Category: Top Stories

Biobased Barbies, pineapple waste paper, 3D printed fruit, Super Bowl’s fiber food packaging, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 25th

December 24, 2019 | Jim Lane

It’s Christmas morning for many and biobased Barbies are on the horizon with Mattel’s promise to use only recycled, recyclable, or renewable plastics in all products by 2030, starting with the Fisher-Price Rock-a-Stack made from sugarcane plastics. And soon you can write letters to Santa on paper made from waste pineapple leaves while munching on […]

Yay or Nay for EPA? RFS Volumes out for 2020, Biodiesel for 2021 – What’s the reaction from industry?

December 21, 2019 | admin

What’s the reaction from industry? Coal for Christmas? Should Santa bring coal for EPA’s stocking this year? Do the biofuels and agriculture industries think the EPA just put coal in their stocking? Is it thumbs up or thumbs down from biofuel industry advocates on last week’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency renewable fuel volumes? What about […]

The Bioeconomy Christmas: Uncle Sam puts $12B+ for biomass-based diesel, action on biointermediates, cellulosics, and small refinery waivers into the stocking this year

December 19, 2019 | Jim Lane

This week, Congressional leaders announced a five-year extension of the biomass-based diesel tax credit as part of a year-end tax extenders package. As Christmas gifts go, the importance and value of this to the biomass-based diesel universe cannot be overemphasized. No phase down Unexpectedly, the five year extension of the blenders credits comes without a […]

LEGO bioplastic bricks, castor bean coats, world’s first hydrogen powered ferry and carrier ship, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 20th

December 19, 2019 | Jim Lane

For some, it’s holiday shopping season and now LEGO’s first bioplastic block set is an option! The kit—appropriately designed to make a treehouse—uses sugarcane-based polyethylene. Another great gift Top 10 Innovation from this week is French outerwear company Moncler’s new carbon-neutral jacket made from castor beans. Yes, a coat from castor – the down jacket […]

Confessions of a Biorefiner: Green Plains’ journey into the land of high-value proteins, and the who, what and why of that

December 18, 2019 | Jim Lane

This week news came out of a partnership between Novozymes and Green Plains to use biological technology to extract more value from corn protein, at what used to be known as corn ethanol plants, but with this news we might finally and forever begin to think of them as something else. This provided us an […]

Gevo’s Delta sustainable aviation fuels deal — Holy SAF, Batman, it really worth a billion bucks?

December 17, 2019 | Jim Lane

Delta enters offtake agreement with Gevo for 10 million gallons per year of sustainable aviation fuel, creates long-term carbon solution. What does it mean? In Colorado and Georgia, Delta signed a take-or-pay deal to purchase 10 million gallons per year of advanced renewable biofuels from Gevo. Sustainable aviation fuels provide significant environmental benefits because the […]

We Three Kings of the Bioeconomy Are: Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & what appears to be the entire investing universe announce massive deals to anchor a big bioeconomy Christmas

December 16, 2019 | Jim Lane

Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & a bunch of investors new and returning — three transformative market shifts this week of epic proportion. Grabbing the dollar headlines has to be Inscripta’s eye-watering $125 million Series D cap raise, which will accelerate applications expansion and commercialization of the company’s revolutionary Onyx Digital […]

Vanguard Renewables and Dominion Energy partner up on 1st nationwide network of dairy waste-to-energy projects

December 15, 2019 | admin

1st nationwide network of dairy waste-to-energy projects coming soon! Vanguard Renewables and Dominion Energy partner up to convert methane into RNG Ughhh, smell that smell? Maybe you won’t anymore! Cows, pigs, humans, we all do it. We fart, we poop, we emit putrid waste products, yes, we are one with nature in many ways. The […]

Water-based tech converts biomass into food ingredients – Renmatix and Cargill sign Joint Development Agreement

December 15, 2019 | admin

We love cookies as much as the Cookie Monster, but make them from sustainable ingredients and a water-based technology and that’s even more exhilarating. Functional food ingredients from unused plant materials is just what Renmatix and Cargill are aiming to explore with their new joint development agreement, but what makes this breaking news even more […]

Competitive Edge: Infra XTL Technology Ltd.

December 12, 2019 | Jim Lane

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? Infra started 10 years ago with the goal to build a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst that will produce no waxes. This […]

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