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,...
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...
Fermentation Frontiers: Top 10 Trendlines in industrial biotech fermentation
The most visible advanced industrial fermentation target for a number of years has been cellulosic ethanol, but the targets are diversifying and cellulosics themselves...
The doctrine of energy maneuver: Hurricane Harvey gives a lesson on diversifying fuel supply
As the battered but game residents of Houston drain and repair their battered city, US gasoline prices spike on fears of a refinery crunch....
Hot Spots: The Top 10 Advanced Bioeconomy Places to Watch in California
California is for many the “home of innovation” but almost everyone thinks of Silicon Valley in this respect, or perhaps the Bay Area as...
Hot Spots: 10 Advanced Bioeconomy Places to Watch in Iowa
Eddyville, Fort Dodge, Clinton, Newton, Cedar Rapids. Communities like these have been mainstays of the Iowa bioeconomy for years, even decades — home to...
Hot Spots: The Top 10 Bioeconomy Places to Watch in Canada
When it comes to project action, Go North, young man. Canada's hot and the technology's cool.
The colder weather might be just around the corner...
US slaps Argentine, Indonesian biodiesel producers with huge anti-dumping penalties
In Washington, the US Commerce Department issued a preliminary countervailing duty determination from the Commerce Department regarding subsidized biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia....
Vertibirds are GO: DOE OKs Vertimass drop-in biofuels technology, clears path to demo scale
In California, Vertimass gained its intermediate technology validation with the US DOE's Bioenergy Technology Office, which verified performance against negotiated milestones, provided progress on scale-up, and...
Advances in carbon fiber and graphene tech: The higher purpose in higher value carbon...
Today we’d like to highlight advances in the production and use of higher-value forms of carbon as examples of a society slowly moving away...