Company description: Amyris is an integrated renewable chemicals and fuels company founded in 2003 and based in Emeryville, CA, with additional operations in Chicago, IL and Campinas, Brazil. Amyris has over 400 employees, with three-quarters of its employees located in the United States. Amyris subsidiaries include Amyris Brasil Ltda., a wholly-owned Brazilian company through which […]
Company description: Genomatica is a widely-recognized technology leader for the chemical industry. It develops comprehensive manufacturing processes that enable its licensee partners to produce the world’s most widely-used chemicals a ‘better way,’ from alternative feedstocks, with better economics and greater sustainability than petroleum-based processes. Genomatica has the distinction of driving the first genuine commercialization of a […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 2.38 percent to 74.80 as advanced biofuels climbed. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) jumped 5.36 percent to $1.18, while Amyris (AMRS) surged 7.24 percent to $3.85. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) advanced 6.38 percent to $1.50. Overall, advances led declines 2 to 1 […]
New separation technologies offer a route to massive cuts in the cost of biofuel production, by changing the way we extract useful sugars. Consider, as you may some time this morning, the cup of coffee. A/k/a the Hot Java, the joe, the brew, the cuppa, the fix, the morning thunder, the jitter juice, or the […]
Company description: Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s renewable products can replace or enhance oils derived from the world’s three existing sources – petroleum, plants and animal fats. Initially, Solazyme is focused on commercializing its […]
Company description: Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company, based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide and employed 22 149 employees on December 31, 2011. In the financial year 2011, Clariant produced a turnover of CHF 7.4 billion. Clariant is divided into eleven business units: Additives; Catalysis & Energy; […]
28 waste feedstocks – a comprehensive overview of what is sustainable, affordable, reliable, available – is this the most comprehensive survey ever? In the UK, a comprehensive 28-feedstock assessment, commissioned by the UK Department for Transport from E4Tech, presents evidence on feedstock supply potentials and prices, the maturity and costs of different biofuel production options, […]
A city in British Columbia, Canada will soon be using garbage trucks powered by garbage. The province of British Columbia, situated on Canada’s west coast, is a world leader in the bioenergy sector and one of the province’s latest bioenergy projects is underway in the city of Surrey. By 2015, Surrey will be home to […]
Company description: Harris Group Inc. (Harris Group) is a multidiscipline engineering consulting firm with offices across the United States. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we have over 200 highly experienced engineers, designers, project managers, and technical support personnel servicing ten industrial sectors including biofuels and bio-based chemicals. Business Model: Fee for service […]
Company Description Gevo has two proprietary technologies that combine to make it possible to retrofit existing ethanol plants to produce isobutanol, a four carbon alcohol which serves as a hydrocarbon platform molecule. We have developed a robust industrial scale yeast biocatalyst to produce isobutanol without typical byproducts operating at parameters equivalent to commercial ethanol producers. […]
