In Nebraska, DTN reports the crush margins on its hypothetical ethanol plant took a hit recently due to rising corn futures that were 54 cents per bushel higher than when last calculated in August at $3.79. The jump in corn prices pushed the crush margin into negative territory to a 7.6 cent per gallon loss […]
In France, Messer and Vertex Bioenergy have renewed and intensified their partnership. As part of this agreement, Messer build and operate a second CO₂ recovery unit on the site of Vertex Bioenergy Lacq in the southwest of France near the Spanish border. For its part, Vertex Bioenergy, through its company Bioenergy du Sud-Ouest, SA will supply […]
In California, Brightmark LLC and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. announced the formation of a joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC, to own projects across the United States to produce and market dairy biomethane, a renewable natural gas (RNG). Equity investments by each company in the new venture will fund construction of infrastructure and commercial operation of […]
In Missouri, innumerable road trips and hundreds of plants have resulted in a paper, “A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci,” in Nature Biotechnology. Researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, along with researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) […]
In Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested $22 million out of the up to $100 million in grants available to increase American ethanol and biodiesel sales. These funds were made available through the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) to recipients in 14 states. […]
The recent Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates have shown us that everyone has boxing gloves on these days, but now a company has created boxing gloves made from cactus leather instead of the traditional cowhide leather, making your fight a more sustainable and eco-friendlier one. In today’s Digest, lignin-based asphalt is getting a test drive, the […]
At ABLC 2020, Troy Semelsberger from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carrie Hartford from Jenike & Johanson shared this illuminating slide guide on the Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium’s latest work on acoustic sensors for the real-time monitoring of plug-screw feeder wear and erosion, moisture, and “smart” transfer chutes coupled with acoustic moisture sensors, and more.
In Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the smallest and most powerful scissors ever invented: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Digest readers will easily recognize Doudna for co-founding Caribou Life Sciences (more here) and also serving on […]
In Germany, Watson Farley & Williams advised the Tradebe Group on the acquisition of Tanklager Wilhelmsburg GmbH from BDH Biodiesel Hamburg GmbH, a subsidiary of the Dr Oetker Group. ING Corporate Finance acted as financial adviser to Tradebe. TWG currently consists of 22 tanks with a total storage capacity of circa 74,000 cubic meters located […]
In Brazil, ICIS reports Braskem sold a record 17,000 metric tons of its Green PE, polyethylene produced from ethylene derived from sugarcane ethanol, in September. That figure is compared to 188,000 tons of fossil-based PE sold. Both figures refer to sales in the domestic market. The company says it is back up at full production […]
