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Network Like Crazy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ABLC Digital

Network Like Crazy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ABLC Digital

June 24, 2020 |

In Florida, the Digest unveiled its new DIGESTCONNECT Digital Community, and complete plans for ABLC Digital, which takes place July 7-10, 2020. The Digest also unveiled its expanded BioChannel.TV ASIA and BioChannel.TV EUROPE services that will stream more than 20 hours of ABLC Digital content in business hours all over the world. How will the bioeconomy […]

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Energy Transition in Times of Coronavirus: A Challenge and an Opportunity

Energy Transition in Times of Coronavirus: A Challenge and an Opportunity

June 23, 2020 |

By Pierroberto Folgiero, CEO of NextChem Special to The Digest It is clear to everyone today that the coronavirus outbreak will produce a relevant crisis at a global level, triggering a serious economic slowdown and it seems likely that the economic downturn will have as an immediate effect a drop in carbon dioxide emissions. In […]

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EU ClassifiesTiO2 as Carcinogen: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Titanium Dioxide

EU ClassifiesTiO2 as Carcinogen: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Titanium Dioxide

June 23, 2020 |

While COVID-19 was just starting to get on the mind of many earlier this year, the European Union published its final decision to classify titanium dioxide as a category 2 carginogen. But titanium dioxide is in so many things – sunscreen, cosmetics, even in self-clean fabric on metro trains – pretty handy during Covid-19 times. So […]

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Embracing Alcohol-based Fuels as the Key to Decarbonizing Long-Haul Trucking

Embracing Alcohol-based Fuels as the Key to Decarbonizing Long-Haul Trucking

June 22, 2020 |

By Peter Sopher, Senior Associate at Clean Energy Ventures Special to The Digest Automobile manufacturers such as Nissan, Chevy, Tesla, BYD, and others have successfully elevated battery-powered electric cars, vans, and even buses from being niche, expensive, and poor-performing transportation solutions to becoming mainstream and affordable with marked improvements in performance and range. But a […]

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Renewable Fuels Expansion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo’s Next-Gen Renewable Fuels

Renewable Fuels Expansion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo’s Next-Gen Renewable Fuels

June 22, 2020 |

Gevo is developing a platform to fund expansion projects in the next phase of its unique, next generation renewable fuels business. Their commercial-scale facilities are converting agricultural, forestry and other feedstocks to high value, low pollutant, low carbon substitutes for gasoline and jet fuel. So they check alot of boxes, but is that all? Get the […]

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Macaúba as Sustainable Feedstock for Biofuels and More: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Soleá Oils and Bioproducts

Macaúba as Sustainable Feedstock for Biofuels and More: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Soleá Oils and Bioproducts

June 21, 2020 |

Macaúba as a biofuel feedstock has lots to offer, like its high productivity per ton/hectare surpassing that of soy, sunflower, rapeseed, and palm oil, and that it can grow even on degraded land making it a more sustainable feedstock to consider. And Soleá knows that, which is why it is pilot testing hydrotreated pyrolytic oil (HPO) as […]

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DigestConnect renewed for second 13-week season

DigestConnect renewed for second 13-week season

June 19, 2020 |

13 weeks ago, we started DigestConnect as a weekly get-together to help rally a bioeconomy that had been slammed by the COVID-19 crisis. We imagined a weekly get-together for a few dozen people, over a 13-week season, but word spread. In the past month, more than 6,100 people took part in DigestConnect, live or on-demand. […]

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Competitive Edge: Green Cell Technologies

Competitive Edge: Green Cell Technologies

June 18, 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? Green Cell Technologies (GCT) is a biotechnology and intellectual property development company in extract technology for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmoceutical, […]

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Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel’s Resiliency Even in Crisis: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to REG’s Response to COVID-19

Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel’s Resiliency Even in Crisis: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to REG’s Response to COVID-19

June 18, 2020 |

From planning, people and performance, Renewable Energy Group is on top of things with the coronavirus. Since biodiesel and renewable diesel production has been considered essential business, REG was still working, maintaining full operations of all refineries, and while there was lower diesel demand due to the shut down of the economy, demand for REG’s products […]

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A GOOD IDEA Path to Economic Transformation

A GOOD IDEA Path to Economic Transformation

June 17, 2020 |

By Russ Freeman, CEO, Modern Rotating Impact Mill Production Company, llc. Special to The Digest  So how do we choose a GOOD PATH from many alternatives carbon sources? Repurposing carbon in Municipal Solid Wastes could be exceptionally attractive to local government facing a pandemic-driven loss of both income and property tax revenue while also facing […]

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