Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. TechNavi, LLC provides Strategic Advisory services to Japanese manufacturers to interface with US and European high-tech companies. Services range from establishing partnerships with companies that can help complete product development roadmaps to conducting Technology Transfer and Licensing activities. Tell us about your role […]
It’s the world’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility utilizing (waste) sugarcane bagasse as a feedstock. And the first of what Raizen says will be a network of seven full commercial-scale plants. What does it look like, how does it work? The Digest takes a look. In Brazil, Iogen and Raízen announced last month that they […]
The IEA Bioenergy Task 39 Group released its end of year newsletter, which included a comprehensive country profile for biofuels activity in The Netherlands, authored by John Neeft, Elke van Thuijl and Oliver May . The overview includes images and descriptions of the TNO, ECN, Algae Park and Bioprocess Pilot Facility (BPF) pilot plants, Examples […]
Small business owners either imagine or have actually experienced rushing headlong for an open door marked “federal funds” only to have it slammed in their face for one reason or another. This is especially true of certain kinds of small businesses, and that landscape is about to change. The current round of DOE funding opportunities […]
Feedstock costs and challenges come under the microscope as the DOE reports new data on algae-based feedstocks and terrestrial crops too. Can algae-based biofuels reach full commercial scale by 2030? The Digest investigates. Twice this year, the US DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office has issued a revision of its ongoing Multi-Year Program Plan, once this summer […]
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 […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. The partnership has been founded in 2001 by 11 founders.Main areas of activity:waste minimization programs for industrial enterprises planning and implementation,MSW flows,incl. landfills, analytical description and management programs, pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction of waste and not usable biomass for CHP production. Tell […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 0.81 percent to 63.72 as enzymes jumped. For the day, Dyadic (DYAI) soared 45.18 percent to $1.36, while OriginOil (OOOIL) rocketed up 48.51 percent to $0.15. Among other equities, Novozymes (NZMB) advanced 4.79 percent to $45.36. Overall, advances led declines 2 to 1 […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. BioFuelNet is a not-for-profit company whose objective is to network all elements (academic, industry, government) of the advanced biofuels community in Canada in order to accelerate development of a sustainable advanced biofuels industry. We are funded by the Canadian Networks of Centres of […]
Over the past weeks, we’ve asked you in a pair of surveys to help us identify positive steps and strategies to focus on for making industry progress in 2015. You disdained “messaging”, “policy reform”, “focusing on key, motivate customer segments” and “R&D reform”. Instead, you pointed to “bolt-ons”, “policy stability”, “financing”, “supply chain” and “focusing on winners” as […]
