Author Archive: Meghan Sapp

rss feed

Evogene scores EU Horizon grant to create climate adapted oil-seed crops

Evogene scores EU Horizon grant to create climate adapted oil-seed crops

May 9, 2023 |

In Israel, the Ag-Seed Division of Evogene Ltd has been granted a prestigious EU Horizon grant of €1.2 million, to support the creation of oil-seed crops that have high carbon-dioxide assimilation and enhanced drought tolerance. The project, Crop4Clima, has an overall budget of €2.5 million and is expected to be executed over 32 months. This […]

Read More

BBGI teams with Conagen to create Asian large-scale precision fermentation JV

BBGI teams with Conagen to create Asian large-scale precision fermentation JV

May 9, 2023 |

In Thailand, BBGI is working with Conagen, a U.S. product-focused advanced biotechnology innovator and manufacturer, to establish a large-scale precision fermentation manufacturing joint venture in Asia. The partnership aims to explore innovative biosolutions made through precision fermentation for commercial distribution, with the anticipated potential to increase business opportunities and future earnings. A joint feasibility study […]

Read More

Orbex breaks ground at its Sutherland Spaceport and scores more government funding

Orbex breaks ground at its Sutherland Spaceport and scores more government funding

May 9, 2023 |

In the UK, construction has begun at Sutherland Spaceport (formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland) in Scotland, making this the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK mainland. Located on the North coast of Scotland, the spaceport will be the ‘home’ spaceport of Forres-based rocket and launch services company, Orbex, which will […]

Read More

Federal grand jury indicts former biofuel company founder for embezzling $5.9M

Federal grand jury indicts former biofuel company founder for embezzling $5.9M

May 9, 2023 |

In Washington, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned an indictment last week charging the founder and former CEO of a sustainable fuel company with embezzling at least $5.9 million from the company. According to court documents, Bryan Sherbacow, 54, of Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C., allegedly engaged in a scheme to defraud […]

Read More

Researchers to produce and evaluate eco circuit boards

Researchers to produce and evaluate eco circuit boards

May 9, 2023 |

In Switzerland, with participants from Austria, Slovenia, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland, researchers to produce and evaluate eco circuit boards made of various materials: In addition to nanofibrillated cellulose (CNF), wood wool and wood pulp are being investigated as a base; wood veneer is also being used as a base for the circuit boards. […]

Read More

RFS tells EPA to use technology-neutral approach to reducing GHG emissions with honest carbon accounting

RFS tells EPA to use technology-neutral approach to reducing GHG emissions with honest carbon accounting

May 9, 2023 |

In Washington, in testimony to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, the Renewable Fuels Association called on the agency to use honest carbon accounting and adopt a technology-neutral approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions for passenger vehicles. According to RFA, EPA’s proposed actions on vehicular emissions standards for 2027-2032 “would effectively force automakers to produce more battery […]

Read More

Chinese company to use Honeywell Ecofining technology for SAF production

Chinese company to use Honeywell Ecofining technology for SAF production

May 8, 2023 |

In China, Honeywell announced that Sichuan Jinshang Environmental Protection Technology Co. (JSRE) will use Honeywell Ecofining technology to produce nearly 300,000 tpy (approximately 6,000 bpd of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its newly planned facility in Suining, Sichuan Province, China. This project will promote the accelerated adoption of SAF, and, once completed, the facility is […]

Read More

Greasezilla to be at more than 30 sites by end-2023

Greasezilla to be at more than 30 sites by end-2023

May 8, 2023 |

In West Virginia, Downey Ridge Environmental Company’s rapid expansion of GreasezillaTM fats, oils and grease (FOG) separation and processing systems, is accelerating the recovery of brown grease feedstock for the production of transportation biofuels, including biodiesel, renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Greasezilla’s national install base is poised to become the largest brown grease […]

Read More

GT Sport cancels Euroformula Open in Pau this weekend of failure to meet biofuel requirements

GT Sport cancels Euroformula Open in Pau this weekend of failure to meet biofuel requirements

May 8, 2023 |

In France, GT Sport confirmed that the Euroformula Open will not hold the second round of its 2023 season in Pau on 13-14 May, as communicated to the Pau organizers on April 27. Technical reasons have led to this decision, as it proved not possible to adjust the current engines of the Euroformula Open cars […]

Read More

SBR’s renewable diesel unit mechanically complete and feedstocks being introduced

SBR’s renewable diesel unit mechanically complete and feedstocks being introduced

May 8, 2023 |

In New Jersey, renewable diesel production unit of the SBR project is mechanically complete, turned over to operations, and the first feedstocks are being introduced in May. The pre-treatment unit remains under construction and is expected to be complete in June. Total projected capital costs for the SBR facility and related project infrastructure are expected […]

Read More

}