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Taking off: Velocys, Shell, British Airways,  UK Government, New Energy Risk, Red Rock Biofuels, TCG Global, PQ, and Advanced Plasma Power figure in key renewable jet fuel project advances

Taking off: Velocys, Shell, British Airways,  UK Government, New Energy Risk, Red Rock Biofuels, TCG Global, PQ, and Advanced Plasma Power figure in key renewable jet fuel project advances

June 20, 2018 |

New Energy Risk’s new performance insurance for TCG Global’s gasifiers and a significant project advance from Velocys in the UK are on the docket today.  These companies and the news this morning are united as key project components in the Red Rock Biofuels project which breaks ground in Lakeview, Oregon next month, aiming to supply […]

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The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of June 21st, 2018

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of June 21st, 2018

June 19, 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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Succinic’s next season: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to BioAmber

Succinic’s next season: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to BioAmber

June 19, 2018 |

BioAmber’s Mission? To be a fast growing producer of chemical intermediates that uses sugars instead of fossil fuels and sells competitively priced, sustainable chemicals with strong profit margins and the cleanest environmental footprint in the industry. In this overview of the company’s progress and promise, we’ve combined the most recent ABLC presentation by CEO Rick […]

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

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

June 19, 2018 |

Novozymes is a world leader in biological solutions. Together with customers, partners and the global community, the company supplies innovations to the world’s leading companies across 40 markets. Best known for industrial enzymes, the company is highly active also in agriculture, biomass conversion, ethanol production and more. Here we have an illuminating look at Novozymes’ […]

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Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now?

June 19, 2018 |

In today’s Digest, we look at some of the industry rock star leaders of recent years who have moved on to other duties. Some have remained within the sector, in several cases in equally or more prominent roles — some are soaring with the eagles elsewhere. But they were always interesting, dynamic, sharp, worth knowing […]

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Back to business: G20 energy minsters affirm drive towards renewables, innovation, cooperation

Back to business: G20 energy minsters affirm drive towards renewables, innovation, cooperation

June 18, 2018 |

The cold snap that invaded the Patagonia resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche in recent days is fading now as the G20 Energy Ministerial wraps up and heads home.  A light rain cleared the slush off the streets, and a brilliant sunset greeted those who delayed their departure until the weekend. A handful turned […]

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Agriculturally advantaged traits: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

Agriculturally advantaged traits: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

June 18, 2018 |

Calyxt is pioneering a paradigm shift to deliver both healthier specialty food ingredients, such as healthier oils and high fiber wheat for consumers as well as agriculturally advantageous traits, such as herbicide tolerance to farmers. The technology enables Calyxt to precisely and specifically edit a plant genome to elicit the desired traits and characteristics, resulting […]

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

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

June 16, 2018 |

The Andersons operate four ethanol plants for respective LLCs in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Iowa that are collectively capable of producing over 475 million gallons of ethanol.  The company’s Ethanol Group provides facility operations, risk management, ethanol and distiller dried grains marketing. The Andersons’ recently provided this illuminating overview of its progress towards its strategic goals, and […]

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The Battle for Yeast Supremacy: DSM, DuPont, Novozymes and more

The Battle for Yeast Supremacy: DSM, DuPont, Novozymes and more

June 14, 2018 |

FEW, the Fuel Ethanol Workshops, have come and gone for 2018 and the story this year was yeast. Specifically, a war on yield fermentation time, energy use and more.  Let’s review the big gambits from the likes of DSM, DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Novozymes as they duke it out over market share in an era […]

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

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

June 14, 2018 |

Corbion is a global market leader in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, and a leading company in emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, vitamins and algae ingredients. In 2017, the company generated annual sales of € 891.7 million and had a workforce of 1,794 FTE. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. The company gave this illuminating overview […]

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