procedures
Register your company
Candidate profiles
Aquaflow Bionomic
Balboa Pacific
BARD
Bioalgene
BioFuelBox
Biolight Harvesting
Blue Marble Energy
BlueFire Ethanol
BP Biofuels
Ceres
Chemrec
Cobalt Biofuels
Codexis
Comet Biorefining
Continental Technologies
Coskata
Diversified Energy
DSM White Biotechnology
Dynamic Fuels
Dynamotive
EdeniQ
Enerkem
Enhanced Biofuels
Fulcrum BioEnergy
Genencor
GeoSynFuels
Gevo
GlycosBio
Ineos Bio
Joule Biotechnologies
KL Energy
LS9
LanzaTech
Martek
Mascoma
Novozymes
Piedmont Biofuels
Plankton Power
POET
Praj Industries
PureVision Technology
Range Fuels
Raven Biofuels
Remediation Earth
Remfuel
Renewable Energy Group
Rentech
SEKAB
SG Biofuels
Solazyme
Sriya Innovations
StormFisher Biogas
Qteros
Terrabon
Targeted Growth
ThermoChem Recovery
TMO [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: first ballots received; subscriber voting to begin November 16

In Florida, Biofuels Digest offered an update on voting procedures for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings, and said that it has commenced receiving ballots back from its international panel of selectors.
SELECTOR PANEL VOTING
Selector voting will close on November 23, 2009.
SUBSCRIBER VOTING
Subscriber voting will commence on November 16, 2009, and continue through November 25th.
ANNOUNCEMENT [...]

Zeachem to commence construction of cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant before year end

In Oregon, Zeachem announced that it will commence construction of its cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in Boardman before the end of the year, but added that, as the company is doing modular design and fabricating process components in fabrication shops and integrating those pieces on site, official groundbreaking at the Port of Morrow will take [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and Codexis

What Do You Have To Know?
Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Obtaining Vital Information
As your company’s CEO or a member of the senior management team, of course you know what your company’s technology is.  But…do your employees understand the processes well enough to explain them to anyone who asks about these processes?
Every person in your company [...]

POET: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

POET
Based in: South Dakota
2008-09 ranking: 4

Business: Largest private first generation ethanol producer; developer of cellulosic ethanol technology (using corn cobs as a feedstock).

Model: Owner-operator, holding minority stakes in most of its plants, with local investors.

Past milestones:
1. Opening of the company’s pilot cellulosic plant in Scotland, SD, producing cellulosic ethanol at a rate of [...]

The song remains the same: Bioenergy producers plea for US help on finance; feedstock stability a key; solutions in the student loan response?

In Washington, USDA Agriculture Undersecretary Dallas Tonsager said in congressional testimony that the credit crunch for advanced biofuels developers has much to do with lender disaffection with first-generation ethanol following the VeraSun bankruptcy, and the upside down economics of the 2008-09 feedstock and fuel markets. He also said that, while two more USDA loan guarantees [...]

Cargill picks up unfinished 110 Mgy Altra ethanol plant in Nebraska in auction

In Nebraska, Cargill won the auction for the assets of the as-yet uncompleted 110 Mgy Altra Nebraska ethanol facility in Carleton.
According to a Cargill statement, construction on the Altra facility began in 2006 and was approximately half complete in November 2007 when work stopped after its owners were unable to secure additional financing. Cargill will [...]

Ethanol crush spread strengthens after corn falls, ethanol flat, oil rising

In Illinois, corn retreated from last week’s high prices, while oilis rising and ethanol was flat — another strong wee for the ethanol “crush spread” between the price of corn and ethanol.
For the week, the December corn contract finished at $3.66, down $0.31 for the week, while ethanol was at $1.935, down $0.02 for the [...]

Continental Technologies: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Continental Technologies
Based in: Colorado
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Continental Technologies specializes in pilot plant fabrication, focusing on fuels (including synthetic and biofuels), catalysts, chemicals and polymers process technology development and scale-up. The company has experience with equipment for virtually every fuels relevant process – gasification, pyrolysis, hydrotreating, fermentation, Fischer Tropsch synthesis, transesterification – as well as [...]

Biofuels Heaven or Hell: Hot technologies, deep-pocketed investors and stable feedstock outlook brings promise after tough times

Generally recognized “hot technologies”, deep-pocketed investors, and a plentiful supply of raw material at stable prices: a recipe for growth in almost any industrial sector, but something felt to be elusive in the biofuels sector — with a general feeling that solar and battery technologies had received more attention, investors were hard to find and [...]