These days, we don’t call it algae, we call it nutritional superfood, and we don’t call our furry friends “pets”, we call them companion animals. I suppose to distinguish them from wild animals, work animals, and the ones we reserve for, er, eating. But it’s a good name. Companion as a word comes from the […]
In yesterday’s Digest, we covered the topic of RINferno, the controversy over rising RIN prices and the impact on parties in the Renewable Fuel Standard — refiners, and potentially fuel terminal operators. Today, let’s look at impact on producers — and specifically the catastrophic impact of current RIN prices on advanced biofuels. The advanced biofuels […]
Let me see if we got this right. Donald Trump loves the Renewable Fuel Standard Carl Icahn loves Donald Trump Therefore, Carl Icahn hates the Renewable Fuel Standard With that, welcome to the 2016 United States Presidential election season. And welcome to something that used to be called RINsanity and now we had better call RINferno. […]
In Canada, BioAmber recorded net income of $4.8M for Q2 2016 and an operating loss of $1.0M on revenues of $2.5M. Revenues were up 73 percent over Q1 and 637 percent compared to Q2 2015. For those less familiar with the company, it produces succinic acid from sugar at a first commercial-scale plant which opened […]
In California, Amyris reported a Q2 net loss of $13.8M on revenues of $9,6M, up from $7.8M in Q2 2015. Revenues rose 27% from the corresponding period in 2015 primarily driven by the shipment of a new novel fragrance product, as well as Neossance Squalane sales. At the same time, Amyris, which has recorded $18.4M […]
In Washington, US farmers are “poised to harvest a record corn crop this fall and achieve the highest yield per acre in U.S. history”, according to new U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates which project the 2016 corn crop at 15.15 billion bushels, with a record average yield of 175.1 bushels per acre. Corn ending stocks […]
In Missouri, engineers at Washington University have found a new way to boost biofuel production in E. coli bacteria by altering its protein structure. Fuzhong Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, along with researchers in his lab, reported in the journal Metabolic Engineering that they have discovered a new method […]
In California, a US Navy research team at China Lake led by Ben Harvey reported that 2,3-Butanediol, which has received a significant amount of interest based on the ability to generate it at much higher titer than n-butanol owing tothe relatively low toxicity of 2,3-BD to the producing organism, “can be converted to butenes over bifunctional […]
In Nebraska, Green Plains priced its offering of $170 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2022, which was upsized from the previously announced $150 million aggregate principal amount of notes. The notes will mature on September 1, 2022 and will bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.125% per year. On and […]
In Switzerland, Evolva said that “testing is underway by the US Navy of materials fabricated from special formulation of Evolva’s resveratrol.” Evolva’s collaboration with the US Navy (NAVAIR research facility, China Lake, California) is aiming to develop novel composite materials is to focus on the development of a new class of structural composite materials engineered […]
