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What can new bio-based businesses do to build and operate new investments successfully?

What can new bio-based businesses do to build and operate new investments successfully?

January 12, 2023 |

By Mike Sticklen, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest Winning Business Strategy, Robust Technology with Great Team Currently there are numerous new investments being made in bio-based industries including renewable hydrogen and renewable hydrogen derivatives, renewable diesel, new proteins, sustainable aviation fuel, bio-based plastics and chemicals and carbon capture, utilization, and storage.  The recent […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Lygos

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Lygos

January 11, 2023 |

Lygos uses advanced biological and chemical tools to convert low-cost sugar to renewable chemicals. From there, Lygos’ economical fermentation and downstream processes enable scaled production to commercial quantities. Lygos CEO Eric Steen presented these slides at ABLC Next 2022.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

January 10, 2023 |

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2021 sales of $31 billion (€26 billion). The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications such as hydrogen for clean fuels. Linde also […]

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Fixing the Fermentation Squeeze: Liberation Labs comes out of stealth with a Farm to Ferm mission

Fixing the Fermentation Squeeze: Liberation Labs comes out of stealth with a Farm to Ferm mission

January 10, 2023 |

Liberation Labs comes out of stealth with a $20M funding round and a precision fermentation platform for the production of alternative proteins at scale  News arrives from New York that Mark Warner and his Liberation Labs team have closed a $20 million seed round of funding, for its journey into deploying precision fermentation platform for […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to LifeCycle Associates and Counting Carbon

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to LifeCycle Associates and Counting Carbon

January 9, 2023 |

Life Cycle Associates is an independent business and environmental consulting firm specializing in life cycle analysis of fuel production pathways. The company completes life cycle analysis, model development, process design, analysis of policy implications, regulatory support and much more. Lifecycle Associates founder Stefan Unnasch presented these slides at ABLC Next 2022.

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The New RVOs, Not as Clear Cut as it Might Appear

The New RVOs, Not as Clear Cut as it Might Appear

January 9, 2023 |

By Bradley Schad, CEO, Missouri Corn Growers Association Special to The Digest The release of the proposed rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set volume obligations for the RFS was, on the surface, a positive development. The conventional biofuel category, which is the domain of corn ethanol, would require 15 billion gallons next […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of SAF

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of SAF

January 6, 2023 |

This week on ABLC Connect we looked at the policies, projects, players, raw materials and end–use demand for SAF — from field to wing, we have the current projects under construction, the Value Stack, a supply forecast, and the latest on the SAF Grand Challenge, among other topics in this 35 slide State of the […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Forestry and the US Renewable Fuel Standard, the key issues.

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Forestry and the US Renewable Fuel Standard, the key issues.

January 5, 2023 |

Where does forestry fit into the RFS and with the biofuels industry, asks Lee Enterprises Consulting’s Larry Sullivan in this enlightening tour of the past, present and future of forest-based feedstocks. Sullivan goes back to the Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model or FASOM followed by the federal agencies, which set up the Billion Ton […]

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Low-Carbon Hydrogen Heads for Sarnia

Low-Carbon Hydrogen Heads for Sarnia

January 5, 2023 |

To support the region’s ambition of being the launching point of a large-scale, multi-faceted low-carbon hydrogen economy in Ontario – as Ontario’s Hydrogen Hub – the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership has released the Ontario’s Hydrogen Hub in Sarnia-Lambton Strategic Plan, and it’s well worth a look, a gander, and some action..Read all about it here. It’s yet […]

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Y2Ag: Is someone selling a crisis in land use that isn’t really there?

Y2Ag: Is someone selling a crisis in land use that isn’t really there?

January 5, 2023 |

It ought to be the Era of Good Feelings in the world of SAF — technology is available, more feedstocks have appeared, carbon programs are stable and market-based, companies are organized. The Biden Administration set a 3 Billion Gallons by 2030 SAF target and the DOE has launched a SAF Grand Challenge Yet, one hears […]

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