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NatureWorks Creates Performance Chemicals Division and Launches Vercet Product Line

NatureWorks Creates Performance Chemicals Division and Launches Vercet Product Line

June 25, 2017 |

In Minnesota, NatureWorks has formed a Performance Chemicals Division to supply lactides, polyols, binder resins, and chemical intermediates to companies that manufacture innovative C.A.S.E. (coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers), toners, and fine chemicals. Vercet is a new tunable platform of lactide-based chemistries from the NatureWorks Performance Chemicals Division. The customizable properties of Vercet polyols provide […]

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RFA’s Cooper Receives 2017 High Octane Award

RFA’s Cooper Receives 2017 High Octane Award

June 25, 2017 |

In Washington, Renewable Fuels Association Senior Vice President Geoff Cooper has been awarded the 2017 High Octane Award, presented by BBI International and Ethanol Producer Magazine at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Minneapolis. The award, established in 2000 by BBI International, recognizes a person “who has helped the ethanol industry mature and progress over the […]

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S2G BioChem Building Advanced BioRefinery in Sarnia: Production of Xylitol to Begin in 2018

S2G BioChem Building Advanced BioRefinery in Sarnia: Production of Xylitol to Begin in 2018

June 25, 2017 |

In Canada, S2G BioChem has started work on the company’s first standalone biorefinery demonstration plant that it intends to build in Sarnia, Ontario. The commercial-scale facility will refine local, sustainable forestry and agricultural residues using S2G’s patented process to produce the lowest-cost and highest-value food ingredient xylitol available on the market today while co-producing value-add bioglycols for a […]

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Breathing room: Gevo refinances current year debt through 2020

Breathing room: Gevo refinances current year debt through 2020

June 25, 2017 |

In Colorado, WB Gevo, Ltd. the holder of the Company’s issued and outstanding Senior Secured Convertible Notes, due June 23, 2017 exchanged all $16.5 million of the existing 2017 Notes for $16.5 million of the Company’s newly created 12.0% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due March 15, 2020. The 2020 Notes are convertible, at the option […]

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Mexico OKs E10 ethanol limit excepting 3 cities

Mexico OKs E10 ethanol limit excepting 3 cities

June 25, 2017 |

In Mexico, The Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission will increase the maximum amount of ethanol that can be blended in Mexican gas supplies from 5.8 percent to 10 percent, except in the cities of Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City. 

The announcement modifies the Mexican Official Standard NOM 016-CRE-2016 regarding the quality specifications for fuels by increasing […]

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Can’t Get No (Liquefaction): The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide Liquefaction of Forest Biomass to Drop-in Fuels

Can’t Get No (Liquefaction): The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide Liquefaction of Forest Biomass to Drop-in Fuels

June 22, 2017 |

Lysle Whitmer on behalf of an Iowa State-led group of researchers gave this illuminating overview of Liquefaction of Forest Biomass to Drop-in Fuels, at the 2017 DOE Project Peer Review sessions.

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Two Up: Amyris, Queensland gamble on farnesene for SE Asia

Two Up: Amyris, Queensland gamble on farnesene for SE Asia

June 22, 2017 |

  The Digest discovered this hand-written lyric, we think written with a thumbnail dipped in biocrude, near Amyris headquarters in Emeryville, California. Somewhere north of Byron Bay where Cooktown orchids grow, and cane is ever-present and the Pioneer River flows, there’ll be a group of smarties along the coastal towns hawking tonnes of bio farnesene for a zillion yuan a […]

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Two Up: Amyris, Queensland gamble on farnesene for SE Asia

Two Up: Amyris, Queensland gamble on farnesene for SE Asia

June 22, 2017 |

  The Digest discovered this hand-written lyric, we think written with a thumbnail dipped in biocrude, near Amyris headquarters in Emeryville, California. Somewhere north of Byron Bay where Cooktown orchids grow, and cane is ever-present and the Pioneer River flows there’ll be a group of smarties along the coastal towns hawking tonnes of bio farnesene for a zillion yuan a […]

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The Yottabyte, Hyperspeed Economy, and you

The Yottabyte, Hyperspeed Economy, and you

June 22, 2017 |

If you saw this story on the Internet this week: You may be wondering about the roles that industrial biotechnology, big data, genetics, robotics and advanced computing are playing and will play in the “entire industries are about to become toast” game. This video about innovation and convergence, and the implications — may be of use […]

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Explosive new ICCT report says “offsets” will dominate “alternative fuels” in aviation

Explosive new ICCT report says “offsets” will dominate “alternative fuels” in aviation

June 21, 2017 |

“Bulk of aviation emissions reductions will be achieved through carbon offsets,” not fuels, writes ICCT Slow scale-up foreseen for biofuels Challenges in feedstock costs Carbon pricing too little, too late The fatal distortion lies in petroleum markets In Washington, the International Council on Clean Transport reports that “it is likely that the bulk of aviation […]

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