As many technologies pivot or delay, one train keeps chugging on its route to biosuccinic acid, and markets like BDO, resins and polyols. What is it about the business model that keeps on working? What can every integrated biorefinery learn from its approach? In Minneapolis, BioAmber just announced a contract to supply a minimum of […]
As Walpurgisnacht gives way to May Day — ideas to promote acceleration of industrial biotechnology arrive to grace the annual celebration of the spring growing season. Today is May Day (or, International Workers’ Day, if you prefer) — and the spring festivals celebrating the return of the warm growing season will be underway in many […]
Yesterday, the pro-Renewable Fuel Standard, pro-American jobs groups Americans United for Change and VoteVets.org held a press call “to reveal IRS documents linking Saudi Aramco to the American Petroleum Institute”, and announced a “Sunday show TV blitz to help educate the public and decision makers in Washington about who is really behind the anti-RFS campaign […]
Blender pumps, E15, drop-in fuels, aviation, amending the RFS, outright repeal — seems like everyone has a fix for the fight over the Renewable Fuel Standard. But why not convert abundant ethanol into higher-blending butanol? Technologies to do just that are under development. Of all the items on the “critical” list for the renewable fuels […]
How a small, development-stage industrial biotech company, making chemicals you never heard of, landed $48M in new investment and a $100M valuation from investors like BP. And how they got so hot that figures like President Obama and the Malaysian Prime Minister attend an investment signing ceremony. In Malaysia, Verdezyne has negotiated key terms for […]
Today: NREL, NexSteppe, Oberon, Cellana, Heliae and industry consultants Paul Bryan and David Dodds with some mindbending insights into the biobased fuels & chemicals markets. In our final wrap-up from 2014 ABLC, the annual bioeconomy leadership conference in Washington DC., we selected slides presented by CEOs from NexSteppe, Oberon, Cellana, Heliae, plus NREL’s Rich Bolin […]
Today: Iogen, Butamax, POET, OPX Bio, Green Biologics, Mascoma and more – their molecules, their markets, how they offer transformation beyond petroleum. Experts from Iogen, Butamax, POET, OPX Bio, Green Biologics. Mascoma, the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, the Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials, the UN’s Renewable Reserves Accounting project, and Eastman Business Park were […]
Experts from Coca-Cola, Avantium, Virent, American Process, DSM, ICM, Imperium, Liquid Light, Maverick Synfuels, Beta Renewables, Algenol, Cool Plant, Clariant — as well as top management at the USDA and US Department of Energy were among the highlight presenters on the second day at ABLC, the annual bioeconomy leadership conference in Washington, DC. ABLC this […]
Experts from Solena Fuels, British Airways, the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI), the US Navy, the Federal Aviation Administration, Amyris, Byogy, Gevo, BioProcess Algae, Virent, Mercurius, and ARA were among the highlight presenters at the 5th annual Global Aviation Biofuels Summit, an integrated part of ABLC, the annual bioeconomy conference now underway in Washington, […]
