What’s My Feedstock Worth? A primer for measuring bio-value
What’s it worth? It’s the cry of a thousand fortune-hunters combing garage sales and close-out auctions this spring. Whether you are owner or seller,...
Butamax’s back on the radar and Kansas is the place
BP and DuPont’s JV Butamax, acquires Nesika Energy ethanol plant, heads for commercial-scale biobutanol
In Delaware, the BP/DuPont joint venture Butamax has acquired the 10...
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In: Anellotech, Edeniq, Novvi
The old Christmas carol goes, “I saw three ships come sailing in,” and those perched on a widow’s walk this morning might have espied...
“Brexit is the impetus to reinvigorate”: The advanced bioeconomy, resilience and the new role...
“Brexit serves as an impetus to reinvigorate the Commonwealth,” Commonwealth head and Maltese Prime Minister Dr. Joseph Muscat told the delegates at the Commonwealth...
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad RFS? The Story of Tesoro and the Three...
Here is a link to a thought-provoking document that you might like to read - the sad tale of how oil refiners reacted in...
What happened? Pyrolysis breakthrough could cut drop-in biofuels cost to $2.58 per gallon
We have a breakthrough in pyrolysis to report today that could reduce the estimated cost of producing fuel from $3.27 per gallon to $2.58...
The Digest’s 2017 Guide to the 20 Top European biorefinery projects
You won't hear it from the NGOs orbiting Brussels who have long figured out that bashing biotechnology is good for the fund-raising cash register,...
Market access: Industry grips with E15’s future in key Senate hearing
In Washington, hearings took place today on the future of E15 ethanol in the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on S. 517,...
Unstash that Trash: Material(s) progress in making fuels, chemicals from Municipal solid waste
News this week arrived from Canada that Enerkem has received the lowest carbon intensity value ever issued by the British Columbia Ministry of Energy...
FHR unveils a $50M gambit to make Überprotein at ethanol plants
In Nebraska, Flint Hills Resources will invest more than $50M in its Fairmont, Neb. ethanol plant to install a new technology that will produce...