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Sustainable Aviation Fuel Now: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Energy for Airlines

Sustainable Aviation Fuel Now: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Energy for Airlines

September 20, 2020 |

The consortium concept is not new, so what is different now? Energy for Airlines tackles the answer and shares what the SAF Now Consortium is and what it means for the aviation and biofuels industries. Michael Baer, President of Energy for Airlines, shared this illuminating presentation on why now, 5 steps to overcome inertia, how SAF […]

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Competitive Edge: ChainCraft’s technology converts organic waste into medium chain fatty acids

Competitive Edge: ChainCraft’s technology converts organic waste into medium chain fatty acids

September 17, 2020 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Three key needs were the basis behind development of ChainCraft: Valorization of organic waste streams. Food waste is estimated to […]

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CO2 Solutions and Implications for Biofuels: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to E100 Ethanol Group

CO2 Solutions and Implications for Biofuels: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to E100 Ethanol Group

September 17, 2020 |

CO2 levels are a problem. But why is this important? What does it have to do with bankruptcy and food security? What is a proposed solution and how would it impact the biofuels industry? Could we even really do it? Don Siefkes, Executive Director of the E100 Ethanol Group, shared this illuminating presentation that tackles some of […]

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Convergence Fermentation Tech: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits

Convergence Fermentation Tech: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits

September 16, 2020 |

Toilet paper and hand sanitizer were hot products, but now Lallemand’s Convergence and fermentation products are hot stuff. LBDS, a leading global supplier of fermentation ingredients and technical solutions for both fuel alcohol and distilled beverage production, shares the latest on their yeast and enzyme platform and tech for fuel ethanol production. This presentation was on […]

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Solving the low carbon shipping fuel and energy algorithm – quickly!

Solving the low carbon shipping fuel and energy algorithm – quickly!

September 15, 2020 |

By Adrian Tolson, Director, Lead, BLUE Insight Special to The Digest BLUE Insight’s Low Carbon Shipping Fuels and Energy Guide 2020 is a market first assessment of the leading low carbon marine fuels with potential to replace fossil fuels as the marine fuel of the future and analyses the companies, the R&D projects and collaborations, […]

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Enabling a Circular Economy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Dolea’s Sustainable Straws

Enabling a Circular Economy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Dolea’s Sustainable Straws

September 15, 2020 |

Finland has lots of trees and biomass, so Dolea is situated in a perfect place to create their paper drinking straws. Paper straws may not sound very innovative to you, but what IS unique is Dolea’s creation of straws with no glue and that are repulpable. Check out their slide guide from ABLC Digital this […]

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Evonik, Avril, POET Collaborations: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM’s Evolution

Evonik, Avril, POET Collaborations: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM’s Evolution

September 15, 2020 |

From the early days of coal mining in 1902 to today’s nutrition, health and sustainable living segments, DSM has certainly evolved with the times. Atul Thakrar, President of its Bio-based Products & Services, shared this illuminating presentation at ABLC Digital on their recent collaborations with companies like Evonik on sustainable salmon farming with a new algal […]

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Lallemand launches new Convergence yeast, enzyme platform: could save ethanol producers $1M/year in replacing all external fermentation enzymes

Lallemand launches new Convergence yeast, enzyme platform: could save ethanol producers $1M/year in replacing all external fermentation enzymes

September 14, 2020 |

In Wisconsin, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits has announced a next generation advanced yeast and enzyme platform called Convergence, which combines a new yeast that generates virtually all the glucoamylase (GA) required for fermentation combined with a small amount of complementary exogenous enzyme. The bottom line impact for a corn starch ethanol producer would be […]

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Biobased Polymers, PEF and Propanediol: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Dupont’s Biomaterials

Biobased Polymers, PEF and Propanediol: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Dupont’s Biomaterials

September 14, 2020 |

From biobased propanediol for personal care products to polymers for apparel and packages, DuPont gets the value and advantages of biomaterials and is working with ADM to create breakthrough biomaterials too. Michael Saltzberg, Business Director at DuPont Biomaterials, shared this illuminating presentation at ABLC Digital on DuPont’s approach to developing biomaterials, Zemea process tech where feedstocks […]

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Unlocking New Sources of Sustainable Investment: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ESG Investing in the Bioeconomy

Unlocking New Sources of Sustainable Investment: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ESG Investing in the Bioeconomy

September 13, 2020 |

How to unlock the billions in this new investment stream for the bioeconomy projects you care about was the name of the game on DigestConnect this past Thursday. Cindy Thyfault, CEO of Global Biofuture Solutions and Gerard Ostheimer, Senior Advisor at Below50, shared this illuminating presentation what can be done about the least tapped into type of […]

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