In France, Global Bioenergies and Synthos announced the discovery of a direct biological pathway to convert renewable resources into butadiene, a light olefin lying at the heart of the petrochemical industry. Presently, 10 million tons of butadiene are produced each year from oil, representing a market exceeding $20 billion. 7 million tons are used to […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, shed 0.24 percent to 61.28 as advanced biofuels dipped. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) retreated 2.15 percent to $2.73, while Gevo (GEVO) gave up 3.25 percent to $1.49. Among other equities, Rentech (RTK) advanced 1.77 percent to $2.87. Overall, declines led advances 6 to […]
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
Locations: Rapid City – SD and Upton – WY, United States São Paulo – SP, Brazil Company description: Converting sugarcane bagasse into lignin Blue Sugars is now commercializing its process technology to companies in the global sugarcane industry. In April 2012, Blue Sugars licensed its technology to Petrobras SA, Brazil’s largest company and one of […]
Address: Biotech & Renewables Center, Staffelseestr. 6, 81477 München, Germany Year Founded: 1995 Annual Revenues: CHF 7.4 billion (2011) Company description: Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company, based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide and employed 22 149 employees on December 31, 2011. In the financial year 2011, […]
Address: Nattermannallee 1, 50982 Cologne, Germany Year Founded: 2008 Annual Revenues: 2.0 M Euro Company description: Direvo, focuses on the emerging biomass conversion industry, identifying bottlenecks and weaknesses in current industrial processes in this sector. The company develops biology-based solutions and implement those for our partners and customers, which include industrial companies both large and […]
Company description: Dyadic International, Inc. is a global biotechnology company that uses its patented and proprietary technologies to conduct research, development and commercial activities for the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of products and solutions for the bioenergy, industrial enzyme and biopharmaceutical industries. Address: 140 Intracoastal Pointe Drive Suite 404 Jupiter, Florida 33477 Year founded: […]
Company description: Genera Energy is a for-profit limited liability company wholly owned by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. Genera provides a vehicle to leverage state and federal funding with private research and development investments, strategic partnerships and collaborations to further research, economic development and clean energy objectives. Genera is focused on developing integrated […]
Address: 2929 7th Street, Suite 120 Berkeley, CA 94710 Year Founded: 2011 Company description: Lygos develops high-efficiency, novel processes to produce renewable chemicals by using our expertise in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Lygos is a spin-off from the lab of Professor Jay Keasling, Director of the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, CA Major Investors: […]
By Mackinnon Lawrence There are few topics that get the clean technology sector excited less than trash. Meanwhile, the news is littered with stories discussing municipal areas from Zimbabwe to Los Angeles and Mumbai to Moscow struggling to implement long-term strategies for dealing with municipal solid waste (MSW). Even as intellectual capital is thrown at […]
