In New York, Novozymes announced its investment in CleanStar Mozambique at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. CleanStar Mozambique, a company founded by Novozymes and CleanStar Ventures, will work with smallholder farmers to implement sustainable farming practices, create a food and ethanol cooking fuel production facility, and lay the groundwork for economically and ecologically sustainable […]
In Massachusetts, Mascoma Corporation filed its S-1 registration statement relating to a proposed $100 million initial public offering. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined, and the company has not indicated yet which exchange it will apply to for a listing of its […]
In Florida, Joule Unlimited and Terrabon opened up big first day leads in light voting on day one of the Final Four balloting in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament. “It’s been one of the lightest Mondays of the tournament,” commented Digest editor Jim Lane, “and ballots are generally building up in volume during the week. […]
Voting in the third round (Sweet 16) of the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament begins Monday, August 29 and will close on Friday, September 2 at 5pm ET. Here are the match-ups, with links to previews of the contests and data on each company’s technologies and progress towards commercialization. Solazyme vs Joule Unlimited Novozymes vs Terrabon […]
Elite Eight (round four) voting finished on Friday in the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament. Once again, favorites did not fare well, with three falling – including a #1 regional seed (Gevo) and a regional #2 seed (LS9) . What went right and wrong? 1. Nearer to commercialization. As with last week, the companies that were […]
Background: This is a Final Four (semi-final), match-up between International Regional Champion Novozymes and Central Regional Champion Terrabon in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to […]
Background: This is a Final Four (semi-final), match-up between Western Regional Champion Solazyne and Eastern Regional Champion Joule Unlimited, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances […]
Readers, I’d like to invite you to submit a photo to the Digest for our upcoming photo essay “A Day in the Life of Biofuels”. It has to relate to biofuels in some way – as a consumer, researcher, policymaker, producer, journalist, feedstock grower, industry supplier, student, enthusiast, carmaker, mechanic, and so on. Could be […]
In Florida, OriginOil, Joule Unlimited, Terrabon and Novozymes consolidated their early leads from Elite Eight quarterfinal voting in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament. #1 Western seed Solazyme, #1 Central seed Gevo and #2 International seed LS9 are now trailing in their match-ups with two days to go in Elite Eight balloting. “It’s crunch time for […]
by Brent Erickson, Executive VP, BIO As any number of economic analysts have noted, continued policy uncertainty is holding businesses back from the hiring and investment needed to get the economy moving again. The advanced biofuel industry has been trying to deploy pioneering technology in the midst of the recent economic downturn. Additional uncertainty over […]
