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Strategic Intent: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM

Strategic Intent: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM

June 4, 2018 |

Royal DSM is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. By connecting its unique competences in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences, DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to create sustainable value for all stakeholders. DSM delivers innovative solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance in global markets such […]

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The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ARA’s ReadiJet drop-in renewable fuel technology

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ARA’s ReadiJet drop-in renewable fuel technology

June 1, 2018 |

ReadiJet contains the same molecules and has the same performance as petroleum jet fuel, all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It meets Jet-A, Jet-A1, JP-5, JP-8 fuel specifications without the need for blending with petroleum.  ReadiJet is undergoing ASTM certification for commercial use and MILSPEC certification for operational use by the US Navy. On October […]

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The Always & Forever Department: Immortality bioscience aims at dogs now, humans later

The Always & Forever Department: Immortality bioscience aims at dogs now, humans later

May 31, 2018 |

It may surprise some, who have been planning on funding their retirements for a couple of decades, to learn that there is a science of immortality at all. It will shock most to discover that work is progressing on specific age-defying technologies from mice to dogs, and that human trials may be on the radar […]

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The west’s pure-play ethanol kings: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Pacific Ethanol

The west’s pure-play ethanol kings: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Pacific Ethanol

May 31, 2018 |

Pacific Ethanol was founded in 2003 as the first pure-play ethanol company and today is a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels with 9 strategically located bio-refineries in the U.S., production capacity of 605M gallons/yr., a current run rate of 1B gallons/yr. of marketing volume, and co-product production capacity of over 1.5M tons/yr. (on a […]

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Canada ❤ bioneers: BioIndustrial Innovation Canada & Ontario bust another move in the bioeconomy with Comet Biorefining invest

Canada ❤ bioneers: BioIndustrial Innovation Canada & Ontario bust another move in the bioeconomy with Comet Biorefining invest

May 30, 2018 |

In Canada, Ontario is investing up to $8 million in Comet Biorefining’s $79.8 million bio-based ingredient project through its Jobs and Prosperity Fund – Food and Beverage Growth Fund. The investment will help to establish the world’s first commercial-scale bio-based ingredient refinery in Ontario. The news is just part of the picture for BioIndustrial Innovation […]

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The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Energy Group

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Energy Group

May 30, 2018 |

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGI) is a leading provider of cleaner, lower carbon intensity products and services. The company is a major  international producer of biomass-based diesel, a developer of renewable chemicals and North America’s largest producer of advanced biofuel. REG utilizes an integrated procurement, distribution, and logistics network to convert natural fats, oils, […]

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The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of May 30th, 2018

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of May 30th, 2018

May 29, 2018 |

The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of significant product and service advances. For now, we’re going to be tracking these on a weekly basis to keep pace with the changes. Here are the top innovations for the week […]

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BioDisruption: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris

BioDisruption: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris

May 28, 2018 |

For many people, a key question in the advanced bioeconomy is: “what is Amyris becoming, and when, and where and how?” Becoming a global leader in the health and beauty market, and self-funding operations in 2018 with at least $10 million in EBITDA this year — those are the answers appearing out of Emeryville now. […]

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Low Carbon’s Eternal Braid: The Clean Air Act, California’s CAA Waiver, Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, Renewable Fuel Standards and California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Low Carbon’s Eternal Braid: The Clean Air Act, California’s CAA Waiver, Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, Renewable Fuel Standards and California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

May 28, 2018 |

The Whole Darn Low Carbon Landscape. How they Work, How they Work Together, and How they Might Work Better by Joanne Ivancic, executive director, Advanced Biofuels USA Special to The Digest The Trump Administration is taking a new look at Obama Administration era Co2 regulations.  On the transportation side, these include reviewing Corporate Average Fuel […]

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Integrated, hedged, evolving: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

Integrated, hedged, evolving: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

May 27, 2018 |

Founded in 2004, Green Plains Inc. is North America’s third largest producer of ethanol. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Green Plains has grown rapidly, primarily through acquisitions, and today has operating segments throughout the ethanol value chain. Operations begin upstream with a grain handling segment, continue through approximately 1.5 billion gallons of ethanol production capacity per […]

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