In Luxembourg, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU bank, announced the launch of a loans package of nearly EUR1 billion for agriculture and the bioeconomy. The sum will be matched by the implementing financial institutions, thereby mobilizing close to EUR2 billion of long-term financing for companies in the sector. The announcement was made at […]
Recently from California comes the news that advanced materials wunderkind Checkerspot has closed its Series A financing for $13 million. A fascinating set of investors came in. There was no Claude Rains announcing “round up the usual suspects” on this one. Fair to say no one is announcing “Play it Again, Sam”, at Checkerspot, either. […]
INL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s complex of national laboratories. The laboratory performs work in each of the strategic goal areas of DOE: energy, national security, science and environment. INL is the nation’s leading center for nuclear energy research and development. Chenlin Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Engineer at Idaho National Laboratory, gave […]
SCIBAC has developed a patented MERGE (Microbial Enhanced Recombinants Generated by Evolution) platform for strain improvement works by harnessing and directing a natural evolutionary process where different species can mate. Jeanette Mucha, CEO, Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of SCIBAC, gave this illuminating overview of how they design live biotherapeutics to target antibiotic resistant disease […]
In Germany, a research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum has shown that operation in an oxygen-free environment significantly prolongs the life of the bioelectrode. “In order to generate energy sustainably and efficiently, we must not only understand but also overcome the processes that limit the lifetime of renewable energy conversion technologies,” says Wolfgang Schuhmann. The use […]
In Washington, D.C. the U.S. Grains Council strongly supports a decision made by the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body determining China administered its tariff-rate quotas for wheat, corn and rice inconsistently with its WTO requirements. The report found that China’s TRQ administration is not transparent, predictable or fair and that it ultimately inhibits TRQs […]
In Canada, Advanced Biofuels Canada released the Biofuels in Canada (BIC) 2019 report, which updates and expands upon previous reports by Navius Research. The 2019 report’s open-source database catalogs 2010-2017 biofuel blending rates, biofuel types, and feedstocks utilized at the provincial level, with aggregated Canadian results. GHG reductions are assessed annually by fuel type, with […]
In Maine, Biobased Maine, a membership organization whose mission is to achieve a sustainable biobased manufacturing industry in the state of Maine, said their Executive Director, Charlotte Mace, has been appointed to direct the Office of Business Development for the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development. She will move on from her role with […]
In Ireland, ClonBio Group reported record levels of ethanol, animal feed and corn oil sales, profits before tax that increased by 10% to €39 million (about $43.5 million), and more. ClonBio states in their press release that prospects for ethanol demand are good despite regressive EU policies and that a €20 million capital investment further […]
In the Netherlands, IEA Bioenergy released its latest report, Biomass Pretreatment for Bioenergy which summarizes the efforts of an inter-task project designed to demonstrate how the application of certain biomass pre-treatment technologies could make existing bioenergy supply chains more fuel flexible, more efficient, and more cost-effective. By applying biomass pre-treatment activities such as washing, drying, […]
