News arrives from California that global consumer products giant Kao has joined a venture to scale and commercialize plant-based alternatives to palm kernel oil, alongside Genomatica and Unilever. The company’s exact investment was undisclosed — the initial announce was the $120M Unilever and Genomatica announce —we understand that Kao’s invest is additive to that amount. […]
As the authors of an impressive 126-page study on a Sustainable Aviation Fuels Roadmap that leads the Digest coverage today note in their opening remarks: “The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of […]
The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of domestic sustainable aviation fuel production that achieve a minimum of a 50% reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) compared to conventional fuel […]
From the Netherlands comes news that the Sorting for Circularity Europe project has released its report after 16 months in their conclave. The white smoke has emerged from the chimney, habemus papam, and the news is that 74% of low-value, post-consumer textiles is readily available for fibre-to-fibre recycling in six European countries. That’s a total […]
From MetGen in Finland comes not one story but three, a hat-trick. First, a commercial license for biorefineries with Futurity in New Zealand; second, a partnership with Ivy Farms to develop an industrial process for bioactive molecules they use in their cultivated meat technology; third, a partnership with Technip Energies for the industrialization of MetGen’s […]
If the bioeconomy were a galaxy and the heavy-duty fuels were the constellation Big Heavy, two of the brightest and longest-lived stars would be Fulcrum BioEnergy and Ensyn Fuels. Of late, attention has been steering towards newcomers such as Alder Fuels, T2C Energy, and a host of new projects getting off the ground — DG […]
The latest news from Germany concerns a technology that just can’t get enough attention, that’s the Siemens Mobility’s Mireo Plus H passenger trains. Ballard Power Systems picked up an order for 14 x 200 kW fuel cell modules from Siemens to power a fleet of seven Mireo Plus H passenger trains. Delivery of the 14 […]
For more than a decade we have been covering the emergence of e-Fuels — renewable fuels made from (usually waste) CO2 and green hydrogen, the latter conventionally obtained by splitting water using spare, intermittent renewable power. It’s been a story of a fuel defeated by policy. Simply put, most early-day carbon thresholds were so low, […]
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 […]
