The late, great Ron Cascone of NEXANT and the Due Diligence Wolfpack observed in The Daily Digest in 2018, “Major players in the fuels and chemicals industries have begun serious development of [new] processes that produce intermediates and finished products from carbon dioxide. One of the most interesting areas is in the many developments that […]
One of the bioeconomy’s newest stars that has gone through a tremendous expansion into new markets from wholesale to retail, here’s the latest — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — launch-stage, growth-stage, maturity and end of life.
From Connecticut comes news that crop protection tech pioneer Enko raised $70 million in Series C funding, bringing the company to an overall valuation of $320 million. Global agrochemical company Nufarm led the round — we’ve covered their NuSeed subsidiary extensively in recent years as it has invested in bringing carinata forward as a feedstock. […]
Earnings season calls, and one of the bioeconomy’s most dynamic and innovative public companies has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — from soybeans to services
Today, The Daily Digest turns 15, it’s our quinceañera! We started the Digest on July 27, 2007 because it seemed to me, then as now, that the industry could use a good 5-minute round-up of what’s going on around the globe. ABLC came along, then the CIRCULAR and not long ago, ROBIN. It seems like […]
One of the bioeconomy’s largest public companies has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — launch-stage, growth-stage, maturity and end of life.
The Iron Law of Sustainability reasserted itself this morning when Ginkgo BioWorks acquired Zymergen and along with it a vast sea of intellectual property and some tasty business opportunities, for the bargain price of $300 million. It’s just a fraction of the $3 billion valuation that Zymergen achieved at its all time high of $4.8 […]
One of the bioeconomy’s stalwarts that has gone through a tremendous transformation from fuels focus to ingredients – and ALTO has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.
In the days around the global financial crisis of 2008-09 when so many eyes were glued to the television watching the cable financial networks like Bloomberg and Fox Business, the 9am Morning Call program at Fox was so frenzied as the storylines expanded, that you might have mistaken it for the frenzy of the US […]
Last week we took a Deep Dive into the BioTfuel technology in a special webinar on SAF, RD via Cellulosic Feedstocks. The BioTfueL project launched by Axens, TotalEnergies and a number of partners is designed to transform lignocellulosic biomass (straw, forest waste, dedicated energy crops) into biofuel via thermochemical conversion. The webinar presentation by David Schwalje […]
