This week news came out of a partnership between Novozymes and Green Plains to use biological technology to extract more value from corn protein, at what used to be known as corn ethanol plants, but with this news we might finally and forever begin to think of them as something else. This provided us an […]
Hydrogenics is a unit of Cummins Inc. active in designing, manufacturing, building and installing industrial and commercial Hydrogen generation, Hydrogen fuel cells and MW-scale energy storage solutions. Based in Mississauga, Canada with manufacturing facilities located in Germany, Belgium and United States, the company offers PEM and alkaline Hydrogen generators for Industrial processes and Fueling stations, Hydrogen fuel […]
By Jeff Passmore, Founder and Chair of Scaling Up Special to The Digest Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the industrial bioeconomy, and it’s a strategy that can bring Ottawa […]
Culture Bioscience is trying to accelerate fermentation R&D to help companies get products to market faster and has built an automated bioreactor facility operated as a cloud service for biotechnology companies. Will Patrick, Co-founder and CEO of Culture had this illuminating presentation to share on their cloud bioreactor facility, how they are improving their tools […]
Clariant’s sunliquid technology integrates cellulosic sugar/ethanol production made from agricultural residues, integrated enzyme production, feedstock flexibility, and more. Paolo Corvo, Head of Sales & Marketing, Business Line Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant offered the latest and greatest updates on their sunliquid technology, the 7 year running plant in Germany, their new flagship plant progress en […]
In California, Pacific Ethanol, Inc. reported it has reached agreements in principle for long-term amendments with its lenders and has secured short-term extensions to allow time for the company, its senior secured lenders and Pacific Ethanol Pekin LLC’s term lenders to prepare documentation implementing the agreements. Neil Koehler, Pacific Ethanol’s president and CEO, stated, “We […]
In Colorado, Delta’s work to create a sustainable future continues with a long-term offtake agreement under which Delta will purchase 10 million gallons per year of advanced renewable biofuels from Gevo. Sustainable aviation fuels provide significant environmental benefits because the lifecycle carbon footprint can be up to 75 percent less than conventional jet fuel. Delta’s […]
In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports that the as the Food Corporation of India is holding almost twice the minimum stock levels for wheat and rice required, the government is exploring the possible release of grains as feedstock for biofuel, especially to make room for new crop wheat in April. Corn and millets are […]
In China, Bloomberg reports that the country plans to increase agricultural purchases from the US by as much as $50 billion per year, the capacity for which is doubted by some analysts, which includes dropping tariffs on US-origin ethanol to boost those imports. US ethanol exports reached as high as 200 million gallons annually in […]
In South Africa, the Cabinet approved the Biofuels Regulatory Framework, which will give effect to the implementation of the Biofuel Industrial Strategy. The framework provides five areas to be regulated namely: The feedstock Protocol. The protocol mitigates the risk of the biofuels program towards food security. The mandatory blending regulations so as to create certainty […]
