Category: Top Stories

Trillium Renewable Chemicals’ biobased acrylonitrile, algae-based tennis racket, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 29th

April 28, 2021 | admin

The weather is warming up in the Northern hemisphere of the world and that means many are exercising outside more. Check out this week’s Top 8 Innovations with a new algae-based tennis racket called the Naked series from tennis giant Wilson, classic skater sneaker brand Vans’ exploration of biobased alternatives, Picup’s biobased cups embedded with […]

They got the beets! Avantium, Cosun partner on 1st commercial plant to produce plant-based glycols

April 27, 2021 | admin

They got the beets, They got the beets, They got the beets, Yeah, they got the beets! From the Netherlands comes news that Avantium and Cosun Beet Company have joined forces to construct and operate the first commercial plant for the production of plant-based glycols, using Avantium’s Ray Technology. This converts sugars, like those in […]

Zy Spy an IPO: Of Zymergen and its monster public company debut, and the risks investors love

April 26, 2021 | admin

In California, Zymergen raised $500 million last week in its IPO and the stock closed Monday night at $43.00, up 39 percent over itsWednesday trading debut. The company sold an unexpectedly robust $16.1 million shares at $31, the top end of its expected range. In short, every sign from the market is bullish. For many […]

ABLC Digital – Open Access Agenda and Access Links

April 26, 2021 | Jim Lane

Please click here to download your ABLC Digital Open Access Agenda and Access Links. These will give you access to every ABLC Digital session that is open to the general public: in all, 14 hours of presentations and forums on the Circular Economy, Re-engineering Nature, Policy, Bio-LPG, Bio-Design and Manufacturing, SAF, Finance and Investment, the […]

Washington state passes low-carbon Clean Fuel Standard — establishing a ‘Clean Fuel Coast’ from San Diego to the Klondike gateway

April 25, 2021 | Jim Lane

In Washington state, HB 1091. the Clean Fuel Standard has been passed by the legislature and now heads to Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for signature; it is a significant win for the Governor’s renewables agenda and for the clean fuels movement. From San Diego to the gateway to the Klondike, a clean curtain has descended […]

Biden sets 50 percent carbon reduction target by 2050 for US

April 22, 2021 | Jim Lane

In Washington, US President Joe Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas pollution in 2030 – building on progress to-date and by positioning American workers and industry to tackle the climate crisis. To develop the goal, the Administration analyzed […]

Competitive Edge: City of Muscatine Organics Recycling Center & Biogas Conversion

April 22, 2021 | Jim Lane

The City of Muscatine in Iowa is leading by example. The city had municipal anaerobic digesters having capacity but not creating enough biogas for a conversion project, so they added food waste to increase biogas production. There are no other municipal operations of this kind in the midwest and only a handful of them nationally […]

Earth Day Innovations, pollution-fighting soap, potato Matchbox cars, mushroom Adidas, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 22nd

April 21, 2021 | admin

In celebration of Earth Day today, let’s look at what can be done to help stop climate change and bring about a better bioeconomy. This week brings some innovations that give us hope like a new probiotic soap in Peru developed for washing clothes in rivers and streams that actually cleans up pollution in the […]

The cannabinoid revolution is coming – and fermentation is the catalyst

April 20, 2021 | Jim Lane

By Roy Lipski, Co-founder & CEO of Creo Special to The Digest It’s clear that science and technology are spurring some of the biggest changes happening across industry today. And the innovation-driven revolution happening in the emerging cannabinoids sector could have far reaching effects. Cannabinoids themselves, while still underexplored, are powerful and diverse substances. But […]

The “Coming Apocalypse:” Will Industrial Biotech Flourish or Flounder?

April 19, 2021 | Jim Lane

By Christopher J. Guske, Ph.D. and Mark Warner, PE Special to The Digest There are storm clouds on the horizon and those of us actively entrenched in scale-up and manufacturing for Industrial Biotech see the coming apocalypse…and it will likely not be pretty. We make this assertion knowing we are in a superlative-saturated society, where […]

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