In Florida, BioNitrogen Corp announced that it received approval from the Board of County Commissioners of Hardee County on Thursday, November 1, 2012 for the Florida Development Finance Corporation to issue up to $150 million in bonds for the construction of the Hardee County plant. Construction on the site is slated to commence in early […]
In California, Ceres announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development has expanded its grant to the company to develop traits in rice for Asia. Based on Ceres’ success to date, USAID will provide an additional $3.5 million to Ceres over the next four years to extend field trialing and development of the company’s biotech […]
In Michigan, a research team led by Michigan State’s Bruce Dale, writing in the November 2012 issue of Biomass & Bioenergy, that they believe that a lifecycle analysis approach to ILUC requires replacing the nutritional functions of the crops grown on the land, not the crops themselves. This functional approach to ILUC reduces the calculated […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.87 percent to 61.72 as advanced biofuels retreated. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) soared 6.91 percent to $2.94 , while Coexis (CDXS) plummeted 6.30 percent to $2.23. Among other equities, Syntroleum (SYNM) shed 4.69 percent to $0.61. Overall, advances led declines 3 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, […]
“Pack Up Your (renewable fuel) Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag”, say Berkeley researchers, who transform an old WWI-era process into a route to renewable diesel. If the Digest possessed a magic wand and could change just one thing about the production of biofuels in the United States – it would be to give the […]
In Minnesota, BioAmber followed up yesterday’s announcement by Mitsubishi by reporting BioAmber will be the supplier of biobased succinic acid to the Faurecia-Mitsubishi Chemical partnership for the production of automotive plastics. This is in response to environmental constraints associated with vehicle weight reduction and the regulations intended to increase the recyclability of materials used in […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 0.92 percent to 62.26 as large caps sagged. For the day, Codexis (CDXS) plunged 11.85 percent to $2.38, while Verenium (VRNM) recovered 5.22 percent to $2.62. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) leapt 10.00 percent to $2.75 Overall, declines led advances 3 to 1 […]
Address: 4900 Hopyard Road Suite 200 Pleasanton, CA 94588 Year founded 2007 Company description: Fulcrum design, develop, own and will operate facilities that convert sorted, post-recycled municipal solid waste, or MSW, into ethanol. Fulcrum have entered into long-term, fixed, zero-cost MSW feedstock agreements which will provide us with a significant competitive advantage over companies using alternative […]
Based in: Brazil Business: Oil and gas producer with sugarcane ethanol and biodiesel operations. Model: State-owned operator. Announced that it was not seeking to acquire distressed ethanol companies but would establish partnerships where appropriate to support development of the national ethanol industry. According to Petrobras management, the state oil giant would offer a guaranteed ethanol […]
