If you’ve not heard, NuGenTec is looking for Distillers to help supply Ethanol for Hand Sanitizers in California! We have two automated bottling lines waiting for ethanol to produce 8oz and 16oz gel type hand sanitizers, they write. You can learn more here. And as we reported this morning, Aemetis is one of those companies […]
“I’m Possible” is even in Impossible Foods name and right now when so many things seem impossible, they are proof that even in a global pandemic, good things can still happen. Having just secured $500 million dollars in fresh funding, despite the global turmoil triggered by the coronavirus, they are showing anything is possible indeed. […]
During the week of March 16-20, 2020, The Digest surveyed its readers on how they were impacted by the Coronavirus health & economic crisis, and how they were responding. The bioeconomy’s pioneers are an optimistic bunch, and generally are far more optimistic than pessimistic about the next 12 months. That’s changed. Now, 70 percent are pessimists about 2020-21, relative […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Vertimass seeks to commercialize novel catalytic technology for low cost conversion of ethanol into hydrocarbon fuels to overcome obstacles that […]
In New York, crude oil prices plummeted to $22.78 (West Texas Intermediate) and $28.12 (Brent Crude), the lowest prices seen since 2002 for WTI, as world commodity, debt equity markets reeled from the expected economic impact of coronavirus safety measures. Natural gas prices closed at $1.68, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 6.30 percent […]
Earlier this week, we focused in on technologies around messenger RNA, or mRNA, as key players in the search for a coronavirus vaccine. More news on that front. In Massachusetts, Moderna disclosed that the first participant has been dosed in the Phase 1 study of the Company’s mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1273) against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). […]
This news in from Cristal Union in France: “In the current context of an unprecedented health crisis, with an increasingly rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus, the Cristal Union Group has decided to stop the production of bioethanol at the Arcis distillery in Aube to redirect its production towards ethyl alcohol, labeled BIOCIDAL and PharmEthyl […]
First and foremost, we want to communicate that ABLC 2020 has been postponed until July 8-10, after the Mayor of Washington DC issued a health & safety advisory that we felt obliged to follow, although the advisory warned against the holding of events with 1,000 delegates or more, and ABLC audience is not quite that […]
Empty toilet paper shelf images are streaming from seemingly everywhere in the U.S. right now, but apparently 4 billion people in the world don’t even use toilet paper, and the first commercially packaged TP wasn’t even developed until 1857 making it a relatively modern product from a historical perspective. Don’t fret though – if you […]
