Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. MBI is a non-profit company, committed to accelerating bio-based and sustainable technologies to commercialization, through its pioneering derisking process. In addition to derisking technologies for clients, MBI is working to commercialize 3 major bio-based technologies, the most revolutionary of these being the AFEX […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, jumped 2.39 percent to 62.61 as ethanol equities soared. For the day, Green Plains (GPRE) rocketed up 8.23 percent to $26.57, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) was up 8.83 percent to $9.74. Among other equities, Aemetis (AMTX) rebounded 6.94 percent to $3.85. Overall, advances led […]
As earnings season begins for Q4 2014, Green Plains EBITDA jumps 42%, cash in hand jumps to $453 million Green Plains In Nebraska, Green Plains announced net income for the quarter was $42.2 million compared to net income of $25.5 million for the same period in 2013. Revenues were $829.9 million for the fourth quarter […]
From Washington comes the news that a group of four Democratic and Republican lawmakers said that they will introduce once again a RFS Reform Act bill, the latest in a series of bills aimed at eliminating markets for corn starch that compete with poultry and dairy interests. The legislation is not yet available via Congress.gov, […]
Green Plains is a vertically-integrated ethanol producer based in Omaha, Nebraska. They currently have an ethanol production capacity of approximately 1.0 billion gallons per year with 12 plants located in Atkinson, Nebraska; Bluffton, Indiana; Central City, Nebraska; Fairmont, Minnesota; Fergus Falls, Minnesota; Lakota, Iowa; Obion, Tennessee; Ord, Nebraska; Riga, Michigan; Shenandoah, Iowa; Superior, Iowa; and Wood River, Nebraska. […]
Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Colbiocel is a Colombian company that is developing a cellulosic ethanol project with a production capacity of 28 million gallons using bagasse as feedstock Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. technology, supply chain […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, retreated 1.69 percent to 61.15 as all sectors fell back on energy price drops. For the day, Abengoa (ABGB) fell 4.45 percent to $15.24, while ADM shed 5.62 percent to $46.02. Among other equities, Aemetis (AMTX) dumped 7.22 percent to $3.60. Overall, declines led […]
From New York, we hear that Anellotech, and Johnson Matthey Process Technologies have announced an alliance to codevelop advanced catalyst systems for Anellotech’s Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) Process for production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene for the chemical industry. The two partners will collaborate in three major areas: On the technical development of an […]
Sidney K. Pierce, an emeritus professor at University of South Florida and at University of Maryland, College Park, remarks, “There is no way on earth that genes from an alga should work inside an animal cell.” But then they found Elysia chlorotica, an emerald green sea slug whose chromosomes have some genes that come from […]
In Missouri, scientists have re-discovered a fast-growing bacterial strain first described in 1955. Although most cyanobacteria grow slowly, in 1955 two scientists at the University of Texas at Austin described a fast-growing cyanobacterial strain collected from a campus creek. Whereas most strains grew by 5 to 8 percent per hour, this strain grew by 30 […]
