In California, genetically engineered trees that provide fire-resistant lumber for homes. Modified organs that won’t be rejected. Synthetic microbes that monitor your gut to detect invading disease organisms and kill them before you get sick. These are just some of the exciting advances likely to emerge from the 20-year-old field of engineering biology, or synthetic […]
In Minnesota, Highwater Ethanol has applied for permission from state environmental authorities to expand its air emissions permit in order to boost ethanol production to 70.2 million gallons per year from the current 59.5 million gallons in an effort to boost efficiencies and reduce the cost of production in a time of low margins but […]
In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports that Indian Oil Company has applied for environmental permissions to build a planned $100 million second generation ethanol facility co-located at its Panipat refinery using straw and other non-food biomass as feedstock. Praj will design the 100,000 liter per day facility that will use 473 metric tons of […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that Sao Martinho plans to invest more than $94 million in a new corn-based ethanol plant in Quirinópolis in Goiás, co-located with its Boa Vista mill. The new facility will produce 200 million liters of hydrous ethanol annually along with 140,000 metric tons of DDGS, but the company did not say […]
In Iowa, Iowa State University researchers weren’t looking for a slow-release fertilizer that could feed crops while protecting water quality, but they may have found one. Researchers looking to add value to biochar – a solid, porous co-product of heating corn stalks and other sources of biomass to produce liquid bio-oil in a process called […]
In Washington, National Corn Growers Association has begun airing an advertisement calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow President Trump’s commitment to farmers and stop giving Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) waivers to big oil companies. These waivers negatively impact farmers by undercutting the RFS and reducing corn demand. The ad features NCGA First […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Mercurius Biorefining, Inc. was established to produce profitable drop-in fuel (Diesel and Jet Fuel) from nonfood biomass feedstocks. Mercurius is […]
Lee Enterprises Consulting is the world’s largest bioeconomy consulting group with over 100 subject matter experts (SME’s) in all areas of the bioeconomy. Doug Rivers and others from LEC gave this illuminating presentation on due diligence in the bioeconomy, how it varies depending on the nature and stage of the project, how due diligence fits […]
In Nebraska, Green Plains Inc. announced the pricing of its offering of $105 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2024, which was upsized from the previously announced $100 million aggregate principal amount of notes. The notes are to be offered and sold in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers (as defined […]
In China, Reuters reports that despite an upcoming meeting between US and Chinese leaders next week and an investigation into anti-dumping tariffs on US-origin DDGS that concluded in April, the country has decided not to drop the tariffs because it fears that lowering the tariffs would encourage an untenable influx of DDGS that could damage […]
