The full text of the State of the Union address, as released by the White House just before the speech’s delivery. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I’m going […]
In Florida, early voting rankings were released today for 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, representing roughly 90% of the overall subscriber vote expected. Subscriber voting ends Friday, January 15 at 5pm ET. The Hot 50 rankings will be announced live at ABLC 2016 in Washington DC at 6pm on February 17, 2016. Below, we’ve […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for this week in the 2016 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy competition. Amyris, REG (3 winners), Stora Enso, LanzaTech (4 winners) and Novozymes took home the winning bonus votes this week. Voting continues through January 15th, 2016 at 5pm ET. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company,” said Digest editor […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, slipped 0.45 percent to 49.07 as advanced bio equities tumbled. For the day, BioAmber (BIOA) shed 5.34 percent to $5.49, while Amyris (AMRS) lost 5.96 percent to $1.42. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) dumped 13.75 percent to $0.41. Overall, declines led advances by […]
Sometimes, the set-up of the transition from fossil fuels is as pretty and impractical as Dr. Doolittle’s Pushmi-Pullyu. The Digest investigates. As you may have noticed in the stories around the launch of the Great Green Fleet, it is a complex maze of relationships when it comes to a technology benefitting from mandates like the […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, dropped 1.04 percent to 49.29 as falling oil prices weighed on sector equities. For the day, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dumped 11.81 percent to $3.36, while Abengoa (ABGB) rallied 4.10 percent to $1.27. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) dumped 9.43 percent to $0.46. Overall, […]
As Global Bioenergies, LanzaTech tighten isobutene partnership, the era of “swap-in, swap out” biorefining microbes comes clearer, closer In France, Global Bioenergies and LanzaTech signed a new collaboration agreement to broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies’ Isobutene process and the product-portfolio of LanzaTech’s carbon capture technology. The news illustrates a new trend in the […]
By Mark Warner, PE, Founder, Warner Advisors LLC, Special to The Digest What does a relationship book from the 1990’s have to do with successfully scaling up biotechnology? More than you would expect. In this case, we are substituting engineers and business developers, then focusing on the differences in how they view biotechnology commercialization and the […]
In Illinois, zuChem announced a multi-year process development, commercial product supply and marketing agreement with Qianyan Alloy Materials, Ltd. for the sugar building block l-fucose. Qianyan Alloy Materials provides a unique combination of Western quality and intellectual property protection, together with rapid and efficient process development, and production of food ingredients and pharmaceutical chemicals at its facilities in the […]
In the UK, Velocys plc appointed of David Pummell as Chief Executive Officer. He joins Velocys from ACAL Energy Ltd, a private equity backed fuel cell technology company developing products for the automotive and stationary power sectors, where he was CEO. Prior to this, David was CEO of MAPS Technology Ltd, where he successfully commercialised […]
