The industry newsdiaper is so SAFturated with jet fuel stories, you might have forgotten that renewable chemicals exist, and that some of them do super-absorbent things. And it’s good news that super-duper absorbents are in the news, for those of you around the world who have friends currently soiling themselves as their political leaders of […]
BioMADE is securing America’s future through biomanufacturing innovation, education, and collaboration It is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a Public-private partnership, with over 280 members, spanning large industry, innovative start-ups, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and more BioMADE’s Jack Starr presented these slides at ABLC 2024.
There are so many International Organizations and Partnerships, what do they do, who are they, how do they work together? There are Country-led initiatives on Technology, Policy, Sustainability, Finance. There’s UN, FAO, OECD, G20 activities plus multi-stakeholder groups wuch as IEA Bioenergy, To help sort it out, DOE’s Jim Spaeth presented these slides at ABLC 2024.
SixRing, a chemical technology company, uses patented modified acids to produce high purity cellulose, biogenic acetic acid, and low viscosity biocrude from lignocellulosic biomass at ambient pressure and temperature. Not a typical start-up, SixRing’s product development plan is to “shine lights down these high value pathways so that our licensees can generate the most value […]
In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced by global hydrogen producers in shifting towards low carbon hydrogen — new technologies for green hydrogen, new carbon capture opportunities to make blue hydrogen, and much more, including how policy and finance are coming together to support the build-out. The Digest’s Jim Lane presented these slides as […]
By Jonathan Gressel, LEC Partners (formerly Lee Enterprises Consulting), Weizmann Institute of Science and HiCap Formulations (Israel) Ltd. Special to The Digest Modern pesticides provide a healthy, safe food supply. The twentieth-century discovery of small organic molecule pesticides revolutionized agriculture and food production. Pesticides such as herbicides replaced manual and mechanical cultivation, while fungicides and […]
BDO Zone ratings are powerful market signals of regional readiness for bio-manufacturing. Ratings undergo rigorous due diligence using a standardized framework of over 100 risk indicators. Jordan Solomon, CEO of Ecostrat, presented these slides for ABLC 2024.
How can the commercial aviation industry, fuels industry, and public policymakers work together best to accelerate commercial SAF development and use? This was the theme of this SAF policy session at ABLC 2024 organized with Boeing and major industry organizations.
Lanzajet says we are at an inflection point for the sustainable aviation industry. Why? How? What’s LanzaJet’s role in it all? How are they driving innovation and accelerating deployment of SAF? What’s the status of their plants and projects? LJ CEO Jimmy Samartzis gave this illuminating update on the company’s progress and prospects at ABLC […]
The mission of California Ethanol & Power, LLC (“CE+P”) is to produce sustainable renewable low-carbon energy in California from the right renewable resource – sugarcane. CE&P’s experienced team is completing the development of and intends to project finance, construct using proven technologies, own and operate a facility in California’s Imperial Valley. CEO Dave Rubenstein presented […]
