In California, Cereplast’s Hybrid 651D has won the MATERIALICA Design Technology 2012 silver award for outstanding innovation in the “Material” category. The awards ceremony took place in Munich, Germany at the 15th annual trade fair, MATERIALICA—Lightweight Design for New Mobility, on the evening of October 23. Cereplast Hybrid 651D was the sole bioplastic material to […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged up 0.26 percent to close at 62.09 as large caps recovered. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) soared another 5.35 percent to $6.50, while Algae.Tec (AEB.AX) lost 3.45 percent to $0.28. Among other equities, Cosan (CZZ) gained 2.81 percent to $16,12. Overall, advances led […]
Company description: INEOS Bio is a BioEnergy company commercializing and licensing its novel thermo-chemical and bio-chemical technology for the production of renewable biofuels and renewable energy from a wide range of low-cost carbon materials. The company’s initial focus is the commercialization of its leading third-generation ethanol technology process to serve the global renewable fuels and […]
Address: 1 St James’s Square, London, SW1Y 4PD. UK. Year founded BP Biofuels was set up in 2006. BP p.l.c. celebrated its centenary in 2009. Company description: BP Biofuels is a leading global biofuels player, with a breadth of investment that is unique in terms of both its scale and its reach. Since 2006, BP […]
Company description: Beta Renewables — a subsidiary of Chemtex, and Grupo M&G — has developed and deployed a low-cost cellulosic biofuels technology, known as PROESA. Chemtex employs approximately 1000 staff located in key centers throughout the world – Tortona and Rivalta in Italy, Wilmington, NC and Sharon Center, OH in the USA, Shanghai and Beijing […]
BP to focus U.S. biofuels investments on R&D, technology licensing. What happened? What’s next? In Florida, BP announced it is canceling plans to build a 36 million gallon commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. The company said that it would refocus its US biofuels strategy on R&D, as well as licensing its industry–leading biofuels […]
By Robert Rapier, Energy Trends Insider This week a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) announced that they were producing gasoline from thin air. The raw materials for their process reportedly being literally air and water. A company spokesman explained: “We haven’t broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics or anything. We take carbon, we […]
In South Dakota, POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels has contracted with International Technology Group ANDRITZ, through its U.S. subsidiary ANDRITZ Inc., to supply a two-step biomass treatment process for the commercial-scale cellulosic bio-ethanol plant under construction in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The ANDRITZ technology is a two-stage process that includes a vertical reactor, an interstage washer and then the […]
In Texas, Raymond James energy analyst Pavel Molchanov writes, “Contrary to a flawed news article, Columbus is on track. The stock has been on a wild ride, jumping from $6.50 in June to $9 in September only to fall back down to the $5 level over the past week. As we noted in our KiOR […]
In California, Biodico announced signing a new agreement with the U.S. Navy for the development and evaluation of advanced biofuels and bioenergy. The collaboration between the Navy and Biodico will optimize the operation of sustainable biorefineries producing renewable petroleum diesel equivalent liquid fuels, bio-based products and energy using renewable resources at Department of Defense (DoD) […]
