Here is the first of a series of slide selections from this week’s Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference – ABLC Next 2014, underway in San Francisco. Sapphire Energy’s new multi-market product approach Joule’s breakthrough photosynthetic efficiency Cellana – multi-products for algae, just like petroleum Liquid Light – pining up markets for CO2 Biosynthetic Technologies – Industrial […]
At ABLC Next: PwC weighs in with an informative industry survey on the advanced bioeconomy. This week at ABLC Next, PwC’s Brian Carey, at the outset of the first commercial session of the conference, presented results from an incisive industry survey which looked at confidence, growth, and diversification. “The concerns?” Carey asked. “We saw government […]
To open ABLC Next, what we like to call the “heads of the 7 families” — or in this case, the heads of seven key trade associations for the advanced bioeconomy, joined us on stage as we looked at the impact of the recent US midterm elections — and the policy outlook in 2015 and […]
Renewable chemicals developer Genomatica took the #1 spot in the 2014-15 “30 Hottest Companies in Biobased Chemicals and Materials” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read advanced bioeconomy daily. It is Genomatica’s fourth consecutive year at the top of the rankings. Solazyme (#2), Amyris (#3), BASF (#4), LanzaTech (#5), DSM (#6), Elevance […]
Liquid Light took the #1 spot in the 2014-15 “40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read advanced bioeconomy daily. It was the first year for the Hot 40, which recognizes companies with less than 50 full-time employees and $20 million or less in annual […]
LanzaTech took the #1 spot in the 2014-15“50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings, published today in The Digest, the world’s most widely-read bioeconomy daily. It was first year at the top for LanzaTech, which came in 2nd in last years’ poll. GranBio (#2), Algenol (#3), Novozymes (#4), Solazyme (#5), DuPont (#6), POET-DSM (#7), Beta Renewables […]
This morning, ABLC Next 2014 opens in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel — where 70 years ago the world’s leaders gathered to form the United Nations — and we’ll be looking at “What’s next” in technology, finance, policy This week in the Digest: All this week. The Strategics speak. We’ll have coverage, beginning today […]
Leading a series this week, “The Strategics Speak:, in which we’ll look at what a number of major strategic investors see in the landscape relating to industrial, energy and agricultural investment, we visited with Dan Oh, CEO of Renewable Energy Group, which has long been the US’s leading independent biodiesel producer but in recent years […]
Revenue and customer numbers are up at Solazyme, 60% YOY growth from Q3 2013 to Q3 2014. But a slowdown in the rollout at Moema capacity leads to a spectacular 58% one-day drop in the stock price. What happened? If you’ve been following the Biofuels Digest Index, you’ll have noticed in recent months that Solazyme has […]
In Washington, what has been described within the industry as “The growing movement to call out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its ethanol emissions testing procedures” picked up support today as a new study from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) called the agency’s approach flawed. In the paper “Issues with T50 and T90 […]
