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? The technology was developed to provide a way to address two growing problems that exist in both the developed and […]
By Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and former Sen. Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.) Special to The Digest The question of how best to address environmental challenges has increasingly become a partisan flashpoint. So, when there is a green solution on which many Republicans and Democrats see eye-to-eye, as we do, it’s worth paying attention. It’s time to […]
Scars are a sign you’ve been there and survived. You overcame. You learned something, maybe the hard way. And Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo, a company that produces low-carbon, renewable, high-performance fuel products, shows us just how beautiful scars can be. Check out his illuminating presentation where he shares what Gevo has learned over the […]
Dawn Technology has nothing to do with the dish soap and everything to do with the biorefinery process for industrial sugars and lignin from non-food biomass by Avantium. Mekong Technology is all about Avantium’s Catalytic, single-step process for producing plant-based (MEG) from industrial sugars. And why is it a new day with these breakthrough technologies […]
LanzaTech has produced 5.5 million gallons of ethanol since start up and has compelling project economics to back it up. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech gave this ‘Carbon Smart’ overview of how LanzaTech is recycling carbon from industrial off gas biomass and MSW syngas and turning it into valuable product, how their genome-scale model guided […]
Like many other companies in the agriculture and food ingredient markets, ADM is affected by the weather. But bad weather isn’t stopping this company as indicated in their Q2 presentation especially with health and wellness and animal nutrition up on year over year numbers. Check out their highlights from the second quarter as well as […]
By David Kaminski, Senior Vice President, Vice President of Technology, QED Environmental Systems, Inc. Special to The Digest In all types of environmental testing, using proper sample collection methods is vitally important, as the data analyzed in the laboratory is only as good as the quality of samples collected in the field. Soil testing and […]
As the end of summer approaches, county fairs are popping up around the U.S. and with it, churros and other waste. But innovators are turning churro waste fats into renewable diesel, using edible flavored spoons to avoid fair waste, rain ponchos made from sugarcane-based bioplastic, packaging from cornstarch and spruce wood, and more. Here are […]
By Ron Cascone and Steven Slome, Nexant Special to The Digest Filling the tank on the road to the future The term “fatty acid methyl ester” or FAME has been synonymous with biodiesel for the better part of the last two decades that have seen its widespread promotion and use. This has been due to […]
Innovation is great but without implementation, the story ends there. Not so for ICM, a Kanasas-based company that took its small business roots in a farming community and an idea and turned it into 1/3 of the world’s ethanol produced every year by ICM technologies. With over 21 patents they don’t just have the innovations […]
