We all know going from demo to commercial isn’t easy. Ensyn, a company that produces biocrude from forest and agricultural residues using its proprietary thermal technology and focuses on low carbon fuels and chemicals, knows all about it. Ian S. Barnett, Chair of the Finance Committee and on Ensyn’s Board of Directors shared this illuminating […]
This week news came out of a partnership between Novozymes and Green Plains to use biological technology to extract more value from corn protein, at what used to be known as corn ethanol plants, but with this news we might finally and forever begin to think of them as something else. This provided us an […]
Hydrogenics is a unit of Cummins Inc. active in designing, manufacturing, building and installing industrial and commercial Hydrogen generation, Hydrogen fuel cells and MW-scale energy storage solutions. Based in Mississauga, Canada with manufacturing facilities located in Germany, Belgium and United States, the company offers PEM and alkaline Hydrogen generators for Industrial processes and Fueling stations, Hydrogen fuel […]
By Jeff Passmore, Founder and Chair of Scaling Up Special to The Digest Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the industrial bioeconomy, and it’s a strategy that can bring Ottawa […]
Culture Bioscience is trying to accelerate fermentation R&D to help companies get products to market faster and has built an automated bioreactor facility operated as a cloud service for biotechnology companies. Will Patrick, Co-founder and CEO of Culture had this illuminating presentation to share on their cloud bioreactor facility, how they are improving their tools […]
Clariant’s sunliquid technology integrates cellulosic sugar/ethanol production made from agricultural residues, integrated enzyme production, feedstock flexibility, and more. Paolo Corvo, Head of Sales & Marketing, Business Line Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant offered the latest and greatest updates on their sunliquid technology, the 7 year running plant in Germany, their new flagship plant progress en […]
Delta enters offtake agreement with Gevo for 10 million gallons per year of sustainable aviation fuel, creates long-term carbon solution. What does it mean? In Colorado and Georgia, Delta signed a take-or-pay deal to purchase 10 million gallons per year of advanced renewable biofuels from Gevo. Sustainable aviation fuels provide significant environmental benefits because the […]
Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & a bunch of investors new and returning — three transformative market shifts this week of epic proportion. Grabbing the dollar headlines has to be Inscripta’s eye-watering $125 million Series D cap raise, which will accelerate applications expansion and commercialization of the company’s revolutionary Onyx Digital […]
Cover crops are not all the same – just ask Dr. Tim Ulmasov, CTO of CoverCress who shared this presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco to introduce the first cash cover crop for the Midwest. It’s similar to canola, offers farmers a $50-70/acre cash margin, pluscover crop benefit over the winter, it is a […]
Why is working with biomass so challenging? Jonathan Male, Director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) set out to answer that question at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco. Check out his illuminating presentation on how BETO is exploring various strategies to reduce the price of biofuels toward $2/GGE, the latest on […]
