Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass Feedstock National User Facility Capabilities for MSW to SAF

February 21, 2024 | Jim Lane

The Biomass Feedstock National User Facility (BFNUF) offers technology and expertise to help the U.S. bioenergy industry overcome biomass challenges during scale up and integration of biomass preprocessing facilities. The BFNUF is a congressionally designated, national asset designed to help de-risk the scale up of bioeconomy. A reconfigurable preprocessing testbed that is utilized by both […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Virent

February 20, 2024 | Jim Lane

In this presentation we looked at how Virent feedstock flexibility allows the use of commercially available sugars today, with the prospect of cellulosic sugars when commercially available and also the scalability of the technology, the opportunities in drop in fuels and also Virent biochemicals used in existing chemical manufacturing processes to produce sustainable plastics, fibers […]

The Pamplona Bioeconomy: watch out, the bulls are running

February 20, 2024 | Jim Lane

The bioeconomy is on fire, and three tales reveal the extent to which the bulls are running. One in RNG, one in industrial furnaces, one in integrated cellulosic biorefining. And you thought we were going to point to hydrogen, SAF or renewable diesel. Those are hot, too — but not quite as white how. Hot […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals and Materials

February 19, 2024 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced by global renewable chemical and materials producers in shifting towards low carbon alternatives — new processes, novel molecules with enhanced properties for green hydrogen, Methanol, plant-based meats & fish, fermentation capacity and true precision, plastic, the role of celebrities in driving adoption, economy-wide low carbon standards, the […]

How to secure offtake for your first-of-its-kind project

February 19, 2024 | Jim Lane

By Steve Weiss Special to The Digest At a recent bioeconomy-focused ABLC conference I counted over a dozen companies striving to ‘bring to life’ first-of-its-kind (FOIK) projects, in renewable chemicals, fuels or materials – typically requiring hundreds of millions each in financing. A critical ingredient to make these real? High-quality – investment-quality – offtake agreements. […]

The 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy 2024: with one week left for voting, who is in the lead?

February 18, 2024 | Jim Lane

In Florida, the Daily Digest has revealed the top 200 vote-getting organizations in the 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy 2024 rankings, with one week remaining in Digest subscriber voting. To date, 4870 votes have been tallied — the results below are indexed (100 equals the media vote total) and ranked. Voting is complete at […]

STX, BioValue unveil new financing structure for biomethane

February 18, 2024 | Jim Lane

In the Netherlands, STX Group has unveiled a new structure financing partnership with BioValue for the construction and development of the Groengas Cothen biomethane plant in the Netherlands. The project The new plant adds at least 80GWh of renewable natural gas capacity per year. This strategic move is aligned with STX Group’s mission to promote […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

February 15, 2024 | Jim Lane

Since 2005, LanzaTech has been working to create this closed-loop system using waste carbon to make the things we use in our daily lives. LanzaTech is changing how people think about carbon, creating value and new sustainable products across multiple markets. It’s been repeatedly honored as #1 in the 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy […]

Beast Mode Yeast Load, Least MO’d; Novonesis’ new Innova Delta, non-GM yeast for Biofuel producers

February 15, 2024 | Jim Lane

In Denmark, Novonesis, formerly Novozymes, has launched its latest and most exciting development in yeast technology— Innova Delta. Yes, they’re back in Beast Mode, and the beast mode yeast loads now have that new twist to them, a non-modified organism, that’s the Least MO’d in our headline today. Innova Delta ADY allows plants using non-GM […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Boeing and the journey to SAF at scale

February 14, 2024 | Jim Lane

Boeing Regional Director for Sustainability Dale Smith gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT 2023 in Washington, DC examining global emissions, the rise of SAF in the context of other emissions-limiting measures, and the progress and plans of Boeing in the support of SAF development.

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