At the ABLC NEXT 2015 conference in San Francisco, Virent took the #1 spot in the 2015-16 “40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read advanced bioeconomy daily. The Hot 40 recognizes companies with less than 100 full-time employees and $20 million or less in […]
At ABLC NEXT, PrecisionHawk and Genera Energy announced a partnership to develop new analysis algorithms specific to improving the efficiency and quality of sustainable biomass crop production and distribution. The algorithms will convert raw aerial imagery collected by drones and satellites into an actionable report for biomass crop farmers. The tools will be publicly licensed […]
Here are some recent issues highlighted by day one speakers at ABLC Next 2015, which opens in San Francisco today. Mike McAdams, ABFA
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, gained 1.33 percent to 55.00 as advanced bio equities surged. For the day, Abengoa (ABGB) soared 20.04 percent to $5.51, while BioAmber (BIOA) rocketed up 8.29 percent to $7.84. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) lifted 12.25 percent to $3.39. Overall, advances led declines […]
DuPont dreamed it, thousands built it, now see it. In Iowa, DuPont opened its 30 million gallon cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, IA — which becomes the world’s largest cellulosic biofuels refinery opened to date. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Iowa senior Senator Charles Grassley, Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds, and Congressman Steve King were the headliners […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for the week in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. This week, with the Hot 40 at a close, we’re now focused on Hot 50 Photo Votes. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company,” said Digest editor Jim Lane, “in the strange […]
In California, Solazyme reported Q3 revenue of $11.4M compared with $17.6M for Q3 2014.The year over year decline in revenues was due to expected decreases in funded program revenue and slower than anticipated adoption rates for Encapso lubricant, the company said. On a sequential quarter basis, revenues were roughly unchanged due to improved Algenist performance, […]
In Denmark, Novozymes reached #1 in Science Magazine’s annual Top Employers Survey today. The survey polls employees in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and related industries to determine the 20 best employers globally. The key driving characteristics of the ranking were ‘Innovative leader in the industry’, ‘Treats employees with respect’ and ‘Is socially responsible’. “We are very […]
In Washington, Fuels America will launch a seven-figure TV and digital ad campaign Friday morning depicting President Obama’s choice of who to listen to when it comes to the Renewable Fuel Standard: his own experts who have repeatedly shown that ethanol and renewable fuel is dramatically reducing carbon emissions, or the oil industry, which has […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that rapeseed exports of the EU-28 member states to third countries amounted to 260,000 tonnes in total. At the same time, trading of rapeseed oil within the Community was in excess of eleven times this quantity, totalling 3.3 million tonnes. According to Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft GmbH (AMI), Germany was the single most […]
