By Pavel Molchanov, Senior Vice President, Raymond James This week, we attended the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, a major annual gathering of firms in the bioindustrial space. As we noted in our conference recap from March 2015, the industry’s focus had been pivoting away from transportation fuels well before the oil meltdown began in mid-2014. […]
In Washington, the American Chemical Society in cooperation with LanzaTech, Intrexon and other leading bio-based chemical companies, announced at ABLC the formation of a Biochemical Technology Leadership Roundtable. This collaboration will identify and address key scientific challenges such as those relating to scaling up biochemical technologies in a sustainable way. Membership is open to all […]
In Louisiana, Whitefox Technologies Limited announced at the National Ethanol Conference an agreement with Iowa-based Pine Lake Corn Processors to install the first Whitefox ICESolution in the Mid-West. PLCP operates a 30-million gallon per year ethanol plant in Steamboat Rock, Iowa. Whitefox’s technology reduces energy consumption, increases production efficiencies and contributes to the production of […]
In Quebec, BioFuelNet Canada has partnered with Talk Energy Week to participate as panelists at schools in eight Canadian cities, where they will be discussing sustainable advanced biofuels with over 1800 grade 11 and 12 students. Each participating classroom will be sent a series of educational infographics, illustrating various types of biofuels, where they come […]
In Germany, UFOP said that cash market prices for rapeseed barely maintained the price gap against the previous year. Prices buyers currently pay for the upcoming crop are even below the year-ago level. The massive decline in crude oil prices and the temporarily firm euro sent rapeseed prices in Paris plummeting to the lowest level […]
In California, Amyris closed a $20 million private placement of unsecured promissory notes to existing investors. In connection with this financing, the company also issued warrants for 2.9 million shares of common stock. The private placement was led by a long-term investor affiliated with one of Amyris’s board members, John Doerr, of the venture capital […]
In Germany, Clariant and Werner & Mertz have launched a project to expand the applications of bioethanol made from agricultural residues such as straw to detergents, cleansers and cleaning agents. sunliquid bioethanol has been used in Frosch Bio-Spirit Multisurface-Cleaner since the beginning of the year. As part of this, Clariant supplied the cellulosic ethanol, also […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 975,000 barrels per day (b/d)—or 40.95 million gallons daily. That is up 6,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 966,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 14.81 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol […]
In Washington state, Matrix Genetics and Proterro will jointly produce high-value nutritional products in Spirulina. Matrix will develop the Spirulina strains and Proterro will grow these strains on their proprietary production system. Matrix was the first company to offer rapid and efficient genetic methods for modifying Spirulina, which unlocks this organism’s high protein content, rich […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, was flat at 48.01 despite an advanced bio dip. For the day,Biox (BX.T) lost 12.86 percent to $0.61, while Gevo (GEVO) dumped 8.15 percent to $0.36. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) rebounded 4.61 percent to $1.59. Overall, advances and declines were even for […]
