The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 0.80 percent to 60.59 as large caps dipped. For the day, Ceres (CERE) retreated 6.19 percent to $3.79, while Solazyme (SZYM) rebounded 3.54 percent to $6.72. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) dropped 7.41 percent to $6.00. Overall, declines led advances 3 to 2 […]
Ceres and Syngenta sign a major deal to stimulate sweet sorghum adoption. Brazilian producers seek paths for expanding ethanol production. What are sorghum’s chances of being the darling of the expansion story? In California, Ceres announced that it has signed a sweet sorghum market development agreement with Syngenta. The companies will work together to support […]
In Brazil, Reuters is reporting that Raizen CEO Vasco Dias is projecting that the Shell-Cosan joint venture will begin producing commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol in 2014 at its Costa Pinto plant in Piracicaba in Sao Paulo state. Construction is expected to cost $90 million and capacity of the project is expected to be 10.58 million gallons […]
In New York, according to Transparency Market Research’s “Synthetic and Bio-Based Biodegradable Plastics – Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Applications, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2011 – 2018”, the global synthetic and bio-based biodegradable plastics market was worth USD 2.3 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 7.8 billion in 2018, growing at a […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.66 percent to 61.08 as advanced biofuels stocks recovered. For the day, Ceres (CERE) surged 15.76 percent to $4.04, while Solazyme (SZYM) sunk 5.67 percent to $6.49. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) dropped 6.25 percent to $1.50. Overall, advances led declines 2 to […]
Primus Green Energy looks to an improved syngas-to-gasoline process as a renewable fuel game-changer. Back in the 1970s energy crisis, the Brazilian government now (famously) marched down their path towards energy independence via ethanol produced from sugarcane – but it is less well known that the New Zealand government embarked on a unique program of […]
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, […]
Address: 51 Alpha Park, Highland Heights, OH 44143 Year founded: 2007 Type of technology: Phycal is developing an integrated production system based on its patent pending technologies for growing algae and extracting energy products, primarily algal oil. Phycal is focused on delivering energy products at a market-competitive price. Algal oil can be converted into […]
Address: 3225 Investment Blvd. Hayward, CA. 94545 Company description: Aurora Algae (formerly known as Aurora Biofuels) is a producer of high-performance, premium algae-based products for the pharmaceutical, nutrition, aquaculture and fuels markets. Business: Aurora burst onto the scene in June 2008 with the announcement that it had raised $20 million in series A financing from Oak […]
In Michigan, Algal Scientific Corporation took home the $500,000 cash grand prize at the 2012 Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. Algal won the price for their work in removing nutrient pollutants such as biological oxygen demand, nitrogen and phosphorus, from high strength municipal and industrial wastewater. At the same time, the company’s technology produces algal biomass […]
