There’s a new way of understanding advanced industrial biotech – how land, capital and labor are organized, where it is going, and why. Are we discovering a new way, or something so ancient it feels new all over again? It has been an exciting week in industrial biotech. Elevance filed for its IPO, as it […]
What this country really needs is a good, five-cent sugar. Got one? Riches await. One of the most interesting developments in recent months has been the emergence, out of stealth, of a number of companies focused on providing low-cost cellulosic sugars. As Phycal CEO Kevin Berner said, “if you can make low-cost sugar, you can […]
Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round),International Regional match-up between #1 seed Amyris and #5 seed Novozymes, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to […]
Background: This is a second round, International Regional match-up between #1 seed ZeaChem and #9 seed DSM, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the Sweet […]
Here are the Complete match-ups in the 2011 Transformative Technologies Tournament. Links take you to a summary of the match-up, including company profiles. East Regional #1 Coskata vs #16 Range Fuels #2 KiOR vs #15 Butamax #3 Mascoma vs #14 PetroAlgae #4 Qteros vs #13 Inbicon #5 Algenol vs #12 Monsanto #6 Dupont vs #11 […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the individual subscriber, international selector and Digest Online Community poll data, which are combined to form the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials. Amyris ranked #1 in the international Selector poll, Genomatica ranked #1 in the Digest online Community poll, and Solazyme ranked #1 in the subscriber poll. […]
In Florida, Renewable chemicals developer Genomatica took the #1 spot in the 2011-12 “30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials” rankings. This is the first annual poll focused on renewable chemicals. Solazyme (#2), Amyris (#3), Gevo (#4), LS9 (#5), Dupont (#6), Codexis (#7), Genencor (#8), Novozymes (#9) and ZeaChem (#10) round out the top […]
Mendel CEO Neal Gutterson talks about miscanthus, and the role of the power sector as the driver of a global supply chain for biomass. Some background on Mendel Biotechnology Last year, we described them in the Digest as one of the “16 overlooked gems in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy voting” for 2010-11. We […]
LS9, Virent, Genomatica, HCL CleanTech among the winners, as DOE fosters replacement of “entire barrel of oil” in latest funding round In Washington, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and […]
Biobutanol from wood biomass; 470,000 gallon facility to switch to biobutanol in April 2012 In Michigan, Cobalt Technologies and American Process announced an agreement to build the world’s first industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery to produce biobutanol. Rick Wilson, CEO of Cobalt, and Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process, will join 120 other C-level advanced biorefining executives […]
