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Hydrogen tech’s diversified future: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogenics

Hydrogen tech’s diversified future: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogenics

December 18, 2019 |

Hydrogenics is a unit of Cummins Inc. active in designing, manufacturing, building and installing industrial and commercial Hydrogen generation, Hydrogen fuel cells and MW-scale energy storage solutions. Based in Mississauga, Canada with manufacturing facilities located in Germany, Belgium and United States, the company offers PEM and alkaline Hydrogen generators for Industrial processes and Fueling stations, Hydrogen fuel […]

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Alberta has its economic answer in front of them. Will they see the forest for the trees?

Alberta has its economic answer in front of them. Will they see the forest for the trees?

December 17, 2019 |

By Jeff Passmore, Founder and Chair of Scaling Up Special to The Digest Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the industrial bioeconomy, and it’s a strategy that can bring Ottawa […]

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Cloud Bioreactor and Fermentation Data Infrastructure: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Culture Bioscience’s Bioreactor

Cloud Bioreactor and Fermentation Data Infrastructure: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Culture Bioscience’s Bioreactor

December 17, 2019 |

Culture Bioscience is trying to accelerate fermentation R&D to help companies get products to market faster and has built an automated bioreactor facility operated as a cloud service for biotechnology companies. Will Patrick, Co-founder and CEO of Culture had this illuminating presentation to share on their cloud bioreactor facility, how they are improving their tools […]

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Sunliquid Tech Scaling Up: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Clariant’s Commercialization

Sunliquid Tech Scaling Up: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Clariant’s Commercialization

December 17, 2019 |

Clariant’s sunliquid technology integrates cellulosic sugar/ethanol production made from agricultural residues, integrated enzyme production, feedstock flexibility, and more. Paolo Corvo, Head of Sales & Marketing, Business Line Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant offered the latest and greatest updates on their sunliquid technology, the 7 year running plant in Germany, their new flagship plant progress en […]

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Gevo’s Delta sustainable aviation fuels deal — Holy SAF, Batman, it really worth a billion bucks? 

Gevo’s Delta sustainable aviation fuels deal — Holy SAF, Batman, it really worth a billion bucks? 

December 17, 2019 |

Delta enters offtake agreement with Gevo for 10 million gallons per year of sustainable aviation fuel, creates long-term carbon solution. What does it mean? In Colorado and Georgia, Delta signed a take-or-pay deal to purchase 10 million gallons per year of advanced renewable biofuels from Gevo. Sustainable aviation fuels provide significant environmental benefits because the […]

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We Three Kings of the Bioeconomy Are: Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & what appears to be the entire investing universe announce massive deals to anchor a big bioeconomy Christmas

We Three Kings of the Bioeconomy Are: Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & what appears to be the entire investing universe announce massive deals to anchor a big bioeconomy Christmas

December 16, 2019 |

Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & a bunch of investors new and returning — three transformative market shifts this week of epic proportion. Grabbing the dollar headlines has to be Inscripta’s eye-watering $125 million Series D cap raise, which will accelerate applications expansion and commercialization of the company’s revolutionary Onyx Digital […]

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Show Me The Money!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to 1st Cash Cover Crop for the Midwest

Show Me The Money!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to 1st Cash Cover Crop for the Midwest

December 16, 2019 |

Cover crops are not all the same – just ask Dr. Tim Ulmasov, CTO of CoverCress who shared this presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco to introduce the first cash cover crop for the Midwest. It’s similar to canola, offers farmers a $50-70/acre cash margin, pluscover crop benefit over the winter, it is a […]

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Conversion Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to BETO’s Carbon-Based Fuels and Co-Products

Conversion Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to BETO’s Carbon-Based Fuels and Co-Products

December 16, 2019 |

Why is working with biomass so challenging? Jonathan Male, Director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) set out to answer that question at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco. Check out his illuminating presentation on how BETO is exploring various strategies to reduce the price of biofuels toward $2/GGE, the latest on […]

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Sustainable Seafood: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Finless Foods

Sustainable Seafood: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Finless Foods

December 15, 2019 |

Cultured carp – yes, fish made in a lab – is not that crazy. After all, we have the Impossible Burger, Beyond Burger and other meat alternatives, and there’s the leather without the cow too, so why not fish without the fish? Check out this slide guide from ABLC NEXT in San Francisco to find […]

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Starting with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Codexis’s Enzymes and Scalable Proteins

Starting with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Codexis’s Enzymes and Scalable Proteins

December 15, 2019 |

Codexis has reimagined the degree, and speed, of transformation of protein performance possible through protein engineering – Better libraries, better (bigger) data and a highly integrated workflow that leads to rapid, and very large, performance improvements. They are also engineering an ultra-stable enzyme for carbon capture. Rob Wilson, PhD, SVP of Business Operations and GM […]

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