The biggest news out of Novozymes this month is its new yeast platform for starch-based ethanol, while also introducing the first product, Innova Drive. A completely new yeast strain, the product can reduce fermentation time by up to two hours compared to current yeasts. 1G aside, Novozymes is heavily focused on the roll-out of 2G […]
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, Special Advisor to EnergyEne, CEO Corinne Young LLC, Chief Advocate re:chem, Member Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to the Digest This is the sixth in a series of articles prepared by […]
The gold bricks are flying in to Montreal at a pace even Auric Goldfinger would approve of, and the reason is Enerkem’s monster $223 million investment round. It’s Enerkem’s largest to date, and just about anyone’s largest to date, anf that makes then the “Tech with the Midas touch,” to paraphrase Shirley Bassey. Existing Enerkem […]
In Denmark, Novozymes revealed its new yeast platform for starch-based ethanol, while also introducing the first product, Innova Drive. A completely new yeast strain, the product can reduce fermentation time by up to two hours compared to current yeasts. The new yeast is also tougher, continuing to ferment in adverse conditions such as higher organic […]
In Canada, Saskatchewan-based Milligan Biofuels that has bought up to 50,000 metric tons of off-spec canola from the prairie region to produce 20 million liters of biodiesel annually has entered receivership and closed its doors because it can no longer compete with low oil prices. Calgary’s Hardie and Kelly is handling the administration of the […]
In Malaysia, the Chinese government is trying to encourage its domestic companies to invest in Malaysia’s palm oil industry because of the major opportunities to supply the Chinese transportation market with biodiesel. The country imports around 8 million metric tons of biodiesel while only producing about 300,000 tons a year as recently as 2015. China […]
In Finland, UPM is studying biofuels development opportunities by starting an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a possible biorefinery in Mussalo, Kotka, in southeastern Finland. The study of a possible Kotka Biorefinery is in the very early stages and the EIA process normally takes approximately one year. The EIA study states that the proposed second […]
In Nebraska, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality has awarded Integrated Recycling $35,495 to help it un-package 2,000 pounds per hour of outdated beverages that will be transformed by AltEn into ethanol and methane, the latter of which will be used to fuel the boilers for ethanol distillation. The project should be online in the […]
In the UK, Zebra Fuels’ door-to-door gas station is expanding its service offering around the greater London area to include biofuel and electrical vehicles charging in addition to just diesel. Likening themselves as a pit stop for your car or the Amazon of fuel, customers can order fuel by phone app and don’t have to […]
In Massachusetts, microbial species that grow in environments where carbon is mainly available as lignin are promising for finding new ways of removing lignin that protects cellulose for improved conversion of lignin to fuel precursors. One candidate species that can use lignin for growth in the absence of oxygen is Enterobacter lignolyticus SCF1, a bacterium […]
