In Missouri, Ocean Park Advisors has been retained by Abengoa Bioenergy to find a strategic partner or to complete a sale of Abengoa cellulosic ethanol plant, electricity cogeneration plant and related assets in Hugoton, Kansas. Additionally, there is an opportunity for interested parties to acquire the cellulosic technology and other intellectual property assets that are owned […]
In New York, Toyota Tsusho was identified this week as a multinational strategic equity investor in Anellotech and corporate partner in the renewable aromatic chemicals supply chain. Toyota Tsusho is a member of the Toyota Group and is one of the major value chain partners (along with Suntory) in the Anellotech alliance. Now, the corporate […]
In Washington, as the DOE’s Bioenergy 2016 conference opened its third day, the Energy Department announced up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. It’s one of those moments in the algae narrative that remind you of that scene […]
A few years ago, Michael Pollan wrote a best-seller, In Defense of Food, that leveled an attack on high fructose sweeteners from which the corn industry has not entirely recovered. If you’ve seen an industry effort to relabel “high fructose corn syrup” as something else — anything else — it is because of a consumer […]
In Washington, Ensyn announced ground-breaking on a new 10.5 million gallon biocrude project in Port-Cartier Quebec. The facility, which will be 50% owned by Ensyn and will receive financing support from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. The project was announced live on-stage at Bioenergy 2016 by Ensyn’s new CEO, Jeffrey Jacobs, who described the project as the “largest-ever deployment […]
In Washington, the US Department of Energy released its 2016 Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, and said that 1.2 billion tons of biomass would be available at $60 or less per ton by 2040, and 1 billion tons would be available by 2030. The Big Change You’ll see much has changed […]
A Digest reader writes: I’m looking to summarize the changes over the last 2-3 years in the biofuels market. Are you aware of any articles or summaries on this topic? It’s a good question without a ready resource to point to. So, here’s our summary of the Top 10 Trends in Biofuels.
The front line for the biobased materials industry — long-rumored to be the halls of Washington of Brussels, or formulation laboratories around the world — may well be the short stretch of Planet Earth between your car and your house. According to a recent survey undertaken at UC-Berkeley’s Haas Business School, that’s overwhelmingly the point in time where […]
The boom Remember how natural gas was the no-brainer of all time. Gas-to-Liquids was the rage, and a gold rush of companies popped up such as Siluria Technologies, Calysta, and Mango Materials. Fuels, chems, materials and more. The world had discovered new technologies for making a chemical building block out of methane, instead of a runaway […]
In Florida, The Digest announced the initial agenda for ABLC NEXT (the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on NextGen Technologies) on November 2-4, 2016 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. The theme of the conference is “Jump into the Future” and the speakers will cover a dizzying array of technologies for advanced nutrition, advanced fuels, […]
