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? Activated Research Company (ARC) was founded in 2014 with a mission to make chemical analysis easy. Utilizing our expertise in […]
SkyNRG recently announced the first dedicated European SAF production unit, but how do we accelerate market growth for sustainable aviation fuel? That’s a question SkyNRG is tackling by talking about challenges with scaling up and how to meet those challenges head on. Check out Misha Valk, Head of Future Fuels at SkyNRG, presentation from ABLC NEXT […]
We’ve seen the staggering numbers, 78 million tons of annual plastics production, 98% virgin feedstock, and only 14% gets collected for recycling. So what do we do about it? Jay Fitzgerald from the Bioenergy technologies Office (BETO) office gave this engaging presentation that will get your brain thinking about how a circular carbon economy ties […]
It was a week of lots of deal-making, like edible straw startup Loliware’s raising of $5.9 million to scale production, and deal-breaking, like Itaconix and Nouryon’s break-up over biobased chelating agents for detergent applications. But it was also a week of innovating like the development of biobased food packaging films made from biopolymers based on […]
The first votes of the 2020 Presidential election season are due to be cast in Iowa in less than two weeks, and it is fitting that this farm state is where the journey towards Decision 2020 begins. Iowa touches all of us, as the epicenter of the world’s bioeconomy. The bioeconomy is the source of […]
With 3 trillion vehicle miles in the U.S. and 11 billion freight tons, transportation is key to our way of life, and the Department of Energy realizes it hits our national energy usage in many ways. That’s why they are researching it all levels from components and fuels, vehicles and transportation systems. Michael Berube, Acting Deputy […]
Working as an M&A and capital market counsel focused on the biofuels sector, Oswaldo Dalla Torre has been monitoring the developments of the Brazilian Renovabio program, which has just entered into force. RenovaBio is Brazil’s federal program aimed to curb carbon emissions by 10% in 2028, in line with the UN Paris Agreement on climate change. […]
I thought I would never hear concentrated joy as at the evangelical churches of my childhood, on Easter morning, when the faithful sang “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” — and then I arrived at the 2020 National Biodiesel Conference & Expo. This year’s conference theme was simple and bold enough, Vision 2020. But it could […]
Fuel enhancement, cathode benefits, efficient synthesis process – those are all things we want, right? Sylvatex’s CEO Virginia Irwin Klausmeier gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francscio that covers how Sylvatex is working on this with their nanoparticle chemistry platform, the plant-based MicroX blending that enables global scale-up and flexible production, how […]
There’s a lot of flat, dry land in the U.S. but researchers at Arizona State University and others are looking at how that land could support biofuel production. How about evaporation-resistant reactors coupled with thermotolerant, high-productivity mixotrophic algae? Check out this Slide-Guide from P.I. Peter Lammers from Arizona State University’s BETO Project Peer Review to get […]
