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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Wagner Corporation

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Wagner Corporation

April 21, 2023 |

The Wagner Companies has actively been working toward implementing more green business practices since 2004, when they first participated in the Queensland Focus on Energy program. As a result, they have upgraded to more energy-efficient lighting; and hot-water boiler and air compressor systems. They also offer products and components that qualify for LEED credits. But […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Enerkem

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Enerkem

April 18, 2023 |

Enerkem is the first company in the world to produce renewable methanol and ethanol from non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste at full commercial scale. The company’s solution replaces the use of fossil sources like petroleum and natural gas to produce sustainable transportation fuels and chemicals that are used in a broad range of everyday products. […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Alden Group

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Alden Group

April 14, 2023 |

Alden Group Renewable Energy provides sustainable solutions for edible oil wastes with a focused approach on waste to energy opportunities and a circular economy. Reducing client costs, ensuring business continuity, eliminating waste, and providing a sustainable feedstock to the rapidly growing biofuel industry are Alden’s core objectives. Alden provides customized environmental and economical solutions for […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of the Bioeconomy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of the Bioeconomy

March 30, 2023 |

The complete State of the Bioeconomy presentation — all the slides and lots of appendix slides that were not presented on stage — as delivered by Digest editor & publisher Jim Lane at ABLC 2023.  

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Greenfields vs Retrofits

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Greenfields vs Retrofits

March 23, 2023 |

Last week on the REenergize online series, we looked at the question of when to go greenfield, when to look for a retrofit or a co-location. We identified 18 key decision points, and in this presentation, we relate them back to actual companies and projects looking at those criteria to decide how to progress on […]

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Environmentalists slam use of US wood pellets for bioenergy in new report

Environmentalists slam use of US wood pellets for bioenergy in new report

September 26, 2022 |

In the UK, environmentalists have released a report alleging that “Global demand for wood pellets to burn for biomass energy – primarily in the UK and Europe – is devastating forests in the Southeast United States,” and cite what they describe as “damaging logging practices used by Enviva” in the report, which can be downloaded here. The report […]

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Monster of the Midway: The LanzaJet, Marquis to build 120mgy SAF project in Illinois

Monster of the Midway: The LanzaJet, Marquis to build 120mgy SAF project in Illinois

February 10, 2022 |

LanzaJet and Marquis Sustainable Aviation Fuel signed an MOU to construct a 120 million gallons per year integrated sustainable fuels plant in the U.S. using low-carbon intensity feedstocks to produce sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel via the LanzaJet Alcohol-to-Jet process. The plant will employ on-site carbon capture and sequestration and renewable energy to produce […]

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Biodiesel Progress, Policy, Plans: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Biodiesel

Biodiesel Progress, Policy, Plans: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Biodiesel

January 24, 2022 |

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Bioplastics: Re-shaping the future of our planet

Bioplastics: Re-shaping the future of our planet

January 24, 2022 |

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TU Graz researchers produce high purity hydrogen from real biogas

TU Graz researchers produce high purity hydrogen from real biogas

November 9, 2021 |

In Austria, researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) are continuing the Biogas2H2 project. In one of the world’s largest industry-related demonstration plants, they produce high-purity hydrogen directly at an existing biogas plant from real biogas, which includes all the impurities that are present in the gas. The project is funded by the Austrian Research […]

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