In Washington, DC, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor celebrated a major regulatory victory that will open the nation’s fourth largest fuel market to E15 – fuel mixed with 15 percent ethanol. Under a rule finalized by the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets, New York will become the newest state to allow the sale […]
Air Protein introduces world’s first air-based food It sounds like a magic trick…the magician pulls a quarter from behind your ear, seemingly out of thin air. So is it magic? Or is it just a bunch of hot air? We are told to chew with our mouths closed, not just because it’s proper manners, but […]
Amyris is working on a MegaBio goal. Mega because it’s a big goal – develop a fully integrated and scalable process to produce farnesene from cellulosic sugars at $2 per liter in the U.S. Quinn Mitrovich from Amyris gave this illuminating presentation at the DOE’s BETO 2019 Project Peer Review that details how they are […]
Feeding the world has been an issue on everyone’s mind for as long as we can remember and Calysta ties in nicely with today’s top story about food and protein because they are approaching protein ingredients from a whole new way and are on the brink of commercialization. Their first product, FeedKind, is made using […]
In Canada, Greenfield Global Inc., Canada’s largest ethanol producer, and Hy2gen Canada, the first mover for commercial production and distribution of green hydrogen, announced their intention to create a joint venture that will develop and operate a facility in Varennes (Québec) for industrial-scale production of green hydrogen and other zero-carbon energy products. The companies are […]
In Connecticut, American GreenFuels, LLC announced that its certified biodiesel product has achieved two UL Environmental Claim Validations: (1) Recycled Content – Biodiesel produced by American GreenFuels, LLC contains an average of 42% post-consumer recycled content, and, (2) Byproduct Synergy – Biodiesel produced by American GreenFuels, LLC contains an average of 46% by-product synergy feedstock […]
In Malaysia, the Borneo Post newspaper reports that the primary industries ministry is exploring cooperation with the finance ministry to create a fund to stabilize the price of biodiesel with 3% of the export taxes lobbed on palm oil circled back to finance it. The tax is only applied to exports when palm oil prices […]
In Finland, Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is one of the founding members of the new 4evergreen industry alliance together with other members of CEPI, the European association representing the paper industry. The new alliance aims to boost the contribution of fiber-based packaging in a circular and sustainable economy that minimizes climate and environmental […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that Indian mills can only supply 60% of the ethanol required annually for the 5% blending mandate, around 3.55 billion liters compared to 5.11 billion liters required by oil marketing companies for blending in 2019/20. But even so, because of expectations of better prices elsewhere along with lower […]
In Malaysia, The Edge Markets reports that the head of LMC International says cooperation between countries to boost biodiesel blending mandates will help support palm oil prices. In order to achieve these stronger prices, coordination among Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries will be required. Although most of the attention has been on Malaysia and […]
