Category: Thought Leadership

When the Spotlight Moves On, Does Carbon Still Matter? Looking at big news from Pyran, Carbon Clean, HutanBio

When the Spotlight Moves On, Does Carbon Still Matter? Looking at big news from Pyran, Carbon Clean, HutanBio

May 22, 2025 |

We’ve rarely had a week in the bioeconomy where so much worthy advancement on carbon-smart technology won so less applause.  Pyran announced that an independent cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment for its 1,5-pentanediol, confirms that Pyran’s bio-based PDO reduces greenhouse gas emissions by up to 99% compared to petroleum-derived 1,6-hexanediol. Pyran’s been lauded for using intermediates […]

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The Enerkem Question: When a company evolves, how do its low-carbon platforms remain in motion?

The Enerkem Question: When a company evolves, how do its low-carbon platforms remain in motion?

May 22, 2025 |

Enerkem has it all: patented technology, public sector backing, global partners, and a flagship project in Quebec. It also has C$350 million in debt and as we reported last week, the company has filed for creditor protection as it reorganizes. We can only speculate about Enerkem post-reorganization, but informed voices suggest it may be controlled […]

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Here’s to the Crazy Ones: looking at Jobs, Buffett and the Bioeconomy through a new lens

Here’s to the Crazy Ones: looking at Jobs, Buffett and the Bioeconomy through a new lens

May 22, 2025 |

I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don’t know where it goes But it’s home to me, and I walk alone. —Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” So begins Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” but it could just as easily describe the emotional terrain of today’s clean energy […]

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Is This Built to Last? A Systems-Based Toolkit for Evaluating iMicrobes’ Biomanufacturing Strategy

Is This Built to Last? A Systems-Based Toolkit for Evaluating iMicrobes’ Biomanufacturing Strategy

May 20, 2025 |

Industrial Microbes CEO Noah Helman’s column yesterday on biomanufacturing was packed with real-world insight. It’s highly recommended reading, and paired well with Liberation Labs CEO Mark Warner’s column on Monday. First, let’s recap the iMicrobes column. Thankfully, it doesn’t promise the moon. Instead, it delivers something more valuable: clarity. Noah Helman’s take on iMicrobes highlights […]

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How to design a biomanufacturing process for success

How to design a biomanufacturing process for success

May 19, 2025 |

By Noah Helman, CEO, Industrial Microbes Imagine two parents with a baby stroller standing in the supermarket aisle, faced with a decision: two identical boxes of diapers – same brand, same performance, same price – except one is in green packaging. Looking closer, they realize one kind is made from petroleum while those in the […]

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If the Microbe isn’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy

If the Microbe isn’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy

May 18, 2025 |

By Mark Warner, CEO, Liberation Labs Special to The Digest Why successful biomanufacturing starts with the organism As companies rush to build the next wave of biomanufacturing capacity, they seek input from many stakeholders: elected officials who champion federal funding for their districts, agricultural conglomerates offering cost-advantaged feedstocks, and CEOs hoping the site is within […]

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The Bioenergy Two-Step: Learning from the Petroleum Playbook

The Bioenergy Two-Step: Learning from the Petroleum Playbook

May 16, 2025 |

By Jim Spaeth Special to The Digest Before there were supermajors, there were scattered oil wells. Tiny, stubborn things—dug into dusty corners of Texas, each with barely enough output to fill a rail car. But early refiners didn’t try to process that oil in the field. They built a network. They moved intermediates—crude oil—across distance […]

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The High Art of Performance: Taking strain engineering to the next level

The High Art of Performance: Taking strain engineering to the next level

May 11, 2025 |

The battle lines are drawn and the ethanol industry’s equivalent of the Met Gala is about to begin. When June rolls around, the titans of the enzyme and yeast industries roll out their latest offerings.  The strain engineers unleash their latest offerings on the runways, and we all sit back and marvel at the audacity, […]

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Who’s Tackling the Challenges in biobased chemicals and biomaterials? Looking at EUBCE 2025

Who’s Tackling the Challenges in biobased chemicals and biomaterials? Looking at EUBCE 2025

May 8, 2025 |

By Jim Spaeth Special to The Digest Renewable chemicals and biomaterials are no longer niche—they are the future of carbon. Europe stands at the threshold of massive opportunity, from decarbonized manufacturing to circular materials innovation. But crossing that threshold? That’s another story. The technology exists. The markets are interested. The policies are warming. And yet, […]

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5 Bioeconomy Persisters: why are these technologies and companies advancing strong in times of uncertainty?

5 Bioeconomy Persisters: why are these technologies and companies advancing strong in times of uncertainty?

May 6, 2025 |

Keep on keeping on. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Uncertainty is another way of spelling opportunity. These are so easy to say and write, so hard to do. At a time of great economic and policy uncertainty — the world may not be going to blazes, as some of our friends […]

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