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GO Resources to commercialize high-tech, super high oleic safflower oil

GO Resources to commercialize high-tech, super high oleic safflower oil

July 15, 2015 |

More oleic acid than any commercial crop. Renewable alternative to petroleum-based raw materials with multiple applications in the biolubricants, biochemical and bioplastics industries.  In Australia, GO Resources has entered into an exclusive worldwide licence with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to commercialize its technology to produce super high oleic safflower oil for the high-value industrial oil market. […]

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Corbion: The Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Corbion: The Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

July 15, 2015 |

Corbion has over 80 years of experience in fermentation and downstream processing, is the global market leader in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives and lactides, and a leading company in functional blends containing enzymes, emulsifiers, minerals and vitamins. The company delivers high performance biobased products made from renewable resources and applied in global markets such […]

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ABLC NEXT returns to San Francisco: The complete 2015 inside guide

ABLC NEXT returns to San Francisco: The complete 2015 inside guide

July 14, 2015 |

A total immersion in the advanced bioeconomy’s cutting edge, hottest companies, winning strategies and brightest thinkers. Forget then, forget now, NEXT is back in focus. ABLC NEXT that is — November 2-5, 2015 – the 12th Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference. Conference sessions Nov 3-4. Special aviation fuel “breakthroughs” in focus. 8 National Labs in a […]

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See It Now: Newlight’s carbon-negative plastic, made from greenhouse gas and ordinary air. Really.

See It Now: Newlight’s carbon-negative plastic, made from greenhouse gas and ordinary air. Really.

July 13, 2015 |

In California, Newlight Technologies has signed a 20-year take-or-pay off-take agreement with Vinmar International for 1 billion pounds of AirCarbon PHA — the first cost-competitive, carbon-negative plastic that will be available at scale. Made, by the way, from greenhouse gas and thin air. What’s not to like? Critical to the deal? Newlight’s technology, which aims to […]

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One billion pounds of carbon-negative plastic, made from greenhouse gas and pure air

One billion pounds of carbon-negative plastic, made from greenhouse gas and pure air

July 13, 2015 |

Vinmar signs historic offtake agreement with Newlight Technologies for 1B lbs of AirCarbon plastic. In California, Newlight Technologies has signed a 20-year take-or-pay off-take agreement with Vinmar International for 1 billion pounds of AirCarbon PHA. Critical to the deal? Newlight’s catalyst aims to transform the economics of PHA-based plastics, solving low yields and high cost issues […]

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Steel’s Big Dog jumps into low carbon fuels: ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, Primetals Technologies to construct $96M biofuel production facility

Steel’s Big Dog jumps into low carbon fuels: ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, Primetals Technologies to construct $96M biofuel production facility

July 13, 2015 |

First plant will produce 14 million gallons per year by 2018; first production train online in 2017. More plants to come? Up to 150 mgy potential in Europe, ArcelorMittal says; culmination of work since 2011. In Belgium, ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel and mining company, with LanzaTech and Primetals Technologies, announced a letter of intent to […]

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One man’s junk, another man’s treasure? Looking at carbon monoxide and LanzaTech

One man’s junk, another man’s treasure? Looking at carbon monoxide and LanzaTech

July 12, 2015 |

What’s LanzaTech all about? How does it work and why? Here are answers for your questions. Why don’t steel mills generate power for the grid — why make fuels instead of steam? “The fact that many of these industrial facilities could be making electricity now, but are not, tells the story,” LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren […]

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What’s up with Algae now? 

What’s up with Algae now? 

July 9, 2015 |

Six years after 2009’s “summer of algae”, we look at who’s doing what now, as the industry diversifies heavily into nutraceuticals in search of sustaining product revenue. 31 Algae players, what do they make now, and how are they making out? Algae, algae, algae —  biofuels made from and by the littleist creatures in the […]

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DOE invests $18M in 6 projects aimed at sub-$5 per gallon algae biofuels by 2019

DOE invests $18M in 6 projects aimed at sub-$5 per gallon algae biofuels by 2019

July 9, 2015 |

In Washington, the US Energy Department announced six projects that will receive up to $18 million in funding to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. This funding supports the development of a bioeconomy that can help create green jobs, spur innovation, improve the […]

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Advanced Bioeconomy ventures raise $1.328 billion in past 12 months, up 5.2%

Advanced Bioeconomy ventures raise $1.328 billion in past 12 months, up 5.2%

July 8, 2015 |

45 deals, 37 companies; deal size jumps 7 percent and Q2 2015 is 15% up over 2014 and 138 percent up over Q1. Here’s the complete skinny on who got what. In Florida, The Digest reports that 37 advanced bioeconomy ventures raised $1.328 billion in new capital in Q3 2014 through Q2 2015 for company […]

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