In Washington, Blue Flint Ethanol joined Growth Energy, the coalition of U.S. ethanol supporters,as its 67th plant member. Blue Flint Ethanol is a 50 million gallon plant located in Underwood, N.D. Plant General Manager Jeff Zueger said his plant decided to join Growth Energy because they support the direction and the approach that Growth Energy […]
In California, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov upraded Amyris’ stock from Market Perform to Outperform with a share price target of $31, commenting that “With shares down 13% since March 24, erasing virtually all of the year-to-date gains, we believe the risk/reward profile has become more attractive.” Molchanov wrote that “this won’t be an earnings […]
In New Zealand, LanzaTech is partnering with China’s LCY Chemical Corporation to identify key bio-based chemicals to produce for global fuels and chemicals markets. Mr Lee says LCY plans to investigate alternative bio-C2 to C5 feedstock as raw materials, replacing petroleum oil for LCY’s current portfolio of products such as TPE, PP, solvents, and methanol […]
In Zambia, South African company AGZAM is preparing to invest $251 million in a new sugar and ethanol facility. At full capacity, the mill that is set to come online in 2013 should produce 28 million liters of ethanol per year in addition to 200,000 metric tons of sugar. More on the story.
In Malta, the UK subsidiary of Ohio-based Genesyst says it plans to invest $618 million in three waste-to-ethanol facilities on the island using predominantly imported waste. The first facility will produce 90 million liters annually and could be online as soon as 2013 while the second will be double the size and come online a […]
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In California, a research team led by Mascoma co-founder Charles Wyman, concluded that sugar release from poplar trees increases dramatically when the tree has a high ratio of syringyl and guaiacyl, two lignin subunits. Further, the researchers found that certain poplar samples that produced unusually high sugar yields with no pretreatment. Reducing pretreatment would represent […]
In Washington, Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma has withdrawn his attempt to end VEETC, an amendment he had added on to the Small Business Bill. He made the move after Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and other Senators from the corn-growing region blocked a vote on the amendment but Coburn has vowed to not give up. […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged up 0.16 percent to a new 33-month high of 94.71 as Amyris gained on an upgrade. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) was up 0.82 percent to $37.02, while Amyris (AMRS) jumped 3.77 percent to $27.81. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) […]
Investors, first gen biofuels, oil companies join the advanced biofuels parade “Coming out of graduate school at MIT in the late 1990s,” Biofuel Energy CEO Scott Pearce recalls, “everyone was flooding into technology companies, dot coms, and I went back into the boring energy space. I mean, there was nobody going that way in the […]
