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Top 10 Biodiesel Trends 2018: what’s up with the world’s favorite advanced biofuel?

Top 10 Biodiesel Trends 2018: what’s up with the world’s favorite advanced biofuel?

June 6, 2018 |

It’s been a year of chop and change for biodiesel, the world’s favorite advanced biofuel. The quest for energy security, domestic jobs and reduced greenhouse gas emissions has felt like a Monte Carlo car rally: the pace has been fast, the turns have been dizzying, just when you feel that biodiesel is on top there’s […]

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The Protein Engineers: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Codexis

The Protein Engineers: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Codexis

June 5, 2018 |

Codexis is a leading protein engineering company that applies its technology to the development of biocatalysts for the commercial manufacture of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Codexis’ proven technology enables implementation of biocatalytic solutions to meet customer needs for rapid, cost-effective and sustainable manufacturing. The company gave this illuminating update on the company’s progress, promise, and […]

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Innovating Below Zero Carbon Renewable Fuels: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

Innovating Below Zero Carbon Renewable Fuels: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

June 5, 2018 |

Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants using patented technology to produce lower carbon, higher value advanced biofuels and chemicals using lower cost, non-food energy sources and feedstocks. Of special interest is the Aemetis cellulosic refinery using agricultural […]

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The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of June 6th, 2018

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of June 6th, 2018

June 5, 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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Maximizing Crop Yield: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Bioscience

Maximizing Crop Yield: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Bioscience

June 5, 2018 |

Yield10 Bioscience is an agricultural bioscience company focusing on the development of disruptive technologies to produce step-change improvements in crop yield for food and feed crops to enhance global food security. Experts forecast that food production must be increased by over 70% in the next 35 years to feed the growing global population, which is […]

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The Carbon Rescuers: 20 Top Waste projects and breakthroughs that capture used carbon from the waste pile for new uses

The Carbon Rescuers: 20 Top Waste projects and breakthroughs that capture used carbon from the waste pile for new uses

June 4, 2018 |

In these top 20 projects, we usually say that we are using waste, but really we are converting something from a state of waste to a state of value — and that’s not just good for the project owners in question, it’s good for every stakeholder connected with that waste stream. A successful waste project […]

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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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