In Australia, from January 1, 2017 Queensland liable fuel retailors will be required by law to ensure that up to 3 per cent of their total regular unleaded and ethanol-blended petrol sales each quarter are bio-based fuels, such as ethanol. Biodiesel is a part of this mandate and requires 0.5 per cent of all diesel […]
In California, researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed four new technologies available for license: Streamlined Saccharification from Lignocellulosic Biomass, 2015-143 Translation Control Tool for Plans, 2013-166 Determining Ligninases Activities through Nanostructure Initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS), 2016-109 Lanthanide-Chelator Barcode for Combinatorial Screening Applications, 2016-121 Berkeley Lab […]
By Gerald Kutney Special to The Digest Breaking News: a Canadian venture has just moved up into the #1 spot of the “Top 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy,” according to the annual survey by Biofuels Digest – Advent Bioenergy (season2bjolly.ca), founded by the reclusive entrepreneur, S. Claus. Lee Enterprises Consulting is proud to […]
In France, Global Bioenergies agreed to acquire Netherlands-based gas fermentation company Syngip for €1.02M, with a milestone-based bonus that could boost the acquisition price up to €1.775M. The acquisition price includes assumption of €150K of Syngip’s debt. The deal is subject to shareholder approval. The ultimate goal Syngip talked here about the possibility of producing […]
In the UK, molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications. The study, led by a father and son team at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, solves a […]
News of high-level appointments have been streaming out of Trump Tower all this week and last, and two trends are already clear: it’s a group mostly out of the business and military communities, and there’s a pivot to Russia on. To us, it feels like the Nixon 1969 playbook, with one play run in reverse, […]
The old Christmas carol goes, “I saw three ships come sailing in,” and those perched on a widow’s walk this morning might have espied Anellotech, Edeniq, Novvi steaming in with material advances in their respective stories. For Anellotech, a new technology to extend catalyst life by reducing catalyst poisons that cause catalyst and product cost […]
In Washington, biobased industry veteran Cynthia L. Thyfault, CEO of Westar Trade Resources, was elected as Chairman of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee , at the December 1, 2016 committee meeting. REEEAC’s mission is to advise the US Secretary of Commerce on programs and policies that will increase U.S. exports, leading to […]
In South Korea, BioAmber and CJ CheilJedang Corporation signed a LOI for a joint venture in China to produce up to 36,000 metric tons of bio-succinic acid per year. It’s not a greenfield. The CJCJ JV involves a retrofit of an existing fermentation plant in a market that BioAmber cannot readily penetrate today. How is […]
It may be a sign of the times, a sense of worry that R&D for renewable transport fuels may lose all their popularity under the incoming Trump Administration. Whatever the cause, the biggest set of projects announced in renewable fuels since the days of the Recovery Act have been just announced by the Advanced Research […]
