Vive le ROI: has Sylvatex uncovered a gold mine in renewable fuels?
One of the purest, high-yield financial plays we have ever seen in the energy business is possibly emerging, one that could put fracking returns...
Novozymes ignites Yeast Wars with breakthrough new strain, yield gain, time cut
Novozymes moved into yeast this week with a new organism, Innova Drive.
It’s saccharomyces cerevisae — the workhouse yeast that has been powering wine fermentation...
Biodiesel stands its ground, won’t back down: new B20 vehicles, emissions cuts, highlight NBC...
The makers of the world’s favorite advanced biofuel — a/k/a the biodiesel industry — descended upon Texas to mingle, make and renew ties at...
Natural Rubber: Viable Industrial BioEconomy Crop, It’s Going to Be Big
By Katrina Cornish FAAAS Endowed Chair and Ohio Research Scholar, Bioemergent Materials, The Ohio State University; CEO, EnergyEne Inc., Member, Lee Enterprises Consulting
Corinne Young,...
10 Years After: Advanced Biofuels’ Status, Opportunities and Challenges
By Lorenz Bauer, Ph.D., Member Lee Enterprises Consulting
Special to The Digest
This is the sixth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at...
A Quiet Year for Biofuels M&A: 2017 Review and Outlook
by Bruce Comer, Ocean Park Advisors
Special to The Digest
More industry players chose to develop and build new capacity rather than buy plants
The North American...
State of the Advanced Bioeconomy 2018 – an 8-part series
This week in the Digest, we begin a Special 8-part Series: The State of the Advanced Bioeconomy: Challenges and Priorities for 2018.
As we head...
Qantas, Agrisoma, Honeywell, AltAir, WFS partner in historic first Pacific jet biofuels flight
Bit of biofuels from the bush, poured into and powering one of those Flying Kangaroos, and you have the latest news out of Australia,...
The rise, rise, rise of bio-methanol for fuels and chemical markets
We reported last week on the Silva Green Fuels JV between Sweden’s Södra and Norway’s Statkraft, using Steeper Energy technology to produce drop-in advanced...
Leaps and bounds in sustainable plastics and nylons: U Wisconsin, Genomatica, Aquafil, Anellotech,...
It's been a big week in plastics and nylons, all right — not only for those who value sustainability attributes, but for fans of...