In Texas, KiOR announced that as part of its refocus on research and development, it has accepted a bid for substantially all of its assets from certain affiliates of Vinod Khosla that have been providing and will continue to provide senior secured financing to the Company. The Company has also filed for relief under Chapter […]
To open ABLC Next, what we like to call the “heads of the 7 families” — or in this case, the heads of seven key trade associations for the advanced bioeconomy, joined us on stage as we looked at the impact of the recent US midterm elections — and the policy outlook in 2015 and […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Aventine is a $1 billion corn processing company using three different technologies of both corn wet milling and corn dry milling to produce over 320 million gallons of ethanol, yeast, Dried distillers grain, corn gluten feed, corn gluten germ, corn oil, and captured […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, was flat at 68.24 despite an advanced biofuels swoon. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) fell 66.04 percent following announce of a Chapter 11 reorganization, while Sacom (SAM.MI) tumbled 8.74 percent to $2.82. Among other equities, BioAmber (BIOA) added 4.56 percent to $9.40 in its […]
Renewable chemicals developer Genomatica took the #1 spot in the 2014-15 “30 Hottest Companies in Biobased Chemicals and Materials” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read advanced bioeconomy daily. It is Genomatica’s fourth consecutive year at the top of the rankings. Solazyme (#2), Amyris (#3), BASF (#4), LanzaTech (#5), DSM (#6), Elevance […]
Liquid Light took the #1 spot in the 2014-15 “40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read advanced bioeconomy daily. It was the first year for the Hot 40, which recognizes companies with less than 50 full-time employees and $20 million or less in annual […]
LanzaTech took the #1 spot in the 2014-15“50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read bioeconomy daily. It was first year at the top for LanzaTech, which came in 2nd in last years’ poll. GranBio (#2), Algenol (#3), Novozymes (#4), Solazyme (#5), DuPont (#6), POET-DSM (#7), Beta Renewables […]
Special to the Digest Cathay Industrial Biotech. has recently introduced Terryl a new biobased polyamide. Many recent biobased chemicals projects have unfortunately encountered challenges competing with existing petrochemical routes from lower cost oil and gas. Commercialization of Terryl, a cost-competitive fiber with excellent textile performance and a significantly sizeable market, may bring back some investor […]
This morning, ABLC Next 2014 opens in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel — where 70 years ago the world’s leaders gathered to form the United Nations — and we’ll be looking at “What’s next” in technology, finance, policy This week in the Digest: All this week. The Strategics speak. We’ll have coverage, beginning today […]
Leading a series this week, “The Strategics Speak:, in which we’ll look at what a number of major strategic investors see in the landscape relating to industrial, energy and agricultural investment, we visited with Dan Oh, CEO of Renewable Energy Group, which has long been the US’s leading independent biodiesel producer but in recent years […]
