What’s the Department of Energy working on with respect to algae? The Bioenergy Technologies Office’s Alison Goss-Eng answered the question in this update, given at DOE Project Peer Review 2017. In this deck, she looks at milestones ahead, programs, goals and challenges.
In Minnesota, the US ethanol industry is descending upon Minneapolis this week for the annual Fuel Ethanol Workshops, and the theme is efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. You can feel the “get back to business” vibe, a steel-eyed “if you want a friend for ethanol, you can count on, get a puppy” perspective. The industry knows that growth […]
Conifex’s business is the harvesting of timber and the manufacture and sale of lumber, primarily for North American and Asian markets. Its sawmills process high-quality SPF logs into higher-grade and commodity-grade lumber, wood chips that are sold externally and used for pulp production, and other residual products for sale to wood pellet manufacturers, finger joint lumber […]
In Montana, Rivertop Renewables’ sodium glucarate has achieved registration under the European Chemical Agency’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals regulation. REACH registration opens the door for the commercial deployment of products derived from sodium glucarate in markets across Europe, including Waterline® CI and Headwaters® corrosion inhibitor and Rivertop’s Riose® detergent builder. Following the REACH registration, two European […]
In Washington, biotech industry veteran Vonnie Estes will receive the 4th annual Rosalind Franklin Award for Leadership in Industrial Biotechnology. The award will be presented on Tuesday July 25, 2017, during a lunch plenary session of the 2017 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. The world’s largest industrial biotechnology and partnering event will be held […]
In Canada, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada has made a COMM SCI investment in Origin Materials, Sacramento, California, through BIC’s Sustainable Chemistry Alliance investment fund, as part of an investment round that will see Origin construct its first commercial scale demonstration facility in Sarnia by late 2018. Origin has developed unique and proprietary technology which allows it […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 1.002 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 42.08 million gallons daily. That is up 3,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production decreased to 1.008 million b/d for an annualized rate of 15.45 billion gallons. Stocks […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the past weeks’ weakness in prices of GMO-free soybean meal reduced the price advantage of rapeseed meal over soybean meal as ingredients of compound feed. Over the past few weeks, German prices of GMO-free soybean meal dropped substantially. The rise in GMO-free soybean supply in South America curtailed the […]
In Austria, a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the physicist Serdar Sarıçiftçi had investigated possible uses in electronics of the semiconductor properties of indigo pigment. For a number of years, however, an alternative to silicon has been available: certain hydrocarbons that also exhibit semiconductor properties are now the new standard in OLED […]
In the UK, L’Oréal and Barry Callebaut joined as the newest members of the Palm Oil Innovation Group in search of responsibly produced palm oil. These companies join others in POIG that have committed to stepping up efforts to drive the much-needed transformation of the palm oil sector. POIG was recently recognised by the European Parliament as […]
