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Carbohydrate Industry Outlook: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbs and Sugars

Carbohydrate Industry Outlook: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbs and Sugars

December 22, 2019 |

Ah sugar, sugar, you are my candy girl. Fluid Quip Technologies is talking about industrial sugar of course, and its many challenges and opportunities. Check out this slide guide from Neal Jakel, Partner/Strategy and Technology at FQT who shared this at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco to find out about the ethanol industry and biochemical […]

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The Bioeconomy Christmas: Uncle Sam puts $12B+ for biomass-based diesel, action on biointermediates, cellulosics, and small refinery waivers into the stocking this year

The Bioeconomy Christmas: Uncle Sam puts $12B+ for biomass-based diesel, action on biointermediates, cellulosics, and small refinery waivers into the stocking this year

December 19, 2019 |

This week, Congressional leaders announced a five-year extension of the biomass-based diesel tax credit as part of a year-end tax extenders package. As Christmas gifts go, the importance and value of this to the biomass-based diesel universe cannot be overemphasized. No phase down Unexpectedly, the five year extension of the blenders credits comes without a […]

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LEGO bioplastic bricks, castor bean coats, world’s first hydrogen powered ferry and carrier ship, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 20th

LEGO bioplastic bricks, castor bean coats, world’s first hydrogen powered ferry and carrier ship, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 20th

December 19, 2019 |

For some, it’s holiday shopping season and now LEGO’s first bioplastic block set is an option! The kit—appropriately designed to make a treehouse—uses sugarcane-based polyethylene. Another great gift Top 10 Innovation from this week is French outerwear company Moncler’s new carbon-neutral jacket made from castor beans. Yes, a coat from castor – the down jacket […]

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The Drivers Behind the New Paradigm: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo’s Market Perspective

The Drivers Behind the New Paradigm: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo’s Market Perspective

December 19, 2019 |

We all want to change the world, but Patrick Gruber, CEO at Gevo looks at how we can really do that. By looking at current market drivers, what’s happening with supply chains, the challenges, what products work, how we can get jet fuel to very low carbon footprints, and more, Gruber shared this presentation at […]

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One-Step Process: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ETB’s Butadiene from Ethanol

One-Step Process: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ETB’s Butadiene from Ethanol

December 18, 2019 |

ETB Catalytic Technologies developed a unique technology of producing butadiene from ethanol production. But the big question is how do they commercialize the technology? Just ask Vladimir Trembovolsky, CEO of ETB Catalytic Technologies who shared this presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco. Check out this Slide-Guide to get the answers and find out what […]

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Lessons Learning on the Road to Commercialization: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Ensyn’s Demo to Commercial Path

Lessons Learning on the Road to Commercialization: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Ensyn’s Demo to Commercial Path

December 18, 2019 |

We all know going from demo to commercial isn’t easy. Ensyn, a company that produces biocrude from forest and agricultural residues using its proprietary thermal technology and focuses on low carbon fuels and chemicals, knows all about it. Ian S. Barnett, Chair of the Finance Committee and on Ensyn’s Board of Directors shared this illuminating […]

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Confessions of a Biorefiner: Green Plains’ journey into the land of high-value proteins, and the who, what and why of that

Confessions of a Biorefiner: Green Plains’ journey into the land of high-value proteins, and the who, what and why of that

December 18, 2019 |

This week news came out of a partnership between Novozymes and Green Plains to use biological technology to extract more value from corn protein, at what used to be known as corn ethanol plants, but with this news we might finally and forever begin to think of them as something else. This provided us an […]

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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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