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The Hottest Companies: Industrial Microbes Photo Votes 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Industrial Microbes Photo Votes 2014-15

September 22, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Industrial Microbes 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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The Hottest Companies: AgSolver Photo Votes 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: AgSolver Photo Votes 2014-15

September 22, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for AgSolver 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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4 Minutes With…Vonnie Estes, Managing Director, US, GranBio

4 Minutes With…Vonnie Estes, Managing Director, US, GranBio

September 22, 2014 |

If you haven’t met Vonnie, you probably haven’t been in the field long, or in the US very often. One of the industry’s best-known “connector nodes” and the person who did the most to put GranBio into the top echelon in the US market over the past year — previously known for her work with DuPont […]

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Ethanol production up, blending demand down in the US

Ethanol production up, blending demand down in the US

September 22, 2014 |

In the US, ethanol production for the week before last averaged 931,000 barrels per day, 39.10 million gallons daily, up 4000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 923,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 14.15 billion gallons. Gasoline demand for the week averaged 365.7 million gallons daily. Refiner/blender […]

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Minnoco expands with higher ethanol blends for Minnesota

Minnoco expands with higher ethanol blends for Minnesota

September 22, 2014 |

In Minnesota, Minnoco will be offering higher ethanol blends in the Twin Cities area, including E15, E30, and E85. Minocco is a brand of gasoline developed by a group of independent gasoline producers. The E15 fuel debuted last year with prices 15 cents per gallon cheaper than competing gasoline brands. Tom Buis of Growth Energy […]

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The Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy: Winning Photo Votes for the week of September 15, 2014

The Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy: Winning Photo Votes for the week of September 15, 2014

September 21, 2014 |

Here are the winning photo votes chosen for the week starting 9/15/14 in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company — in the strange and microscopic world of industrial biotechnology — to visualize its creativity, company spirit, and communicate […]

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Inside the US Navy’s new cost-competitive military biofuels program

Inside the US Navy’s new cost-competitive military biofuels program

September 21, 2014 |

$210 million towards public-private partnerships — that will result in $3.45 (or better) drop-in military biofuels that reduce foreign oil imports, create good-paying jobs, reduce carbon, and diversify the military’s energy supply. Those are the headlines out of DC. But what are the details of the program – how does it work? The Digest speaks […]

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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 9/22/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 9/22/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

September 21, 2014 |

About The Digest Dashboard. 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, […]

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4 Minutes With…Ron Cascone, Principal, Nexant

4 Minutes With…Ron Cascone, Principal, Nexant

September 21, 2014 |

If you’ve been to ABLC, you’ve likely seen a hugely-popular session where we turn the tables — instead of having CEOs present their companies and technologies, we have technical diligence experts look at companies and technologies with a critical eye — pointing out the question marks and “still to be proven” aspects as well as […]

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Biofuels Digest Index slips to 76.58 as ethanol equities head downwards

Biofuels Digest Index slips to 76.58 as ethanol equities head downwards

September 21, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, slipped 0.28 percent to 76.58 as ethanol equities continued to correct downwards. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) dropped 5.99 percent to $8.01, while Gevo (GEVO) soared 14.57 percent to $0.40. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) tumbled 8.60 percent to $0.44. Overall, declines and advances […]

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