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Carbon Dioxide, an important by-product of fermentation: Food industry applications and usage

Carbon Dioxide, an important by-product of fermentation: Food industry applications and usage

January 19, 2015 |

By Sam A. Rushing – Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to the Digest This article on CO2 usage in the food industry is one in a series for the applications which are predominant and important in the carbon dioxide industry. This subject is particularly interesting to the US Corn Belt region, which contains some of the […]

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BP’s exit from cellulosic ethanol: the assets, the auction, the process, the timing, the skinny

BP’s exit from cellulosic ethanol: the assets, the auction, the process, the timing, the skinny

January 18, 2015 |

The complete details on BP’s exit and the considerable physical and intellectual assets available for acquisition, in part or in whole. As BP continues to reel from its oil leak capital calls and the impact of crashing oil prices, they dropped a bombshell in recent weeks: “The current challenging external business environment is resulting in […]

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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 1/19/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 1/19/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

January 18, 2015 |

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 […]

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GranBio: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

GranBio: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

January 18, 2015 |

Controlled by Gran Investimentos S.A., a holding company of the Gradin family, GranBio is a 100% Brazilian industrial biotech company that was born of the vision to bring about a green revolution capable of transforming the real potential of Brazilian biomass into energy abundance. Created in June of 2011, the company was the first to […]

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4 Minutes with….Franck Mode, Business Advisor, CADev

4 Minutes with….Franck Mode, Business Advisor, CADev

January 18, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Official economic development agency of the Champagne-Ardenne Region, we offer complimentary services to expanding international companies. These include identification of strategic partners, feedstock and financing, as well as assistance in attracting public support for project around one of the leading advanced biorefinery in […]

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Biofuels Digest Index rebounds to 58.93 as ethanol equities advance

Biofuels Digest Index rebounds to 58.93 as ethanol equities advance

January 18, 2015 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, rebounded 1.55 percent to 58.93 as ethanol equities advanced. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) fell 5.32 percent to $1.78, while Eni (E) jumped 3.88 percent to $33.52. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) recovered 7.12 percent to $8.12. Overall, advances led declines 4 to […]

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4 minutes with… Kathleen M. Roberts, Executive Director, Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group

4 minutes with… Kathleen M. Roberts, Executive Director, Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group

January 15, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. BRAG provides a platform for organizations engaged in biobased chemistries to identify regulatory barriers for their unique products and to work collectively to address them. BRAG tackles regulatory hindrances related to commercialization of biobased products and works to improve public awareness of the […]

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Er, about that stunning 14X improvement in biofuels enzyme performance…

Er, about that stunning 14X improvement in biofuels enzyme performance…

January 15, 2015 |

The press has been buzzing, the microbe’s real, and the results have been near-to-stunning. All true. But, with the news circulating about regarding the remarkable abilities of an enzyme found inside a thermophile, there’s less than meets the eye.  There’s been a tremendous buzz in the neo-scientific press in recent days over reports of an […]

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Beta Renewables: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Beta Renewables: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

January 15, 2015 |

Beta Renewables — a subsidiary of Chemtex, and Grupo M&G — has developed and deployed a low-cost cellulosic biofuels technology, known as PROESA. Chemtex employs approximately 1000 staff located in key centers throughout the world – Tortona and Rivalta in Italy, Wilmington, NC and Sharon Center, OH in the USA, Shanghai and Beijing in China and […]

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Biofuels Digest Index falls to 58.03 as enzyme equities tumble

Biofuels Digest Index falls to 58.03 as enzyme equities tumble

January 15, 2015 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, fell 1.58 percent to 58.03 as enzyme equities tumbled. For the day, BioAmber (BIOA) lost 6.27 percent to $7.48, while DSM (DSM) slumped 8.58 percent to $43.08. Among other equities, Metabolix (MBLX) surged 14.26 percent to $0.48. Overall, declines led advances 2 to 1 […]

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