As ABLC Next approaches with record crowds and plenty of companies to meet, we’re profiling key industry players over the next month in our long-standing “5 Minutes With” series. Today, Fermworx, aspiring to be the world’s leading specialty fermentation company with local production and a global presence focused on making quality products and exceeding customer […]
From New York and the stages of ClimateWeek therein arrives news that WasteFuel, which would not surprise you to learn makes fuel from waste, has developed and is offering a new technology, their Methanol Module. We’ve been hard at work over the past months highlighting the advantages of methane as a feedstock, intermediate and end […]
News arrived from Finland that Neste has begun a “strategic study” on transitioning its refinery in Porvoo, Finland to non-crude oil refining and into a globally leading renewable and circular solutions site. 7 years ago Neste got rid of Oil — at least in the company name. But here’s where the rubber meets the road, […]
News has arrived from Washington that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 projects under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity. It’s become the US Department of Action, as it turns out, the grand ol’ USDA. Big wins for industrials include: $5M for Scaling Up the […]
In New York, Topsoe and First Ammonia signed a 5GW launch company agreement for the reservation of first-of-a-kind, industrial-scale, solid oxide electrolyzer cells to produce green ammonia, a fuel for transportation, power storage and generation, and fertilizer. First Ammonia is developing the world’s first modular, commercial-scale plants to produce green ammonia from intermittent renewable energy. […]
In the EU, Dow and Mura Technology followed up on their summer multi-facility partnership to transform plastic recyclability with the specific announce of project one. Mura plans to construct a new facility at Dow’s Böhlen site in Germany. This project is targeted for a final investment decision by the end of 2023. Mura’s new […]
We’ll keep warning the industries of the bioeconomy until we get the message through so clearly that no one is left in any doubt: The grand journey, the quest for sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials, will utterly fail if the industry does not work harder to address its Achilles Heel, which is biomass itself. Not the […]
It’s been so warm and dry in France this year that the corn harvest is in rough condition. But having said that, the expansion of wind energy is bound to be exciting to fans of green hydrogen, and the technology coming out of France is exciting enough that, when the rains return, there will be […]
Biogas is an ancient thing, organisms have been making it for millenia – only in recent decades have we learned to capture and use it to generate on-site heat and power. That was the first generation of biomethane. A few years ago, 2G arrived. In 2G, we learned to purify, compress and transport biomethane and […]
We’ll keep warning the industries of the bioeconomy until we get the message through so clearly that no one is left in any doubt,. The grand journey, the quest for sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials, will utterly fail if the industry does not work harder to address its Achilles Hell, which is biomass itself. Not […]
