Nebraska is home to the invention of Kool-Aid, home to billionaire Warren Buffet, and home to the first Arbor Day, but the state’s innovations go beyond that. It’s also home to production facilities for Novartis, Zoetis, Celerion, Merck Animal Health, and Novozymes. And one organization is trying to be the champion of biotechnology and an […]
Scars are a sign you’ve been there and survived. You overcame. You learned something, maybe the hard way. And Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo, a company that produces low-carbon, renewable, high-performance fuel products, shows us just how beautiful scars can be. Check out his illuminating presentation where he shares what Gevo has learned over the […]
Dawn Technology has nothing to do with the dish soap and everything to do with the biorefinery process for industrial sugars and lignin from non-food biomass by Avantium. Mekong Technology is all about Avantium’s Catalytic, single-step process for producing plant-based (MEG) from industrial sugars. And why is it a new day with these breakthrough technologies […]
LanzaTech has produced 5.5 million gallons of ethanol since start up and has compelling project economics to back it up. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech gave this ‘Carbon Smart’ overview of how LanzaTech is recycling carbon from industrial off gas biomass and MSW syngas and turning it into valuable product, how their genome-scale model guided […]
Like many other companies in the agriculture and food ingredient markets, ADM is affected by the weather. But bad weather isn’t stopping this company as indicated in their Q2 presentation especially with health and wellness and animal nutrition up on year over year numbers. Check out their highlights from the second quarter as well as […]
Innovation is great but without implementation, the story ends there. Not so for ICM, a Kanasas-based company that took its small business roots in a farming community and an idea and turned it into 1/3 of the world’s ethanol produced every year by ICM technologies. With over 21 patents they don’t just have the innovations […]
Axens Solutions is covering the entire project development cycle and working on things like BioTfuel and Vegan which are renewable diesel and jet fuels, Futurol, a celluloscic ethanol using biomass enzymatic fermentation, Atol made from ethylene using ethanol dehydration, and other feedstocks for fuel. David Schwalje, Business Development Manager at Axens, offered this illuminating overview […]
Pacific Ethanol, a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels and high-quality alcohol products, reported a total of 130 million gallons sold and net sales of $346 million, down from $411 million during the second quarter a year ago. While industry ethanol margins decreased at the end of Q2, there are now over 1,700 […]
Amyris just presented about their latest products and proprietary process of engineering organisms (yeast) using renewably-sourced carbon from plants (sugarcane) to make sustainable, custom molecules at the Jefferies 2019 Global Industrials Conference. Get the latest on their fully integrated R&D platform, how they deliver natural products at industrial scale, how their products are delivering the […]
The fuels market and demand for jet fuels is big, but what about the marine sector? After all, over 90% of all goods are shipped via marine vessels fueled with high sulfur (3.5 wt.%) heavy residual fuel oil (HFO). Zia Haq, Siva Sivasubramanian, Mark Shmorhun, Mohan Gupta, all from the U.S. Department of Energy, gave […]
