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Circular solution for bioplastics, McDonald’s fryer oil to 3D printing resin, human hair to fertilizer, crab shells and seaweed to yarn, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of February 6th

Circular solution for bioplastics, McDonald’s fryer oil to 3D printing resin, human hair to fertilizer, crab shells and seaweed to yarn, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of February 6th

February 5, 2020 |

The infinity symbol…a figure 8 on its side, a lemniscate…no matter what you call it, it signifies the concept of limitlessness or eternity which is what the bioeconomy has been doing lately in its limitless innovations. It’s been a big week for bioplastics with Danimer Scientific and Columbia Packaging Group partnering to make compostable produce […]

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Brown Grease Separation Technology: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Greasezilla’s FOG – Fats, Oils, Greases to Fuel

Brown Grease Separation Technology: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Greasezilla’s FOG – Fats, Oils, Greases to Fuel

February 5, 2020 |

Yuck! There’s a $25 billion grease problem, from the underground blob in the U.K. to pretty much any public treatment facilities and liquid waste haulers, but Greasezilla has a patented system to help solve the grease trap waste problem. Find out the details of the brown grease separation system technology, the biofuel offtake, costs and […]

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Enyzmes and Microbes Innovation: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes’ Biology Business

Enyzmes and Microbes Innovation: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes’ Biology Business

February 4, 2020 |

20 product launches in one year is impressive and Novozymes is a world leader in biological solutions focusing on enzymes and microbes, but even leaders hit road bumps. While Novozymes had some improvement in the second half of 2019, they still had “unsatisfactory 2019 sales performance overall”, blamed on tough agricultural markets and severe weather […]

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MEGaproject: UPM and its $600M gambit in renewable chemicals

MEGaproject: UPM and its $600M gambit in renewable chemicals

February 3, 2020 |

From Finland comes the largest single corporate investment we’ve seen in years — UPM is taking  it’s “next transformative growth step” and is investing in a biorefinery at Leuna, Germany to convert solid wood into next generation biochemicals: bio-monoethylene glycol, lignin-based renewable functional fillers, bio-monopropylene glycol and industrial sugars. UPM will invest €550 million ($611 […]

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From the Other Side: Bio-Fuels Co-Products

From the Other Side: Bio-Fuels Co-Products

February 3, 2020 |

By Matthew L. Gibson, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest “I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now” – Joni Mitchell I’ve been in the ethanol industry, directly, for about half of my career.  The other half has been on “the other side”; that is, in the production of human food – […]

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2020 Bioeconomy M&A Deal Review & Outlook

2020 Bioeconomy M&A Deal Review & Outlook

February 3, 2020 |

The Digest published today a 2020 Deal Review and Outlook Bioeconomy M&A visual guide that looks at the slurry of recent mergers and acquisitions in the bioeconomy like Lygos and Librede, NuSeed and Agrisoma, FinCo Fuels and GoodFuels, The Andersons and Marathon Petroleum, Aemetis and Goodland Fuels, and more. In today’s Digest, find out which ones […]

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Advanced Algal Systems: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Photosynthetic Production of Biodiesel by Cyanobacteria

Advanced Algal Systems: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Photosynthetic Production of Biodiesel by Cyanobacteria

February 3, 2020 |

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s Bioenergy Technology Incubator 2 project is looking at how to directly produce ‘drop in’ ready biofuel (ethyl or methyl laurate) by cyanobacteria using CO2, water, and light as the main inputs. Check out the latest results of this project like the successful production and excretion of methyl […]

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What if the shoes we threw away, actually went away?” – Saucony debuts Super Bowl ad for a biodegradable shoe

What if the shoes we threw away, actually went away?” – Saucony debuts Super Bowl ad for a biodegradable shoe

February 3, 2020 |

In Massachusetts, the global performance running and lifestyle brand Saucony aired a commercial during the Super Bowl to debut plans for its first biodegradable shoe, now in development − a major announcement that reinforces the brand’s commitment to sustainability and goodness. Saucony’s Super Bowl spot begins with a rhetorical question: “What if the shoes we […]

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High-End Crop Traits: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt’s Gene Editing for Healthier Food

High-End Crop Traits: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt’s Gene Editing for Healthier Food

February 2, 2020 |

While some have abandoned their healthier eating New Year’s Resolutions, there is still a growing global consumer population demanding healthier food and Calyxt is working on making that happen. Calyxt develops healthier specialty food ingredients, like heart healthy oils and high fiber wheat, by leveraging cutting edge science to develop food crops through gene editing […]

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The largest sustainable aviation fuel offtake deal, ever?: Delta strikes historic SAF contract with Pacific Northwest biofuels venture

The largest sustainable aviation fuel offtake deal, ever?: Delta strikes historic SAF contract with Pacific Northwest biofuels venture

January 30, 2020 |

From Washington state and from Georgia news arrives that Delta entered into one of the largest airline offtake agreements of its kind to purchase sustainable aviation fuel from NWABF. Yep, NWABF, which sounds an awful lot like Porky Pig trying to pronounce “Robert” but actually is Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels. More on that, shortly. But let’s […]

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