The pile-on for bionylon: ADM, Rennovia, JM accelerate the chase

Just when we’ve chided ADM for being quieter in the sector than a Sensory Deprivation Chamber, they’ve gone and been associated with two major...

Greenyug to go commercial-scale in 2017, signs key ethyl acetate offtake deal with Helm

In California, HELM AG and Greenyug signed an off-take agreement for the purchase and sale of bio-based Ethyl Acetate produced at Greenyug’s planned Ethyl...

Ground Delay: Where are the Sustainable Aviation Fuels?

When it comes to sustainable aviation fuels, the public is yelling impatiently for take-off, and the airlines are pleading impatiently for off-take. So, where are...

AY-YI YI-YA AAAY, Gevo just can’t stop dancin’

So, feel the bioeconomy backbeat and let the music flow. AY-YI YI-YA AAAY, Gevo just can’t stop dancin’. Whoops, that was Becky G's Can't Stop...

Avantium goes IPO: aims for €100 million in Amsterdam, Brussels Float

Here’s our 10-minute version of the filing, slightly re-organized to make sense to Earthlings instead of aliens from the Planet Prospectus. In the Netherlands, bioplastics...

Reverse Combustion and its prospects

Because burning fuels in an internal combustion engine produces CO2 and water as its byproducts, the idea of reverse combustion has been hanging around...

Algae and the Spirit of Aloha

If you’ve been to Hawaii, you’ve heard the greeting Aloha, and perhaps someone told you the word is used in greeting, departure, and also...

ENVIA Energy’s GTL plant is underway, produces first biofuels

In Oklahoma, the team behind the ENVIA Energy gas-to-liquids plant confirmed that the first Fischer-Tropsch product has been successfully produced at the company’s first...

Imagine, with us!: AkzoNobel issues an innovation challenge to the advanced bioceconomy

AkzoNobel is launching Imagine Chemistry, an exciting opportunity to partner with start-up firms, students, research groups and career scientists from across the world to...

Notes from the Circular Economy Front Lines: A fast company and its slow-release fertilizer

There’s a new and fascinating way to improve plant yield and farmer income, and it’s high technology in service of a very ancient idea...

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You better be-leaf it: Dawn Bio cultivates wood in a petri dish

In the Netherlands, a startup based at Wageningen University’s campus is pioneering technology to produce wood from cultured cells. Dubbed Dawn Bio, the company has...

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Prince William’s Earthshot Prize names seaweed firm Coast 4C as a finalist

In Australia, a startup sustainably cultivating seaweed has been chosen as a finalist for Prince William’s 2024 Earthshot Prize. Coast 4C works with farmers in...