Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. AT PRESENT WE ARE TRYING TO DEVELOP PROGRAMMS RELATED TO NEW TECHNOLOGY TO PRODUCE ELECTRICAL POWER AND BIOFUELS, USING CELLULOSE FEEDSTOCK TO REDUCE PRODUCTION COST Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. WE HAVE […]
It’s been a year of deployment and globalization. Here are the most important items to know. Back in 1927, 100,000 people flooded Le Bourget Airport in Paris to greet Charles Lindbergh as he completed the first solo, non-stop, transatlantic crossing by plane. Now, it’s done by dozens of pilots every day, who have no one […]
Headquartered in Woodridge, Ill., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. is a high-growth specialty chemicals company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils. Using a proprietary technology called olefin metathesis at our world-scale, 180,000 MT biorefinery in Gresik, Indonesia, the company creates high-performance products for use in personal care products, detergents and cleaners, engineered polymers, lubricants […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, edged up 0.14 percent to 63.95 as advanced biofuels recovered. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) settled back 5.96 percent to $0.24, while Ceres (CERE) soared 21.57 percent to $0.31. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) jumped 17.19 percent to $0.38. Overall, declines led advances 4 […]
In Florida, The Digest announced that it’s newest series, The New Voices, is set to begin filming March 10th. The first season’s cast has been finalized and includes: Paul Woods, CEO, Algenol, Rebecca Boudreaux, president, Oberon Fuels; Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis; and Claire Curry, analyst, Bloomberg New Energy Finance. 12 episodes are expected to be […]
Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Lotavha’s main activities are Biomass and Solar products. On Biomass our focus Is on Bio coal using Torrefaction to produce the Bio coal and also focussing on Biodiesel production but will be using UCO to produce Bidiesel we still waiting for the license […]
By Brent Erickson, executive vice-president, the Biotechnology Industry Organization; head, Industrial & Environmental Section The World Resources Institute (WRI) recently issued a new working paper, authored by Tim Searchinger and Ralph Heimlich, resurrecting a previously discredited attack on the carbon neutrality of biomass feedstocks. Ironically the working paper makes plain the fallacies behind this attack […]
We now can grow algae, dewater it, harvest it, and process it on an industrial scale into dozens of useful everyday fuels, chemicals, food ingredients and materials. But can we keep it alive? What have we learned about keeping algae safe from predators, competitors, parasites and disease? Poor algae. It’s been programmed by Nature, likes some sports teams […]
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company, ranked by sales. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. BASF had sales of €72.1 billion in 2012 and more than 110,000 employees as of the end of the year. In addition to being the leading chemical company, BASF […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, slipped 0.23 percent to 63.86 as ethanol equities dipped. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) settled back 10.75 percent to $0.25, while Ceres (CERE) rallied 9.25 percent to $0.26. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) surrendered 4.19 percent to $9.38. Overall, advances and declines were […]
