Solazyme has expanded its board of directors to include Ian Clark, current CEO of Genentech, and Ann Mather, lead director at MGM Holdings, Inc. and former CFO of Pixar Studios.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 1.59 percent to 92.61 as shareholders punished ADM following their earnings release. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) plunged 6.73 percent to $34.51, while Cosan (CZZ) slumped 4.44 percent to $11.83. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) dropped 2.74 percent to $19.85. Overall, […]
Your broker has told you about this high-flying “bio-something” stock, AMRS, that’s up 60 percent in the past six months. What is Amyris, and what’s ahead? The Digest goes in-depth, and talks with CEO John Melo. So, what exactly do you own when you buy into Amyris? You now own a piece of a company […]
In California, Cobalt Technologies announced that it has closed a $20M Series D funding round. The round was led by The Whittemore Collection Ltd., the investment vehicle of Parsons & Whittemore, formerly one of the world’s largest manufacturers of market pulp and builder of some 60 pulp mills in 28 countries. All of Cobalt’s current […]
In California, Abundant Biofuels Corp. has merged with Biojet International and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary. Abundant controls more than four million hectares in ten countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. It has sufficient nursery seed stock to develop Jatropha plantations over the next three years capable of producing more than 20 million barrels […]
In Nebraska, tighter ethanol margins have cut Green Plains Renewable Energy’s profits by half for the first quarter of 2011 compared to the first quarter in 2010. The company’s CEO says that the corn price has doubled to $7 a bushel and “forward ethanol margins are compressed during the middle of the year with no […]
In Uruguay, Alcoholes del Uruguay has begun its sweet sorghum harvest for ethanol production two weeks ahead of its traditional sugarcane harvest set to begin mid-May. The company operates a distillery based in Bella Union that produces 26 million liters per year.
In New Zealand, a researcher from Waikato University’s Institute of Business Studies says that the drives to free up land for ethanol production will fundamentally change the nature of the dairy industry over the next decade, forcing farmers to house cattle and feed them supplements rather than graze them as has been done traditionally. Doing […]
In the UK, British Sugar has been dragged into the dispute over Vivergo’s ethanol plant that is under construction in Saltend. The GMB union staged a peaceful protest of the company’s Newark sugar factory last week with former employees of the engineering firm whose contract was terminated in March over alleged poor performance.
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