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Renewable chemicals, disruptive cost: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to BioAmber

Renewable chemicals, disruptive cost: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to BioAmber

February 11, 2016 |

From the company’s IPO Prospectus: “Our proprietary technology platform combines industrial biotechnology, an innovative purification process and chemical catalysis to convert renewable feedstocks into chemicals that are cost-competitive replacements for petroleum-derived chemicals. The development of our current organism was originally funded by the DOE in the late 1990s, was further developed and scaled up, and optimized at […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index sheds 3.17 percent to 44.94 as ethanol equities are hit hard

Digest Bioeconomy Index sheds 3.17 percent to 44.94 as ethanol equities are hit hard

February 11, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, shed 3.17 percent to 44.94 as ethanol equities were hit hard amidst broad market gloom. For the day, Green Plains (GPRE) fell 13.66 percent to $12.96, while Aemetis (AMTX) dumped 10.29 percent to $1.57. Among other equities, The Andersons (ANDE) plunged 10.88 percent […]

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Section 9003’s Success Helps Insure More Capital for Biorefineries

Section 9003’s Success Helps Insure More Capital for Biorefineries

February 10, 2016 |

By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Biotechnology Industry Organization USDA’s Section 9003 Program created by the comprehensive Farm Bill has successfully helped fund construction of biofuel biorefineries over the past six years and it is now expanding to launch renewable chemical facilities as well. Like other USDA programs, this loan guarantee enables manufacturers to access […]

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Gasoline is 30% dirtier than 10 years ago: new UCS report

Gasoline is 30% dirtier than 10 years ago: new UCS report

February 10, 2016 |

It’s not your Dad’s gasoline. In fact, it’s worse, says the Union of Concerned Scientists in a new report. But the good news is that alternatives, by contrast, are getting cleaner. In Washington, the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that the gas pumped by American motorists is 30 percent dirtier to extract and refine than […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index sheds 0.88 percent to 46.41 as large caps wilt

Digest Bioeconomy Index sheds 0.88 percent to 46.41 as large caps wilt

February 10, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, shed 0.88 percent to 46.41 as large caps wilted.  For the day, Green Plains (GPRE) fell 6.54 percent to $15.01, while Monsanto (MON) dumped 6.54 percent to $87.58. Among other equities, The Andersons (ANDE) declined 3.82 percent to $26.94. Overall, declines led advances […]

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A new, renewable, drop-in, waste-based fuel emerges, competitive with $30 oil

A new, renewable, drop-in, waste-based fuel emerges, competitive with $30 oil

February 9, 2016 |

Out of the EU comes a biogasoline blendstock made from waste residues in a novel process that promises to radically slash the cost of bioconversion. The Digest reports. In Germany and Portugal, a new drop-in biofuels process has emerged which is cost competitive with $30 oil, according to the inventors. The process breaks even with […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index slides 1.24 percent to 46.82 as ethanol slumps

Digest Bioeconomy Index slides 1.24 percent to 46.82 as ethanol slumps

February 9, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, slid 1.24 percent to 46.82 as ethanol slumped.  For the day, BioAmber (BIOA) fell 7.84 percent to $2.94, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) shed 6.25 percent yo $3.15. Among other equities, Global Bioenergies (ALGBE.PA) lost 4.85 percent to $20.61. Overall, declines led advances by […]

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The Extreme 16: Strutting microbial Terminators pumping up the pursuit of sustainable molecules

The Extreme 16: Strutting microbial Terminators pumping up the pursuit of sustainable molecules

February 8, 2016 |

Take it to the Extreme, with these microscopic wonders that are changing the way we pursue sustainable fuels, renewable chemicals and biobased materials. These days, researchers are turning up life forms trapped under hundreds of feet of Antarctic ice, in the syrupyist salty ponds, in mineral waters heated to more than 150 degrees Fahrenheit — in […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index drops 2.59 percent to 47.41 as advanced bio and ethanol retreat anew

Digest Bioeconomy Index drops 2.59 percent to 47.41 as advanced bio and ethanol retreat anew

February 8, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, dropped 2.59 percent to 47.41as advanced bio and ethanol retreated again.  For the day, BioAmber (BIOA) fell 14.48 percent to $3.19, while Gevo (GEVO) shed 11.51 percent to $0.36. Among other equities, Abengoa (ABGB) dropped 7.47 percent to $0.92. Overall, declines led advances […]

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Mega-Bio: Energy Department Announces $11.3M for Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels

Mega-Bio: Energy Department Announces $11.3M for Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels

February 8, 2016 |

The Energy Department today announced up to $11.3 million in funding to develop flexible biomass-to-hydrocarbon biofuels conversion pathways that can be modified to produce advanced fuels and/or products based on external factors, such as market demand. These pathways could consist of a route to a platform chemical that could be converted to products or renewable hydrocarbon […]

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