In Illinois, ethanol prices on the Chicago Board of Trade are rallying on high corn prices thanks to a hot summer that keeps shrinking expectations for the corn crop. Crude oil prices have also advanced, helping to push ethanol prices to three-week highs, up 22% this year. The crush margin is running at between 23 […]
In New Zealand, Aquaflow has teamed with Texas-based CRI Catalyst to test Aquaflow’s technology to produce fuels from algae and other sources such as timber with CRI’s integrated hydropyrolysis and hydroconversion (IH2) technology that it has the global rights to. Together they may build a demonstration plant, most likely sited in the US, likely producing […]
In the UK, the Vivergo ethanol plant under construction in Saltend that ran into a contract dispute with its engineers is now back on track and expects to come online in 2012. The facility will produce 420 million liters of ethanol and half a million tonnes of animal feed from a million tons of wheat […]
In Brazil, it’s no longer sugarcane that is being blamed for deforestation in the Amazon but instead the commercialization of a traditional tree called the babassu palm. There are more than 400,000 women and their families who have traditionally processed the palm for oil, soaps, flour and animal feed but now Tecbio based in Fortaleza […]
In Germany, FKur told Packaging Digest that they will be presenting a transparent injection moldable grade cellulose acetate product at Fakuma 2011. Denise Winkelmann of FkuR is quoted as saying, “Biograde V 2091 is our latest development of the cellulose acetate based Biograde products. Within the packaging sector it allows for the realisation of diverse […]
Today on Twitter. Biochat: Tonight’s #Biochat Topic: How do we best grow a grassroots #Biofuels movement? WICornHeiress: If #farmers in 3rd world countries could be as productive as the #American farmer, we would feed 60% more people while having #biofuels. navyexperience: NEW: Investing in Advanced Biofuels to Create Jobs JoyFarmgirl: @WICornHeiress: corn is a renewable […]
In California, Codexis VP of Biochemistry and Engineering R&D James Lalonde said that in its program to develop customized carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzymes that could catalyze carbon capture under industrial conditions, CA performance has been improved by about two million fold over natural forms of the enzyme. Evolved CA enzymes are functional and stable, he […]
In Brazil, the country’s national energy regulator ANP has announced new proposals to regulate the sugarcane-based ethanol industry. Mills will be expected to report annually to ANP their production capacity, production plans, about their sugarcane crop and about their co-generation capacity. The ANP means for mills to keep 120 days worth of production on hand […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, advanced 0.28 percent to 72.39 as small caps gained. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) picked up 0.64 percent to $28.43, while Gevo (GEVO) shed 4.47 percent to $10.89 . Among other equities, Verenium (VRNM) soared 20.59 percent to $2.87. Overall, advances and […]
In California, Genomatica, Inc. announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed $100 million initial public offering of shares of its common stock. All shares of the common stock to be sold in the offering will be offered by Genomatica. […]
