Address: 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA Year founded 2003 Company description: Amyris is an integrated renewable chemicals and fuels company founded in 2003 and based in Emeryville, CA, with additional operations in Chicago, IL and Campinas, Brazil. Amyris has over 400 employees, with three-quarters of its employees located in the United States. Amyris subsidiaries include […]
Address: 225 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Year founded 2003 Company description: Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s renewable products can replace or enhance oils derived from the world’s three existing sources – […]
Fungi, mold, mildrew – time to roll back the “eew, yuk, ack, blech, and gak” and roll out the red carpet. Turns out that fungi may be your very best biofuelsian buddies. Bacteria, algae, yeast — there’s so much development around these platforms that sometimes we wonder if that’s how San Francisco and environs became […]
By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, BIO Industrial & Environmental Section It is not often I disagree or take issue with Biofuels Digest; however, the recent article and analysis on cellulosic tax credits left out some key points. There are a number of policy tools to help the biofuels industry compete with entrenched incumbents and […]
In Canada, IBEX Technologies has acquired Bio-Research Products, an Iowa-based maker of specialized reagents. BRP specializes in the production of enzymes, lectins, protease inhibitors, organics, substrates and assay solutions for diagnostic, industrial and research use. Manufacturing is conducted in 10,000 sq. ft. facility with fermentation capability up to 300L. The shareholders of BRP will receive […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.78 percent to reach a 3-month high of 67.02 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) rocketed up 19.78 percent to $2.18, while Biox (BX.TO) plunged 23.08 percent to $0.50. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) rose 6.40 percent to $2.66. Overall, […]
$4/gallon capex, low opex, $15 million upfront. Existing offtakers. Cellulosic RINs. Expandable. Product diversification. Operating next year. What’s not to like? So, you’re an ethanol producer, and you’d like to improve returns, create more certainty for your investors this year, or access higher-price markets. In so many ways, cellulosic ethanol sure looks like a good idea, […]
Oil Majors, capacity building shortfalls, green diesel, waste to energy, and sustainability on the radar for 2013 By Mackinnon Lawrence Despite a relatively down year with respect to investment and production capacity expansion, the biofuels industry grew modestly in 2012, continuing a shift from first generation facilities to next generation, advanced biorefineries. Although it was […]
In Washington, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be a Special Honored Guest at the Environmental & Clean Energy Inaugural Ball to be held later this month in Washington. Building on the success of 6 previous Inaugural Balls, a wide range of environmental and clean energy organizations are working together to host the event that will […]
In Colorado, “Blue Sun will immediately invest payments from credits earned in 2012 to advance our next generation biofuel technologies,” said Leigh Freeman, CEO of Blue Sun. Biodiesel. “We’ll use this opportunity to meet the intent of incentive programs such as the biodiesel tax credit and fully commercialize our emerging technologies to better the industry.” […]
