In Michigan, Wayne County Airport Authority will team with Michigan State University Extension to grow bioenergy crops on 1,700 acres of land belonging to Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) and Willow Run airport. A test agreement on three acres that grew oriental mustard seed and camelina is wrapping up with harvesting, refining and testing. Michigan Economic […]
In California, Verenium and Novus International announced a strategic collaboration to jointly develop and commercialize a suite of new enzyme products from Verenium’s late-stage product pipeline targeting the poultry, swine, beef, dairy, aquaculture and companion animals markets. The companies will partner equally to fund development and commercialization and share in the profits, as well as […]
In Belgium, the European Commission’s unpublished impact assessment on biofuels shows that biofuels produced from oilseeds will fail the minimum GHG thresholds no matter what ILUC factor is added as a way to counter indirect effects. By eliminating the use of oilseed-based biofuels, GHG savings could reach 70% by 2020 compared to 15% if oilseed-based […]
In Thailand, industry is pushing the government to set a clear policy on ethanol to help stabilize prices of feedstocks such as cassava. Currently 2 million metric tons of cassava are being used for ethanol production but as much as 5 million tons could be used if higher ethanol blends were mandated. Cassava prices are […]
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In Massachussets, Qteros and the University of Massachusetts Amherst announced two intellectual property (IP) advances that extend the patent estate for their unique ethanol-producing microorganism, Clostridium phytofermentans, also known as the Q Microbe. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued US Patent 7,943,363 B2 covering genetic constructs of Clostridium phytofermentans. This patent is significant […]
In India, farm minister Sharad Pawar is trying to get the Prime Minister to intervene on the on-going dispute over setting ethanol prices for the 2011/12 season. Over the past six months, 600,000 metric tons of ethanol were exported at low prices because there was no market for them, which the farm minister says should […]
In Indiana, the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) announced that ethanol industry veteran Rick Serie has joined the ACE staff as Director of Market Development, based out of the organization’s Sioux Falls office.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 0.24 percent to 84.79 as the Index continues to fall on fears of sector and global economic weakness. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) rebounded 1.09 percent to $29.62, while Amyris (AMRS) fell 2.39 percent to $29.40. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) […]
Mendel CEO Neal Gutterson talks about miscanthus, and the role of the power sector as the driver of a global supply chain for biomass. Some background on Mendel Biotechnology Last year, we described them in the Digest as one of the “16 overlooked gems in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy voting” for 2010-11. We […]
