Address: One Pine Hill Drive Batterymarch Park II Quincy, MA 02169 Year Founded: 2008 Company description: Myriant is building a global renewable chemicals company. Our innovative technology platform produces “green” chemicals from renewable feedstocks that are cost competitive without requiring a green premium. These green chemicals “drop-in” to chemical manufacturing processes to displace chemicals derived […]
Renewable Energy Group is North America’s largest biodiesel manufacturer and marketer. Utilizing an integrated supply chain model, Renewable Energy Group is focused on converting triglycerides into advanced biofuels. With more than 212 million gallons of owned/operated annual production capacity REG is a proven partner in the distillate marketplace. Address: 416 S. Bell Ave, Ames IA […]
In California, a research collaboration between Mayaterials, Inc. and Wadham Energy LP, processing agricultural waste, has developed an environmentally friendly and more cost effective route to producing ultra-pure polysilicon feedstock for use in photovoltaic and electronics applications than any other approach to date. The project has recently produced polysilicon feedstock of approximately 6N purity (99.9999%) […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.49 to 58.81 as enzymes dropped again. For the day, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared 6.45 percent to $0.33, while Solazyme (SZYM) plunged 7.82 percent to $7.19. Among other equities, Novozymes (NZMB) shed 2.27 percent to $25.78. Overall, declines led advances 7 to 6 […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the agency has not found evidence to support a finding of severe “economic harm” that would warrant granting a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The decision is based on economic analyses and modeling done in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. […]
In Germany, Direvo Industrial Biotechnology GmbH is commercializing its BluConTM platform for complete, one-step conversion of non-food feedstocks to carbohydrates used in the production of fuels and chemicals. BluCon converts various non-food biomass ranging from grasses and straw to agricultural and wood residues and can therefore be applied around the globe. From an end product […]
Why is ATJ experiencing NSF, possibly DOA, and certainly not yet RFTO (AFAIK), as skeptics are (FYI) ROFL? It’s NLACM. By now it must be universally understood that it’s tough to run a business that processes $10 bills into $5 bills, no matter what economies of scale you reach – and no matter what the […]
By Sam A. Rushing, President, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Background Perhaps the most logical approach to boosting revenues from biofuels projects, that being those which yield a CO2 by-product, such as fermentation, is the recovery, and subsequent refinement, and properly assessing the best suited market for the commodity. The same is applicable to the other so-called […]
In Washington, the RFA’s Geoff Cooper reports that, according to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 824,000 barrels per day – or 34.61 million gallons daily. That is down 3,000 b/d from the week before. The 4-week average for ethanol production stood at 819,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 12.56 billion gallons. Overall, gasoline demand […]
In Minnesota, Biogenic Reagents has completed construction and initiated commercial production at its $30 million facility in Marquette, Michigan. The company’s flagship production facility has the capacity to process 300,000 tons per year of biomass into carbon products. Initial products include activated carbon with applications for air and water purification and control of mercury and […]
