Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. OriginOil has developed a breakthrough water cleanup technology for water-intensive industries. The company’s patent-pending Electro Water SeparationTM process rapidly and efficiently removes insoluble inorganic and organic material (fine suspended solids) from large quantities of water without the need for chemicals. Tell us about your […]
To make fuel, chemicals, fiber, food more productively than ever before — it starts in the field with the New Agriculture. Here’s what’s happening as Silicon Valley converges with Silicon Farm. We heard this past week from California that Finistere Ventures, a California-based innovation capital firm and one of the pioneers in the rapidly growing […]
Iogen says it has has “one of the world’s largest and most experienced teams in developing, designing, de-bugging, scaling-up and deploying cellulosic biofuel technology. We’re using innovative thinking and disciplined engineering to transform cellulosic biofuels into real, reliable and cost-effective fuels for today’s cars and trucks.” The first commercial cellulosic ethanol facility based on Iogen […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 1.25 percent to 66.36 as ethanol equities advanced. For the day, Green Plains (GPRE) soared percent to $14.97, while Gevo (GEVO) rocketed up 12.68 percent to $0.28. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) retreated 15.62 percent to $0.33. Overall, advances led declines by a […]
The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]
By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental, Biotechnology Industry Organization Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced funding for the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) as well as published the final rule for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BIO and the industrial biotech sector worked hard to ensure that these and other […]
Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. BiCHEM produces platform chemicals from biomass. It uses an inexpensive, recyclable solvent to break down cellulose and hemicellulose into sugars. These sugars are converted into base chemicals for amongst others the production of fuel additives. Another application is the conversion of sugars into bioethanol […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dropped 1.66 percent to 66.36 as advanced biofuels retreated. For the day, Ceres (CERE) fell 13.11 percent to $0.39, while The Andersons (ANDE) lost 7.16 percent to $42.11. Among other equities, Amemetis (AMTX) rallied 4.04 percent to $4.96. Overall, declines led advances by a […]
Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants using patented technology to produce lower carbon, higher value advanced biofuels and chemicals using lower cost, non-food energy sources and feedstocks. Rankings 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: 2014/15, #49 The Situation […]
Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Developed the ACOS (Acid Catalyzed Organosolv Saccharification) process which dissolves any biomass type in a single step and recovers/fractionates >98% of all chemical components as part of the solvent recovery process. All components are to be processed to value added products Tell us […]
