There are 17,576 possible 3-letter acronyms in the Roman alphabet and sometimes it feels as it the chemical industry and the military have used them all up. Three letter acronyms are so prevalent they have spawned their own acronym, TLA. Once, the Navy’s Director for Operational Energy, Chris Tindal, opened up a session at which […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, jumped 1.25 percent to 53.60 as advanced bio rallied on TerraVia’s progress up the charts. For the day, TerraVia (SZYM) soared 20.80 percent to $2.73, while Amyris (AMRS) fell back 5.00 percent to $1.14. Among other equities, Aemetis (AMTX) gained 2.83 percent to […]
This past week, we conducted a popular webinar on the Hot 50 as part of the March Madness 2016 series. Many participants asked for the underlying slides, for download and offline review. So, here they are. Meanwhile, the complete recorded version including comments on companies and the no-holds-barred, interactive Q&A with readers is here.
In New York, Anellotech has received an additional $3 million equity investment from an unnamed and confidential multinational strategic investor and corporate partner. As previously announced on November 18, 2015, Anellotech received the first $7 million tranche of this now total $10 million investment from this investor. The capital will be used to fund the […]
In the EU, a consortium of European companies and research institutions, with Borregaard as lead member, has applied for financial support for the development and commercialization of Borregaard’s Exilva microfibrillar cellulose under the Horizon 2020 Flagship program, the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation. The application has been positively evaluated, and it is now […]
In Michigan, PHYCO2 is reporting “a technology breakthrough” in Phase I of the multi-year trial with Michigan State University (MSU). The technology partnership set out to capture manmade carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas emission (GHG)) and create renewable alternative energy feedstock. Phase I proved the technology can capture significant amounts of CO2 for high-density algae cultivation […]
In Washington, Growth Energy blasted the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Interior and the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules for an oversight hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)that “without any biofuels stakeholders is unacceptable and defeats the very purpose of what this congressional committee […]
In Illinois, zuChem has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institutes of Health. The grant, led by Principal Investigator Micah Shepherd, will support development of new fermentative production methods for L-fucose and other rare sugar products of interest to the life sciences industry. L-fucose is one of […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, US ethanol production averaged 999,000 barrels per day, or 41.96 million gallons daily. That is up 21,000 b/d from the week before and the highest total in nine weeks. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 989,000 b/d for an annualized […]
In Italy, Metalvuoto have debuted a new generation of biobased flexible substrates designed to keep processed foods fresh on store shelves, based on NatureWorks’s high barrier Ingeo polymers. While Ingeo film has been used for years in fresh food packaging, this is the first application for longer shelf life foods that are increasingly packaged in […]
