In Germany, Metabolix has opened a new office in office in Cologne. Located in the BioCampus Cologne life science park, the space will enable the Company to directly access the European market for biopolymers and will serve as a coordination point for its regional initiatives in renewable chemicals. The new office marks the first expansion […]
In Massachusetts, a team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Dauenhauer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a new, high-yield method of producing p-xylene, the key ingredient used to make plastic bottles from biomass. The process is inexpensive and currently creates the chemical with an efficient yield of 75-percent, using most of […]
In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted motions to allow the Advanced Biofuels Association, the American Coalition for Ethanol, the Advanced Ethanol Council, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Growth Energy, the National Biodiesel Board and the Renewable Fuels Association to intervene and address the issues that will be raised […]
In California, Genomatica announced that it has hired Jeff Lievense, Ph.D., as Executive Vice President, Process Technology. Lievense served at Amyris from December 2007 until April 2012, most recently as Executive Vice President, Process Development.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.82 percent to 69.92 as Codexis dropped following a Shell-Iogen bomb. For the day, Codexis (CDXS) fell 6.46 percent to $3.62, Shell (RDS) gained 0.36 percent to close at $71.54. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) lost 3.10 percent to $3.13. Overall, declines led […]
IPOs are struggling, all across cleantech – and the biofuels IPO queue is long and tiring. Why Kiwano countries may be in your future. And, what is a Kiwano country, anyway? So, amidst all the legislative and policy hoopla last week for advanced biofuels, including winning funding for an energy title in the US Senate’s […]
In Italy, bio-on and FLOS have presented the world’s first product made with PHAs, the 100% naturally water-biodegradable bioplastic: a Miss Sissi lamp designed in 1991 by Philippe Starck and now an icon in lighting design. Rather than the traditional polycarbonate plastic, this lamp was made with bio-on’s PHA biopolymer sourced from sugar beet and […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 70.50, up 0.03 percent despite ethanol woes. For the day, Aventine (AWRW) fell 10.71 percent to $2.50, while Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) recovered 3.91 percent to $8.23. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) fell 5.87 percent to $13.62. Overall, advances led […]
In Denmark, Novozymes has announced it expects to turn a first-quarter sales loss into a growth of 2% to 3% for the full year. Although recent sales have fallen up to 9% in local currencies, market share gains and the launch of a new enzyme has encouraged the CFO, Benny Loft. “We’ll catch up with the […]
In Switzerland, Genedata will debut its new Genedata Selector, which provides a platform for comprehensive genomic analysis (including genotype and phenotype relationships), enabling research across the entire R&D workflow in industrial biotech and specifically biofuels industries. The platform integrates genome data from microbial, fungi, and algae organisms and provides data analysis tools that enable researchers and […]
