OTTAWA — “The Inflation Reduction Act changed everything” is the headline comment as Canada’s leading bioeconomy event, Jeff Passmore’s Scaling Up 2023 got underway in its traditional home at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier, but nothing else was traditional as speakers grappled with spiraling Canadian emissions, the unique demand in cold Canada for heat as well as […]
This week on the Digest webinar stage, we looked at solving the critical shortage of fermentation capacity. FERMWORX, LLC, based in Columbus, Georgia, is a fermentation company that specializes in high quality biopolymers and bio-based fermentation products produced in the United States. FermWorx’s Jon Getzinger presented these slides on the company’s promise and progress.
IRA, everyone has heard about it — what does it mean? The IRA has been billed as the largest clean energy infrastructure investment in United States history. It allotted $370B to the development and promotion of clean energy solutions. The IRA is designed to include both supply and demand side incentive programs. In our industry […]
Origin is the world’s leading carbon negative materials company. The Origin platform turns the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, while eliminating the need for fossil resources and capturing carbon in the process. Origin Co-CEO John Bissell took us through the hard data and company horizons with these slides presented at ABLC Next 2023.
HTL represents a processing technology that precludes the need to evaporate or dry the waste feed prior to conversion to fuel. In fact HTL requires that the feed be aqueous. HTL enables the conversion of the organic components in the feed to bio-oil and bio-gas. Merrick’s Chris Biodillo gave these slides at ABLC Next 2023 […]
In the world of the bioeconomy, USA BioEnergy CEO Nick Andrews is known as “the guy with the cowboy hat”. He’s almost never seen without it, on the sidelines of ABLC or other major events. He’s the Tim McGraw of the bioeconomy. I caught up with Nick as the historic 680 million gallons offtake deal […]
The participants in the Sydney meeting of the Bold Goals Action Group, a coalition of the willing working to accelerate the rate of deployment in the advanced bioeconomy, issued the following Communique: The initial meeting of the Bold Goals Action Group was held in Sydney on 22 September 2023. It involved leaders of companies and […]
In San Francisco on the sidelines of the ABLC NEXT 2023 meeting, a coalition of the willing called the Bold Goals Action Group outlined a series of 31 Bold Actions that must be taken by industry and government in order to achieve the global timelines for Net Zero economies that address climate change and the […]
Special to The Digest The current landscape and prospects of the corn ethanol industry was the focus of the 9th edition of TECO Latin America, hosted by Novozymes, the leader in biosolutions and producers of enzymes and yeast for the corn ethanol sector worldwide. TECO Latin America is the leading event in the Latin American […]
The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium is a National Laboratory-led effort, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, that is dedicated to identifying and overcoming separations challenges associated with the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. This Consortium’s work is helping to reduce bioprocess separations costs, which can account for up to 50-70% […]
