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Biofuels Digest Index edges up to 75.47 despite advanced biofuels fall

Biofuels Digest Index edges up to 75.47 despite advanced biofuels fall

September 24, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, edged up 0.33 percent to 75.47 despite an advanced biofuels fall. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) dumped 17.60 percent to $0.35, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 6.15 percent to $.12. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) rallied 3.84 percent to $4.06 . Overall, advances led declines […]

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GranBio starts cellulosic ethanol production at 21 million gallon plant in Alagoas, Brazil

GranBio starts cellulosic ethanol production at 21 million gallon plant in Alagoas, Brazil

September 24, 2014 |

World’s largest-known cellulosic ethanol project to date comes online in Brazil in record time. In Brazil, GranBio has initiated production at the first commercial-scale plant for second-generation ethanol in the Southern Hemisphere.  The Bioflex 1, unit built in São Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas, has an initial production capacity of 82 million liters of ethanol per […]

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KLM picks Amyris-Total renewable jet fuel as climate takes center stage in NY and at the UN

KLM picks Amyris-Total renewable jet fuel as climate takes center stage in NY and at the UN

September 24, 2014 |

Renewable jet fuel makes another remove forward — as a new study concludes that delay on implementing RFS2 could be the equivalent of building 5.5 new coal-fired power plants in terms of CO2. In New York, KLM tipped that it intends to fly on Amyris-Total renewable jet fuel, as soon as it receives favorable advice […]

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4 Minutes With…Steve Hartig, General Manager Licensing, POET DSM Advanced Biofuels

4 Minutes With…Steve Hartig, General Manager Licensing, POET DSM Advanced Biofuels

September 24, 2014 |

Recently, if you had attended at the opening of the POET-DSM project in Emmetsburg, you would have seen Steve Hartig at the back of the pack on the plant tours — one of the go-to guys, answering all the detailed questions, deflecting the sensitive ones, getting the vision across not only for this demonstration facility, […]

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Have energy crops found the inflection point? NexSteppe Raises $22M in Series C Financing

Have energy crops found the inflection point? NexSteppe Raises $22M in Series C Financing

September 23, 2014 |

New Investors Total Energy Ventures and ELFH Holding join existing investors Braemar Energy Ventures, CYM Ventures and DuPont Ventures In California, NexSteppe, announced that it has raised $22M in its third round of funding. New investors Total Energy Ventures and ELFH Holding GmbH, a vehicle of the Berninghausen family in Germany, a serial founder and […]

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4 Minutes With…Mark Emalfarb, CEO, Dyadic International

4 Minutes With…Mark Emalfarb, CEO, Dyadic International

September 23, 2014 |

For a guy deep in the gene business, ironic that he started off with jeans. Back in the 70s, Dyadic began as a pioneer and leader in providing ingredients used in the stone-washing of blue jeans. Along the way the company developed its pretty awesome C1 fungal microorganism platform that has been licensed by Codexis and Abengoa amongst […]

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Biofuels Digest Index slides to 75.22 as advanced biofuels and enzymes fall

Biofuels Digest Index slides to 75.22 as advanced biofuels and enzymes fall

September 23, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, fell 0.96 percent to 75.22 as advanced biofuels and enzymes fell. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) dumped 16.67 percent to $0.13, while Metabolix (MBLX) lost 4.20 percent to $0.91 Among other equities, Aemetis (AMTX) jumped 5.04 percent to $8.59 . Overall, declines led advances […]

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Maverick, methane: attacking the big wave

Maverick, methane: attacking the big wave

September 23, 2014 |

Maverick Synfuels Introduces Maverick Oasis — attacking the big methane wave via affordable, modular, smaller-scale gas-to-liquid methanol plants If you’ve been raised on video of traditional surfing, with its hot dog cutbacks, aerials, dramatic reentries, and tube mechanics — think again when it comes to the big wave. The art of surfing the big bombs […]

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Biofuels Digest Index falls to 75.95 as advanced biofuels tumbled in midday trading

Biofuels Digest Index falls to 75.95 as advanced biofuels tumbled in midday trading

September 22, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, fell 0.82 percent to 75.95 as advanced biofuels tumbled by the close of midday trading. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) plunged 17.89 percent to $0.16, while Dyadic (DYAI) shed 3.81 percent to $1.60.   Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) lost 4.60 percent to $2.25. […]

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The Hottest Companies: Yulex Photo Votes 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Yulex Photo Votes 2014-15

September 22, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Yulex in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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