Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Biobased Maine is active in Maine’s efforts to diversify its forest-based economy through biobased manufacturing. We know that Maine’s abundance of second-generation feedstock is an attractive asset to many investors. Our strong history of pulp and paper manufacturing continues, with permitted mills available […]
EnerSysNet Canada Inc., Ontario, Canada The Situation EnerSysNet Canada Inc.’s mission is to develop modular systems that enable the forest residuals to hydrocarbon economy. Oxygen-free, liquid hydrocarbons would be produced from sustainably managed timber reserves by a distributed network of small, self-contained biorefineries that literally take the factory to the forest. Top past Milestones ESN […]
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Ghent, Belgium The Situation Open innovation pilot facility for bio-process development, scale-up and custom manufacturing with a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment for fermentation, purification, ATEX green chemistry, biomass pretreatment and biocatalysis, up to 10 ton scale. 70 employees, 8 years operational experience, 24/7, customers worldwide. We served >200 companies […]
Lee Enterprises Consulting Inc’s headquarters is near Little Rock, Arkansas. Our consultants are located around the world. Our team has frequent interactions and participate in team and individual calls on an on-going basis. The Situation LEC is a network of bioeconomy experts with experience from lab and plant floor to boardroom that puts together interdisciplinary […]
Lignin Enterprises, LLC, Charleston, SC USA The Situation We have three business elements: 1) providing engineering support to pulp and paper companies wanting to use our SLRP lignin recovery technology; 2) marketing and selling lignin regardless of how it’s made, currently focusing on West Fraser’s Lignin A made in Hinton AB Canada, and 3) developing […]
In the world of bio-oil production, current technologies have low carbon retention in fuel range and high hydrogen consumption. The DOE is supporting a project led by Daniel Resasco at the University of Oklahoma to develop a more effective fractionation, combined with catalytic upgrading for carbon-carbon bond formation. The ultimate objective? Maximizing carbon efficiency at […]
Novozymes moved into yeast this week with a new organism, Innova Drive. It’s saccharomyces cerevisae — the workhouse yeast that has been powering wine fermentation since the days of Noah and the Ark. But here’s a new strain engineered to cut fermentation times up to two hours, and yield boosts of up to two percent. A […]
By Jeremy Gilpin, Jordan Blanchard, and Cindy Thyfault, National Rural Lenders Association Special to The Digest There has been a keen focus the last few weeks for President Trump and the USDA with the release of the Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Report, President Trump’s recent speech to the Farm Bureau, and the […]
The project goal? To produce and commercialize lignin-derived, industrial-grade composites with properties including 3D printability, rivaling current petroleum-derived alternatives. That’s the project undertaken by a team led by Amit K. Naskar, of the Carbon & Composites Group Materials Science & Technology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The hoped-for project outcome? A novel family […]
Netherlands-based GoodFuels Marine is on the move. We reported last month that VARO Energy subsidiary REINPLUS FIWADO Bunker and GoodFuels Marine will work together to make European inland shipping more sustainable. As a result, the sustainable advanced biofuels from GoodFuels Marine are now also available at the port of Rotterdam, and will be available along […]
