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: 3115 Merryfield Row San Diego, CA 92121 Year founded 2007 Company description: San Diego-based Sapphire Energy is pioneering an entirely new industry – Green Crude Production – with the potential to profoundly change America’s energy and petrochemical landscape for the better. Sapphire’s products and processes in this category differ significantly from other forms of […]
Address: 200 Penobscot Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Year founded 2002 Annual Revenues: $107 million (2010) Company description: Codexis serves major worldwide markets where clean technology can make a positive economic and environmental impact. Codexis CodeEvolver ™ directed evolution technology accelerates development of high value sustainable products. Our focus is on the cost-effective conversion of […]
Address: 28100 Bonita Grande Drive, Suite 200, Bonita Springs FL 34135 Year founded: 2006 Company description: Algenol LLC is a global, development stage, industrial biotechnology company that makes biofuels and high-value industrial chemicals cost-effectively from abundant, renewable resources. Algenol uses hybrid blue-green algae and specially designed photobioreactors as a sustainable, proprietary platform for making its […]
In New York, Emerald Brand, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly office, break room and disposable products for both home and business has added 3 new items to their USDA Certified Biobased Product Line. New items include 6 and 9 inch plates, and 12 oz. bowls. Biobased products are goods composed in whole or in significant […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dumped 1.65 percent to 63.65 as advanced biofuels dropped sharply. For the day, Algae.Tec fell 6.45 percent to $0.29, while Codexis (CDXS) shed 5.07 percent to $2.81. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) plunged 7.61 percent to $5.10. Overall, declines led advances 8 to 1 […]
As drought, recession, and capital starvation form a perfect storm, will advanced biofuels be thrown under the bus? Industry leaders say that dropping biofuels production targets will not reverse impacts of the 2012 drought. Instead, it may extend a devastating drought in project capital markets. It’s been a tough, tough year for farmers and ranchers, […]
In recent years, the two-carbon (ethanol, ethyl acetate, acetic acid) and four-carbon (butanol, butadiene, butanediol) platforms have been the most highly-chased in the industry. The three-carbon platform has excellent prices and market potential, but development in proproylene, propane, and propanol (among other 3-carbon molecules) has lagged. That may change, following action on proposed grants from […]
Biofuels Digest has released the first 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, […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration said that ethanol production dropped in the past week. According to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 797,000 barrels per day (b/d) – or 33.47 million gallons daily. That is down 3,000 b/d from the week before. The 4-week average for ethanol production stood at 798,000 b/d for an annualized […]
