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Greener alternative to PET, olive pit bioplastic, Dupont and NIPI new insulation, biobased Mardi Gras beads and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of February 15th

February 14, 2019 | Jim Lane

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of February 15th. In today’s Digest, new greener alternative to PET, olive pit bioplastic, Dupont and NIPI new insulation, biobased Mardi Gras beads — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. […]

Beyond the Cow: ICYMI, BYND IPO PDQ, and Perfect Day AKA Muufri JDA w/ ADM, FYI

November 19, 2018 | Jim Lane

It’s Thanksgiving week in the United States but we are feasting alternatively on acronyms here in Digestville. I.E., e.g., ICYMI, BYND IPO PDQ, and FYI Perfect Day AKA Muufri JDA w/ ADM. As they said at Bletchley Park, let’s get out the Enigma machine and decode. In New York and California this week, the nutrition […]

Tucumcari Bio-Energy seeks to revamp mothballed ethanol plant into methane

October 3, 2018 | Meghan Sapp

In New Mexico, Tucumcari Bio-Energy is looking to convert its former ethanol plant in the town of Tucumcari to methane production following a successful feasibility study done with Sandia Labs. The project would use the ethanol plant’s six 55,000-gallon fermentation tanks to produce methane gas following an 18-month conversion. The company to have financing and […]

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of May 10th, 2018

May 10, 2018 | Jim Lane

The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of significant product and service advances. For now, we’re going to be tracking these on a weekly basis to keep pace with the changes. Here are the top innovations for the week […]

Johnson Renewables and Fage USA legal battle kicks up a notch

December 22, 2017 | Meghan Sapp

In New York state, the legal macerations between Johnson Renewables and Fage USA continue as the former filed a $13 million countersuit against the latter following the latter’s original suit this summer following the biofuels company’s failure to establish a co-located ethanol production plant at Fage’s yoghurt plant by October 31, 2016. The facility would […]

US and German researchers produce biofuel from Greek yogurt waste

December 14, 2017 | Meghan Sapp

In New York state, consumers across the world enjoy Greek yogurt for its taste, texture, and protein-packed punch. Reaching that perfect formula, however, generates large volumes of food waste in the form of liquid whey. Now researchers in the United States and Germany have found a way to use bacteria to turn the leftover sugars […]

Yoghurt maker suing Johnstown Renewables for $20 million for breach of contract

August 21, 2017 | Meghan Sapp

In New York state, yoghurt maker Fage is suing Johnstown Renewables for more than $20 million in damages because the company didn’t lift the acidic whey from the production facility as agreed to in 2015. Johnstown Renewables is perhaps 75% complete with the construction of its $12.4 million whey-based ethanol plant but the recent death […]

Notes from the Circular Economy Front Lines: A fast company and its slow-release fertilizer

February 1, 2017 | Jim Lane

There’s a new and fascinating way to improve plant yield and farmer income, and it’s high technology in service of a very ancient idea — in this case, “slow and steady wins the race” — applied in this case to controlled-release fertilizer. The company is called Anuvia Plant Nutrients and it has built a small […]

Irish ethanol plant seen back online in November following major fire

September 27, 2016 | Meghan Sapp

In Ireland, Carbery’s cheese whey-based ethanol plant in West Cork is expected to come back online in November following a fire three weeks that forced the plant to shut and will require up to €2 million in investments to get going again. A fire erupted on the roof when, according to investigations so far, ethanol […]

Z Energy getting ready to commission 20 million liter tallow biodiesel plant

December 17, 2015 | Meghan Sapp

In New Zealand, Z Energy’s NZ$26 million tallow biodiesel plant is ready to begin commissioning early in the new year, at first producing 20 million liters annually but scalable to 40 million liters. Already the company is retailing B5 blends at its gas stations around the country, and the biodiesel from the new facility will […]