Mascoma’s “slow rabbit, the first commercial app from its CBP technology, gets snapped up by Lallemand. In Massachusetts, Mascoma Corporation announced that it has completed the sale of its yeast business to Lallemand Inc., a privately owned company that researches, develops, produces and markets yeasts, bacteria, and related products. As part of the transaction, Lallemand […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Cool Planet produces high-octane, aromatic fuel blendstocks for gasoline, jet, and diesel, as well as CoolTerra enhanced biochar for use in agriculture and water applications. The technology has the capability of producing carbon negative fuel from the company’s distributed plant model that places […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, sank 1.56 percent to 69.38 as advanced biofuels sagged. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) lost 5.17 percent to $7.34, while Ceres (CERE) plunged 11.72 percent to $0.30. Among other equities, Renewable Energy Group (REGI) dumped 6.46 percent to $9.84. Overall, declines led advances 8 […]
Mary Gibson Rosenthal, who served as the Algae Biomass Organization’s first executive director and led its initial battles for algae parity on Capitol Hill, died of cancer on Saturday in Minneapolis, MN. She was 56. Her death was announced last night by the ABO, which she joined in June 2009 and led until January 2014, when […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, edged down 0.59 percent to 70.49 as advanced biofuels retreated. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) gained 0.91 percent to $7.74, while Gevo (GEVO) lost 7.80 percent to $0.33. Among other equities, Abengoa (ABGB) was up 3.92 percent to $22.03. Overall, declines led advances 5 […]
A bolt-on technology for ethanol plants, costing less than $2 per installed gallon, producing a cellulosic biofuel additive that oxygenates diesel fuel at competitive prices? It’s early stage, but what’s not to like? The Digest looks at xF Technologies. Before we look today at an exciting new market for biomass and ethanol, let’s go back […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Taurus Energy is a company working to develop the best posibble yeast for fermentation of c5 sugars it is a research company and owns a number of patents around the subject we are working mainly in the USA, Europe, Brazil and India Tell us about […]
In Illinois, LanzaTech and a research team from the IOC-DBT Center for Advanced Bio-Energy Research (an entity co-funded by India’s Department of Biotechnology and Indian Oil Corporation Limited) announced the development of a new process to recycle CO2 emissions into omega-3 rich fatty acids. Recycling carbon dioxide (CO2) gases as the sole carbon source for […]
Biofuels 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; […]
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.” “You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.” “Nobody asked your opinion,” said Alice.” Let me get this straight. […]
