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Segetis: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Segetis: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 9, 2015 |

Segetis is a technology-enabled green chemistry company producing versatile chemical building blocks. Powered by its Javelin Technology, Segetis transforms simple carbohydrates into Levulinic Acid, a chemical building block recognized as a “top 12 value-added chemicals from Biomass” by the US Department of Energy. The sugar inputs can come from mono-saccharides such as glucose or fructose, […]

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4 minutes with… Brian Sefton, Founder, Chief Scientist, President, Oakbio

4 minutes with… Brian Sefton, Founder, Chief Scientist, President, Oakbio

April 8, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Oakbio has developed highly versitile microbial platforms and processes for waste carbon conversion. We have fluegas capture microbe, proven fluegas resistant, which producing PHAs and n-butanol. We also have an ecoli platform which can covert wastewater, agricultural waste and others to n-butanol. Both […]

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Benefuel: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Benefuel: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 8, 2015 |

Benefuel is a biodiesel process technology and production company based in Irving, Texas. The company has exclusive, global rights to next-generation technology for manufacturing biodiesel and bio- lubricants. Benefuel’s patented ENSEL process allows the company to produce biodiesel at a substantially lower cost than conventional methods by using lower cost, high free fatty acid feedstocks […]

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Answers for your Questions about biofuels, renewable chemicals, bioproducts and sustainable agriculture.

Answers for your Questions about biofuels, renewable chemicals, bioproducts and sustainable agriculture.

April 8, 2015 |

Amazing questions get asked at ABLC — and except for attendees, you generally don’t hear them, or the answers. Let’s change that. With great sessions at conferences, delegates are usually keen to get a hold of the powerpoint decks. But how do you get a hold of the great Q&A that follows the presentations — or […]

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Biofuels Digest Index slides to 67.35 as advanced biofuels slump

Biofuels Digest Index slides to 67.35 as advanced biofuels slump

April 8, 2015 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, lost 0.46 percent to 67.35 as advanced biofuels slumped. For the day, Algae.Tec (AEB.AX) dropped 8.77 percent to $0.05, while Shell (RDS) fell 3.69 percent to $59.83. Among other equities, Solayzyme (SZYM) rallied 2.17 percent to $3.29. Overall, declines led advances by a 2 […]

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4 minutes with… Richard Palmer, President & CEO, Global Clean Energy Holdings

4 minutes with… Richard Palmer, President & CEO, Global Clean Energy Holdings

April 7, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We develop non-food based oil seed crops to be used as a feedstock for biofuels and renewable chemicals. Our crops do not take away from food land and when grown at scale can compete with fossil based fuels without government subsidies. Our crops […]

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Biofuels Digest Index gains to 67.66 as enzymes advance

Biofuels Digest Index gains to 67.66 as enzymes advance

April 7, 2015 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 0.49 percent to 67.66 as enzymes advanced. For the day, Dyadic (DYAI) rebounded 8.00 percent to $1.35, while Amyris (AMRS) dropped 6.43 percent to $2.33. Among other equities, Solayzyme (SZYM) rallied 5.57 percent to $3.22. Overall, advances led declines by a 2 to […]

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Residue or Residon’t: Untapped fuel yields from the US corn production system

Residue or Residon’t: Untapped fuel yields from the US corn production system

April 7, 2015 |

Why not use the materials we don’t need, to produce the fuels we do need? The Digest looks at the hard data. Wherever you look, there are concerns about energy production — cost, infrastructure, environment, emissions, and water impact, just to name a few. No matter what energy system you develop, it seems like someone will […]

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New Energy Farms: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

New Energy Farms: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 7, 2015 |

New Energy Farms provides a complete solution to sourcing biomass feedstock, with extensive experience in commercial production of high yielding energy grasses. NEF is a vertically integrated business with operations from plant breeding, provision of planting material and new establishment techniques, through to consolidation of feedstock supplies for projects and full monitoring, including sustainability, of […]

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Biofuels Digest Index jumps to 67.33 as advanced biofuels gain

Biofuels Digest Index jumps to 67.33 as advanced biofuels gain

April 7, 2015 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, jumped 1.35 percent to 67.33 as advanced biofuels gained. For the day, Dyadic (DYAI) fell 11.30 percent to $1.25, while Gevo (GEVO) rebounded 10.88 percent to $0.21. Among other equities, Solayzyme (SZYM) was up 4.81 percent to $3.05. Overall, advances led declines by a […]

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