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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Renewable diesel has been off to quite a start this year. Just one week in February brought several big news stories in the renewable diesel world and that doesn’t even include all the renewable diesel excitement that came throughout March and so far in April. So business is booming? What is the overall demand and […]
