Archive for 2019

3D printing lignin, potato postal sleeves, alginate sausage casing, tree to textiles, chemical recycling and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 2nd

3D printing lignin, potato postal sleeves, alginate sausage casing, tree to textiles, chemical recycling and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 2nd

January 2, 2019 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of January 2nd. In today’s Digest, 3D printing lignin, potato postal sleeves, alginate sausage casing, tree to textiles, chemical recycling — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. #1 Oak Ridge […]

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Aviation Solutions: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Neste

Aviation Solutions: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Neste

January 1, 2019 |

Neste has a strong history of developing, commercializing, and marketing new fuels, including diesel, renewable chemicals, renewable jet fuel, and more. Neville Fernandes from Neste, gave this illuminating overview of their plans for the production and expansion of renewable jet fuel as well as plans for new products of the future at the recent CAAFI […]

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What China does on corn, ethanol and DDGS seen driving market in 2019

What China does on corn, ethanol and DDGS seen driving market in 2019

January 1, 2019 |

In the Midwest, Platts reports that if China decides to continue its retaliatory tariffs on US soybeans, it would see farmers switch planting this spring to more corn than soybean which would in turn depress corn prices and increase margins. Improved margins would then not only boost ethanol production but also demand for DDGS, also […]

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USDA says no sugar needed for Feedstock Flexibility Program in 2018

USDA says no sugar needed for Feedstock Flexibility Program in 2018

January 1, 2019 |

In Washington, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2018, which runs from Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019. The CCC is required by law each quarter to announce estimates of sugar […]

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When the going gets tough… The tough go to Mexico?

When the going gets tough… The tough go to Mexico?

January 1, 2019 |

In Washington, ACE continues to work with automakers on high-octane fuels as one of the founding members of the Ag Auto Ethanol (AAE) alliance. ACE helped the AAE infrastructure and communications team create an “unbranded” retailer handout, patterned after flexfuelforward.com. The handout will be available by the end of the year. And as our opponents […]

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Breeding sorghum in South Africa could be breakthrough for biofuels

Breeding sorghum in South Africa could be breakthrough for biofuels

January 1, 2019 |

In South Africa, a breakthrough by the African Centre for Crop Improvement in the breeding of sorghum could have far-reaching implications for the biofuel and bioplastic industries in South Africa. With funding from Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which is based in South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST), Laing has been working on how […]

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Swedish horticulture company teams up to offer biomaterials for cultivation industry

Swedish horticulture company teams up to offer biomaterials for cultivation industry

January 1, 2019 |

In Sweden, Oboya Horticulture Industries AB has signed an important and long-term cooperation agreement on environmentally friendly biomaterials with Gaia Biomaterials AB in Helsingborg, Sweden. The agreement means that Oboya uses Gaias biomaterials for the production and development of environmentally friendly cultivation products for the cultivation industry. The cooperation agreement means that Oboya uses Gaias […]

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Inscripta™ says proprietary CRISPR enzyme achieved wide adoption during first year on the market

Inscripta™ says proprietary CRISPR enzyme achieved wide adoption during first year on the market

January 1, 2019 |

In Colorado, Inscripta™, a leading gene-editing technology company, announced that MAD7, its proprietary CRISPR enzyme, has achieved wide adoption by academic, commercial, and government researchers in its first year of availability. MAD7 was recently recognized by the Scientist magazine as one of the “Top 10 Innovations of 2018.” To build on the progress that Inscripta […]

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Russian scientists develop method to enhance enzymes using radio frequency radiation

Russian scientists develop method to enhance enzymes using radio frequency radiation

January 1, 2019 |

In Russia, scientists at ITMO University developed a method to enhance the activity of enzymes by using radio frequency radiation. The method requires making a special complex consisting of enzymes and magnetic nanoparticles. The particles can adsorb radio emission and convert it to heat, resulting in enzymatic processes acceleration by more than four times. Such […]

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ORNL researchers create renewable 3D printing feedstock from lignin

ORNL researchers create renewable 3D printing feedstock from lignin

January 1, 2019 |

In Tennessee, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur a profitable new use for an intractable biorefinery byproduct: lignin. The discovery, detailed in Science Advances, expands ORNL’s achievements in lowering the cost of bioproducts by creating novel uses for lignin—the […]

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