As the biobased revolution moves into the commercialization stage, new products and enabling technologies continue to surface that offer tantalizing opportunities. In recent months, there has been so much emphasis on companies moving from the development to commercialization stages — not least companies like Solazyme, Gevo, Amyris, KiOR and Ceres going through the IPO process […]
In Germany, Evonik Industries plans to build a facility for the biotechnology production of Biolys in the Brazilian town of Castro in the state of Paraná. Biolys is a biotechnology product made from renewable resources, is globally known as a highly effective source of L-lysine for animal feed. The plant will be built at a […]
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The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 1.04 percent to 64.16 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) jumped 4.15 percent to $7.78, while KiOR (KIOR) climbed 7.75 percent to $8.76. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) leapt 5.62 percent to $13.54. Overall, advances led declines 9 to 5 […]
Declining ethanol margins and plant idlings; ethanol price gloom; controversy over RFS2 targets. Despair? Bah! It all spells “opportunity” for the intrepid ethanolista. This week in biofuels, two storylines that have been gaining a lot of attention have been the declining margins and plant slowdowns and shutdowns in the US corn ethanol sector, and the […]
In California, OriginOil, in a note to supporters and shareholders, said that the company’s platform technology, which separates solids from liquids in a single pass, without the use of chemicals, has multiple market implications. The company identified: the Algae Market, projected to grow to $1.6 billion by 2015; the Produced Water Market, with a potential […]
In Tennessee, BioDimensions Delta BioRenewables announced a strategic equity investment from Epec Biofuels Holdings. Epec’s investment, it said, will allow the company to install a demonstration sweet sorghum semi-works processing facility at Agricenter International in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as resources to accelerate technology and market development for sweet sorghum industrial sugars and co-products. Epec […]
In Italy, Beta Renewables announced that it won the ACHEMA 2012 Innovation Award in the category of Biotechnology for its PROESA technology. Over 100 companies applied for awards in ten categories. Winners were picked according to innovation, usability, quality, efficiency and economy. PROESA is the technology that will be used at the world’s first commercial-scale […]
In Brazil, UNCTAD organized a biofuels panel on the eve of the official opening of the Rio+20 global development summit, which it said was aimed at exploring new sustainable and socially inclusive biofuels experiences in developing and least developed countries. Least Developed Countries score the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the […]
In India, botanist Naheed Ahmad of Patna University and physicist colleague Seema Sharma of AN College are working together to exploit the skin of pomegranates as a reducing agent for making silver nanoparticles. The team says their approach to these widely researched and technologically invaluable nanoparticles represents a more environmentally benign method than the use […]
