Corbion bids to acquire TerraVia
In California, Corbion has made a $20M stalking horse stock and asset purchase bid for TerraVia .
The purchase agreement provides TerraVia with a binding...
Bounding Maine: Top 10 companies targeting Maine’s forest resource for higher-value apps
Maine is the Pine Tree state and yet in recent years the industries surrounding the noble pine have been in all kinds of distress,...
The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 25th, 2018
The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of...
Winner, winner, salmon dinner? Calysta raises $40M en route to scale
From California arrives the news that Calysta has raised $40 million in a Series D funding led by Mitsui and including amongst its participants...
Plastic Stretches Towards the New: Top 10 Trendlines in Bioplastics
The Plant Bottle has generated so much goodwill and publicity for its 30% renewable, sustainable content (and that biobased MEG) that it’s easy to...
Letter from Washington: The Grand Alliance flashes V for Victory in renewable fuels fight
It’s been a very busy week in Washington DC, the high point being a letter to seven senators sent late Thursday by EPA Administrator...
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In: Anellotech, Edeniq, Novvi
The old Christmas carol goes, “I saw three ships come sailing in,” and those perched on a widow’s walk this morning might have espied...
Fuels from thin air: drop-in liquid fuels from sky CO2, water and solar power
In Finland, we reported last week commercial vehicles operated by the City of Helsinki and bus services commissioned by HSL will fully switch to...
Tyson Foods buys into Beyond Meat
In Arkansas, Tyson Foods invested an undisclosed amount for a five percent ownership position in Beyond Meat to help the plant-based protein producer expand...
Beta Renewables in cellulosic ethanol crisis, as Grupo M&G parent files for restructuring
From Italy comes an industry shocker:
"Italian newspapers reported over the weekend that cellulosic ethanol developer Mossi & Ghisolfi shuts down this week," reported a...