Archive for 2018

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)

February 13, 2018 |

Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Chatelaine (Geneva) | Switzerland The Situation The RSB offers trusted, credible tools and solutions for sustainability and biomaterials certification that mitigate business risk, fuels the bioeconomy and contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals that enables the protection of ecosystems and the promotion of food security. Top past Milestones Rebranding […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Biorenewable Deployment Consortium

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Biorenewable Deployment Consortium

February 13, 2018 |

Biorenewable Deployment Consortium, Middleton, Wisconsin The Situation Connecting Emerging Technology with Forest Industry Partners to Accelerate Deployment and Optimize Value BDC is a Catalyst to the Future Top past Milestones BDC has 1-Connected Emerging Technology with Forest Industry Partners to 2-Accelerated Deployment and 3-Optimized Value “BDC worked closely with us (Licella), as a growing Australian […]

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4 Minutes with….Charlotte Mace, Executive Director of Biobased Maine

4 Minutes with….Charlotte Mace, Executive Director of Biobased Maine

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Biobased Maine is active in Maine’s efforts to diversify its forest-based economy through biobased manufacturing. We know that Maine’s abundance of second-generation feedstock is an attractive asset to many investors. Our strong history of pulp and paper manufacturing continues, with permitted mills available […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to EnerSysNet Canada

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to EnerSysNet Canada

February 13, 2018 |

EnerSysNet Canada Inc., Ontario, Canada The Situation EnerSysNet Canada Inc.’s mission is to develop modular systems that enable the forest residuals to hydrocarbon economy. Oxygen-free, liquid hydrocarbons would be produced from sustainably managed timber reserves by a distributed network of small, self-contained biorefineries that literally take the factory to the forest. Top past Milestones ESN […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)

February 13, 2018 |

Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Ghent, Belgium The Situation Open innovation pilot facility for bio-process development, scale-up and custom manufacturing with a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment for fermentation, purification, ATEX green chemistry, biomass pretreatment and biocatalysis, up to 10 ton scale. 70 employees, 8 years operational experience, 24/7, customers worldwide. We served >200 companies […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lee Enterprises

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lee Enterprises

February 13, 2018 |

Lee Enterprises Consulting Inc’s headquarters is near Little Rock, Arkansas. Our consultants are located around the world. Our team has frequent interactions and participate in team and individual calls on an on-going basis. The Situation LEC is a network of bioeconomy experts with experience from lab and plant floor to boardroom that puts together interdisciplinary […]

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The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lignin Enterprises

The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide to Lignin Enterprises

February 13, 2018 |

Lignin Enterprises, LLC, Charleston, SC USA The Situation We have three business elements: 1) providing engineering support to pulp and paper companies wanting to use our SLRP lignin recovery technology; 2) marketing and selling lignin regardless of how it’s made, currently focusing on West Fraser’s Lignin A made in Hinton AB Canada, and 3) developing […]

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Better, faster, cheaper bio-oil: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to fractionation and catalytic upgrading of bio-oil

Better, faster, cheaper bio-oil: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to fractionation and catalytic upgrading of bio-oil

February 13, 2018 |

In the world of bio-oil production, current technologies have low carbon retention in fuel range and high hydrogen consumption. The DOE is supporting a project led by Daniel Resasco at the University of Oklahoma to develop a more effective fractionation, combined with catalytic upgrading for carbon-carbon bond formation. The ultimate objective? Maximizing carbon efficiency at […]

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Meridian Waste Solutions teams with Genarex on bioadditives for plastics market

Meridian Waste Solutions teams with Genarex on bioadditives for plastics market

February 12, 2018 |

In Georgia, Meridian Waste Solutions, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Genarex FD LLC to develop a broader range of bioadditives for the plastics market. Genarex extracts otherwise low-value materials from corn ethanol byproducts and uses these materials as bioadditives in plastics. Attis Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridian Waste Solutions Inc., recovers lignin from the byproduct stream […]

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New York Harbor ethanol premium drops as logistical nightmare thaws

New York Harbor ethanol premium drops as logistical nightmare thaws

February 12, 2018 |

In New York state, as the deep freeze in the Midwest begins to thaw, the Mississippi River becomes passable again to barge traffic, and rail lines in Pennsylvania open back up, ethanol is able to make its way towards New York Harbor. As a result, prices are falling, bringing down the NY Harbor premium over […]

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