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Clean Beauty, Flavors and Fragrances, Alternative Sweeteners: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris’s Synthetic Biology in a COVID-19 World

Clean Beauty, Flavors and Fragrances, Alternative Sweeteners: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris’s Synthetic Biology in a COVID-19 World

May 20, 2020 |

Even with everything going on, Amyris reports strong growth prospects driven by consumer megatrends and underpinned by proprietary science in their latest May 2020 investor presentation. With sales growth of 140% between FY 2018 and 2019, and a 56% 2019 gross margin, Amyris continues to grow in key industries like consumer beauty productions, natural flavors and fragrances, […]

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Protected: Biobased technologies, companies, partners and models of interest

Protected: Biobased technologies, companies, partners and models of interest

May 20, 2020 |

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New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project

New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project

May 18, 2020 |

In Brussels, the European Investment Bank, with the support of the European Commission, has granted a EUR 75 million (nearly $82 million USD) loan to ArcelorMittal for Steelanol, the EUR 165 million ($180 million USD) industrial-scale demonstration plant based on LanzaTech’s process, capturing waste gases from the blast furnace and biologically convert them into recycled-carbon […]

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What’s next for biofuels? 8 Scenarios for a Post COVID-19 World

What’s next for biofuels? 8 Scenarios for a Post COVID-19 World

May 18, 2020 |

By Steve Hartig, Senior Consultant at ReCon Associates Special to The Digest  This has been a dramatic time in gasoline and ethanol with demand dropping quickly due to COVID 19 and the related shutdown. It is impossible to know what is going to happen ahead but what we can do is to create some scenarios. […]

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Do we need an Activist Army?: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Fuels in a Green Recovery

Do we need an Activist Army?: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Fuels in a Green Recovery

May 18, 2020 |

On last week’s DigestConnect webinar about the Green Recovery, Joanne Ivancic from Advanced Biofuel USA shared this illuminating presentation about the need for more education and understanding of renewable fuels. From the evidence that it’s a problem to how can we do better to ensure that renewable fuels are no longer overlooked in a Green Recovery, […]

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Greenprint for Biomanufacturing and Sustainable Supply Chains: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biostrategy 2020 in a Post-COVID World

Greenprint for Biomanufacturing and Sustainable Supply Chains: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biostrategy 2020 in a Post-COVID World

May 17, 2020 |

As biology ravages the global economy, we have a once-in-a-lifetime, trillion-dollar opportunity to help shape how biology will also rebuild it, reports Synbiobeta. We can redefine the economy, supply chains, and manufacturing at local, state, national, and global levels, and bring back the millions of jobs that have been lost due to COVID-19. With California as […]

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Joni of Ernst leads the defense of the RFS

Joni of Ernst leads the defense of the RFS

May 14, 2020 |

In Washington, the Renewable Fuel Standard is being besieged again, and while it is starting to feel like a Siege They Never Stop Trying and Never Works out of a Monty Python episode, industry trade associations say it is time once again to man the ramparts and pour burning oil, throw stones and otherwise defend […]

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Food Supply Chain and Nutrition: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ADM’s Corn and Beyond

Food Supply Chain and Nutrition: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ADM’s Corn and Beyond

May 14, 2020 |

If COVID-19 has taught us anything this year, it’s that a flexible supply chain and healthy workers are needed to ensure food security. In this illuminating slide guide, ADM shares it’s Q1 accomplishments, like the ability for thousands of global colleagues to be able to work virtually in this extenuating circumstances. But that’s not all! Achieving […]

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Running for Office on Climate Change?

Running for Office on Climate Change?

May 13, 2020 |

By Peter Brown, Founder and Principal of Euro Marketing Tools Special to The Digest This election cycle has confirmed that the United States’ political hopefuls have abdicated any participation, influence and presence in the climate change debate as it is being set out in the various ecosystems around the world. This is happening in the […]

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Corn Export Report Shows Lower Protein and Starch Concentrations: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to USGC’s Corn Quality Report

Corn Export Report Shows Lower Protein and Starch Concentrations: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to USGC’s Corn Quality Report

May 13, 2020 |

The U.S. Grains Council presented findings from its 9th annual corn quality survey in this 2019/2020 Corn Export Cargo Quality Report, which is based on samples taken at the point of loading for international shipment early in the 2019/2020 marketing year. Find out what impacted the quality of the corn assembled for export early in the […]

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