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Biopolymers for smartphones, Romanian hoof fungus furniture, Clariant’s biobased surfactants, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of February 11th

Biopolymers for smartphones, Romanian hoof fungus furniture, Clariant’s biobased surfactants, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of February 11th

February 10, 2022 |

We know smartphones and electronics are huge resource sucks that utilize rare minerals, fossil fuels, and precious resources, so cheers to a China-based smartphone maker that is now using a biobased polycarbonate copolymer produced by Saudi Arabia’s SABIC. And in Japan, Kaneka is investing $130 million to triple production capacity for its biopolymer brand Green […]

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Greenlane Renewables closes acquisition of Airdep

Greenlane Renewables closes acquisition of Airdep

February 6, 2022 |

In Canada, Greenlane Renewables Inc., global provider of biogas upgrading systems, closed its acquisition of Airdep S.R.L., a provider of biogas desulfurization and air deodorization products based in Vicenza, Italy. The acquisition of Airdep will bring in-house an effective and proven technology to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from biogas for integration with Greenlane’s portfolio of […]

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DMC raises total of $39M with addition of new investors

DMC raises total of $39M with addition of new investors

February 6, 2022 |

In Colorado, DMC Biotechnologies, Inc. announced that strategic investors Continental Grain Company, through their venture arm Conti Ventures, and Toyobo have joined the Series B fundraising round, bringing the total raised to $39 million. DMC previously announced the first close of its Series B fundraising on 2 December 2021 with investment from Cibus Enterprise, Capricorn […]

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Port of Hamburg cooperates with world’s largest hydrogen producer

Port of Hamburg cooperates with world’s largest hydrogen producer

February 6, 2022 |

In Germany, Air Products and the Hamburg Port Authority are now working together, under a Memorandum of Understanding, to identify potential ways of establishing a comprehensive hydrogen value chain across the port of Hamburg. Both Air Products and the HPA are aligned in their intention to accelerate the production, supply chain and consumption of hydrogen […]

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Two new bioenergy Requests for Information released from BETO

Two new bioenergy Requests for Information released from BETO

February 6, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office released two new Requests for Information (RFI) around biomass and energy issues, focusing on biomass conversion research, development and analysis and community-scale resource and energy recovery from waste solutions. The first, titled “Biomass Conversion Research, Development, and Analysis […]

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Lhyfe raises $19.5M primarily from Andera Partners

Lhyfe raises $19.5M primarily from Andera Partners

February 6, 2022 |

In France, renewable green hydrogen production company, Lhyfe, raised funds for a third time, for a sum of €17 million (about $19.5 million). The purpose of this third fundraising is to support Lhyfe’s strategy for the deployment of renewable hydrogen production sites in Europe. Most of the funds came from Andera Partners via its new […]

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Ethanol production up 11.2% same week last year but 3.7% less than two years ago

Ethanol production up 11.2% same week last year but 3.7% less than two years ago

February 6, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., ethanol production increased by 6,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 0.6%, to 1.041 million b/d, equivalent to 43.72 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 11.2% more than the same week last year, which was affected by the pandemic, but 3.7% less than the […]

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Iowa House Passes Biofuels Bill

Iowa House Passes Biofuels Bill

February 6, 2022 |

In Iowa, the Iowa House of Representatives passed a bill proposed by Governor Kim Reynolds to increase consumer access to higher biofuel blends like B20. House File 2128 now moves on to the state senate. Grant Kimberley, Iowa Biodiesel Board executive director, issued the following statement: “We commend the House for passing this common sense, […]

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Researchers answer burning questions on biochar

Researchers answer burning questions on biochar

February 6, 2022 |

In North Carolina, the Soil Science Society of America reports that Duke University researchers led a study to determine how biochar affected microbes like fungi, as well as trees. Biochar can be produced from many things like corn cobs, rice husks or pine wood and is created through pyrolysis, where the material is heated in […]

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Sustainable Mobility & Transport, Circular Economy, Industrial Emissions: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste’s Market Outlook

Sustainable Mobility & Transport, Circular Economy, Industrial Emissions: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste’s Market Outlook

February 6, 2022 |

Neste published its new Market and Innovation Outlook report which compiles Neste’s views based on validated data for regulators, innovators, industry players and other organizations aiming to create a renewable and circular future. The Digest culled key slides from the report’s 3 key themes.

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