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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Axens

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Axens

November 15, 2022 |

Axens offers today the largest portfolio to do so; providing efficient, reliable and flexible technologies to convert biomass into high quality and low-carbon alternative products for the transportation sector as well as the chemical industry.. Axens BD director David Schwalje presented these slides at ABLC Next 2022.

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Hot, Superhot, Uberhot: The leading lights in renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials make big moves

Hot, Superhot, Uberhot: The leading lights in renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials make big moves

November 15, 2022 |

Among the newest adopters, we’re reporting this week that cactus leather slip-ons prove G.H. Bass isn’t “loafing about” on sustainability. In addition Tarform has revved up use of renewables for its electric motorcycles, using a flaxseed and biobased resin composite dyed with algae-based pigments. Finally, Germany’s Playmobil will soon expand its Wiltopia bioplastic range of […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Arzeda

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Arzeda

November 14, 2022 |

Arzeda’s combination of computational protein design and state-of-the-art high-throughput screening is a radical change over what’s possible with traditional protein engineering. Our proprietary technology has been peer-reviewed in Science and Nature, and is based on solid and vetted models of protein biophysics and metabolic biochemistry coupled with large-scale computing. CEO Alexandre Zanghellini presented these slides […]

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It’s Maine! DG Fuels unveils land deal for SAF expansion into the Pine Tree State

It’s Maine! DG Fuels unveils land deal for SAF expansion into the Pine Tree State

November 14, 2022 |

From Washington DC comes news of projects rather than politics.  DG Fuels,has executed  long-term lease agreements with the Loring Development Authority for 1,240 acres in Aroostock County, Maine — part of the former Loring Air Force Base located near Limestone and Caribou. The site will host DG Fuels second SAF facility as well as the […]

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Western Plains Energy and the journey towards net zero ethanol

Western Plains Energy and the journey towards net zero ethanol

November 10, 2022 |

In Kansas, Western Plains Energy is pioneering carbon neutral ethanol production by replacing molecular sieves with fully integrated membrane separation solutions in a quest to become the first zero emissions ethanol producer.  Whitefox, is the bioethanol membrane engineering innovator supplying the innovative technology.  Engineering phase 1 is already in progress and the project has an […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Aquatech

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Aquatech

November 10, 2022 |

Aquatech International is a global leader in water purification technology for industrial and infrastructure markets with a focus on desalination, water recycle and reuse, and zero liquid discharge. Aquatech’s Simone Callioni joined us on the ABLC stage at ABLC Next 2022 for a presentation on Aquatech’s progress and projects, including their recycling technologies for wastewater […]

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Welcome the Golden Age of Advanced Fuels?

Welcome the Golden Age of Advanced Fuels?

November 10, 2022 |

By Alexander Koukoulas,Henna Poikolainen, Esa Sipilä — AFRY Special to the Digest The second half of 2022 is shaping up to be a watershed year for the advanced fuels and bio-based chemicals industries. New regulatory frameworks to address climate change are providing a catalyst for what will be unprecedented growth in these sectors. In the US, the […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Anellotech

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Anellotech

November 10, 2022 |

Founded in 2008, Anellotech is a sustainable technology company that has invented and is developing innovative technologies to produce cost effective, renewable chemical and to recycle mixed plastics. Over the past years Anellotech has raised over US$80 million in cash and in-kind contributions to develop its patented Bio-TCat technology, an efficient thermal catalytic process for converting […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Amyris

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Amyris

November 9, 2022 |

By engineering the genetics of yeast strains and fermenting them in sugarcane syrup, Amyris pioneered the ability to convert basic plant sugars to hydrocarbon molecules. To date, the company has successfully created and commercialized 13 sustainable ingredients that are used by hundreds of millions of people, in products made by more than 3,000 top global […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to the American Biogas outlook

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to the American Biogas outlook

November 8, 2022 |

US biogas is growing quickly — a combination of extensive feedstock resources, a strong policy incentive structure and and ecosystem which has now developed of project developers and financiers. No group has had a more important role as a convener in the sector than the American Biogas Council. At ABLC Next 2022, executive director Patrick […]

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