Biogas is booming and ECOCORP is on it with its core biogas tech helping the industry grow. As a commercial stage company, they design, permit, construct, commission and operate biogas plants but what is perhaps most interesting is the dry, thermophilic two-step (hydrolysis and fermentation) anaerobic co-digestion with high organic loading and reduced retention time. […]
3D printed bioslides from adidas are set to launch soon as are a Grateful Dead themed collection of biosneakers and sandals. Absolut is trialing biobased bottle caps for more sustainable spirits and French Cognac brand Maison A de Fussigny has debuted a plant-based flax fiber bottle for its organic cognac. Cheers to that! In today’s […]
By Mark Laurenzo, Iowa Economic Development Authority Special to The Digest Iowa has a well-documented history in the ethanol business. We’re the United States’ leader in renewable fuel production with 41 ethanol refineries (capable of producing more than 4.5 billion gallons per year) and 11 biodiesel facilities (with annual production capacities of 410 million gallons). […]
Remember former Bolt Threads VP of Research Josh Kittelson, PhD? He’s now at New Culture, a company focused on animal-free dairy. And Topsoe has a big change at the senior leadership level too. A new Chief Product Officer at Tidal Vision is a result of their acquisition of ViaeX Technologies – a company that turns […]
Big names with big news today – Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, announced definitive agreements to supply fuel linked to renewable natural gas for a Walmart demonstration of Cummins’ new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. In today’s Digest, what the agreements entail, how Walmart’s heavy-duty trucks will be using RNG, […]
The U.S. Navy is up to something fishy – hagfish that is. Researchers are evaluating the use of hagfish slime – a unique goo that can swell to 10,000 times its original size – to clog the propellors of enemy ships. And in London, a materials innovation partnership developed a technique to turn the shells […]
The venture happily named Circular Fuels has announced its new home, at Teesworks on the south side of England’s River Tees. It’s a $200 million waste to rDME project — the best route to decarbonizing LPG, a leading pathway to low-carbon heavy-duty transport, and lays a foundation for green hydrogen. The venture plans to produce […]
By Paul Hodredge, Director of Industrials and Transport and Cameron Steagall, Manager of Collaborations at BSR Special to The Digest On a cool, overcast December day in Chicago, United Airlines flew a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet from O’Hare to Washington Reagan National Airport. United was leaping forward in clearing the skies: this was the […]
From Washington, the bioeconomy’s (usually) annual Rorschach test has arrived again, with the release of Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) for 2020 (retroactive), 2021 (uh, retroactive), and 2022. These are the annual Federal mandated volumes for the blending of renewable fuels in the US. More than a dozen trade associations and policymakers offered reaction to the EPA […]
We’ve talked about sustainable aviation fuel so much in regards to airplanes, but how about helicopters? Well, news came in that Airbus Helicopters in Japan and Japan’s leading helicopter operator Nakanihon Air (NNK) jointly performed the country’s first ever helicopter flight powered with sustainable aviation fuel. So this made us look at SAF and helicopters […]
