In Berlin, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization came down hard on the US for their use of corn, which the new director-general, Jose Graziano da Silva, said raises corn prices all over the world. Citing a recent study in Latin America which indicates only four countries in the region could expand biofuel production without […]
In Thailand, Purac has requested that the Industry Ministry grant an import tax waiver for their lactic acid plants. The waiver would be for importing raw materals to support production. Wannarat Channukul, Industry Minister, commented that Bol had previously given such tax waivers for some new industries.
In Singapore, JOil says cutting edge science and biotechnology processes that could increase the present productivity of Jatropha from the less than 1 ton of oil/hectare to 3 tons/hectare using breeding, tissue culture and genetic engineering processes.
In Washington, Capitol Hill observers are tipping the Digest that President Barack Obama will announce his Bioeconomy Blueprint on January 28th, with a significant mention of the initiative expected in tomorrow’s State of the Union address. However, in a recent poll from GEN revealed that 50 percent of respondents thought that suggestions made in support […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 72.44 despite advanced bio gains. For the day, BP fell 1.54 percent to $44.02, while KiOR (KIOR) rose 3.19 percent to $10.69. Among other equities, Mission NewEnergy (MNEL) dropped 10.73 percent to $2.08. Overall, advances led declines 2 to 1 for […]
Aim is major player in the global biobutanol market. Is this biobutanol’s year? In the UK, Green Biologics Limited announced the merger between GBL and butylfuel Inc., a US-based renewable chemicals and biofuels company. The new company will operate under the Green Biologics name and continue to be head-quartered in Abingdon, UK with a strong […]
In California, Verdezyne was awarded U.S. Patent No. 8,093,037, titled “Engineered Microorganisms With Enhanced Fermentation Activity” for the company’s engineering of a yeast which incorporates xylose isomerase, a key enzyme in the fermentation of certain pentose (“C-5”) sugars to ethanol and other products.
In Nevada, Cal-Bay International is negotiating for the purchase of multiple non-food producing land parcels in Northwest Arizona at a cost of less than $500K for the 400 acre parcels. Cal-Bay expects that the forest feedstock harvested from the land to yield more than 10,000 tons of dry cellulosic feedstock. The biomass will be capable […]
In Texas, reports are surfacing that KiOR is short on capital to execute its business plan. “One clean energy stock that short sellers are ogling is KiOR,” writes CNBC. “The company currently has $150 million in cash and the well could run dry by the end of this year unless KiOr can raise a lot […]
In France, Sofiproteol CEO, Philippe Tillous-Borde stated in an interview that he believed rapeseed prices in 2012 would probably remain high, in the neighborhood of $555 to $568/tonne as the global oilseed market remained tight. Tillous-Borde stated, “Sowing of rapeseed has been good in France and Germany, not very good in Romania and Ukraine.”
