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Feedstock supply chains & Clariant’s experience in Romania

Feedstock supply chains & Clariant’s experience in Romania

October 31, 2019 |

By Paolo Corvo,  Head of Sales & Marketing Business Line Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant Special to The Digest Bioenergy, and in particular advanced biofuels, will help mitigating climate change, will significantly contribute to reach national and global emission goals, and play a key role in the decarbonization of the transport sector. Multiple studies agree […]

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Biobased polycarbonate breakthrough, seaweed diapers, bamboo toothbrushes, one cow’s manure can power Toyota’s new Mirai hydrogen car and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of October 31st

Biobased polycarbonate breakthrough, seaweed diapers, bamboo toothbrushes, one cow’s manure can power Toyota’s new Mirai hydrogen car and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of October 31st

October 30, 2019 |

It’s Halloween and things are getting pretty scary out there with stinky, petroleum based, disposable, plastic diapers and plastic toothbrushes being discarded all over the world but have no fear, for a new seaweed-based reusable diaper and Colgate’s new bamboo toothbrush is here to save the day! But wait there’s other news that will calm […]

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The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the Shell annual Scenarios

The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the Shell annual Scenarios

October 30, 2019 |

It’s ABLC Week and the semi-annual State of the Industry Address and a host of industry outlooks will be forthcoming in two Industry Horizons Forums and two Next Technologies Summits taking place on Thursday and Friday. We’re rounding out our coverage with the annual long-range forecasts from the oil majors Shell, BP and ExxonMobil — […]

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The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft

The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft

October 29, 2019 |

As Hüseyin Turan Arat of İskenderun Technical University and Meryem Gizem Sürer observed in a recent paper, “With the increasing world population and the energy consumption, the aviation industry has led the technology and researches to alternative and/or renewable energy sources depending on the risk of depletion on kerosene fuels and its effects on the […]

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ABLC Preview – The Top 10 Industry Trends to Follow

ABLC Preview – The Top 10 Industry Trends to Follow

October 29, 2019 |

In San Francisco, the industry is gathering for the 6th annual Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Technologies and Markets. Here are 10 themes and the news events that are propelling the industry to re-evaluate the pace and shape of development in key markets and R&D areas. AIR The news: This week we reported that […]

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The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the BP annual Outlook

The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the BP annual Outlook

October 29, 2019 |

It’s ABLC Week and the semi-annual State of the Industry Address and a host of industry outlooks will be forthcoming in two Industry Horizons Forums and two Next Technologies Summits taking place on Thursday and Friday. We’re rounding out our coverage with the annual long-range forecasts from the oil majors Shell, BP and ExxonMobil — […]

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Views from Napa Valley: A Peak at California’s Low Carbon Fuels Program (2019)

Views from Napa Valley: A Peak at California’s Low Carbon Fuels Program (2019)

October 28, 2019 |

By Michele Rubino, Special to The Digest I attended the Argus Biofuels & Carbon Markets Summit in Napa Valley October 21-23 2019. Time flies. The last time I was at the gathering was 2015. Donald Trump had recently announced his candidacy riding down the now famous escalator in Trump Tower alongside Melania, while David Cameron […]

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The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the ExxonMobil annual Outlook

The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the ExxonMobil annual Outlook

October 28, 2019 |

It’s ABLC Week and the semi-annual State of the Industry Address and a host of industry outlooks will be forthcoming in two Industry Horizons Forums and two Next Technologies Summits taking place on Thursday and Friday. We’re rounding out our coverage with the annual long-range forecasts from the oil majors Shell, BP and ExxonMobil — […]

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The Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Arzeda and Designer Proteins

The Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Arzeda and Designer Proteins

October 27, 2019 |

In our Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World, one company which is intensively followed by the Digesterati but perhaps less known in the broader world is Arzeda.  That has a lot to do with the fact that the entire idea of designing proteins using modern tools has completely revolutionized the scope and scale of […]

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Coalition Challenges EPA on 2018 Refinery Waivers

Coalition Challenges EPA on 2018 Refinery Waivers

October 27, 2019 |

In Washington, coalition of renewable fuel and agricultural trade organizations filed a petition Tuesday afternoon with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, challenging the process by which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted certain unknown small refineries from their respective Renewable Fuel Standard obligations for 2018. The coalition includes the […]

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