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What a Microbe Would Say on Glassdoor

What a Microbe Would Say on Glassdoor

March 18, 2019 |

By Mark Warner, PE, Founder, Warner Advisors LLC Special to The Digest In my previous article on Scale-up from the Microbes Perspective, I discussed how the biotechnology commercialization process would be viewed by a microbe. This is a little lighter topic than the engineering subjects I usually write about, but the robust response to the […]

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Beginning with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Due Diligence

Beginning with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Due Diligence

March 18, 2019 |

Lee Enterprises Consulting is the world’s largest bioeconomy consulting group with over 100 subject matter experts (SME’s) in all areas of the bioeconomy. Doug Rivers, Ph.D., from Sunflwr Consulting and a member of Lee Enterprises Consulting, offers this overview of considerations for due diligence, figuring out where your technology readiness level is, risk mitigation tips, […]

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Disruptive Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Praj Industries

Disruptive Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Praj Industries

March 16, 2019 |

Praj Industries is an end-to-end solutions provider in the ethanol arena from concept to commissioning and feedstock handling to effluent treatment. They have technology and engineering solutions for biofuels, biochemicals and water. Dr. Pramod Kumbhar, Chief Technology Officer at Praj Industries offers this illuminating overview of their latest achievements and developments including bench and pilot […]

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Methane to Chemicals: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to iMicrobes

Methane to Chemicals: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to iMicrobes

March 16, 2019 |

Industrial Microbes upgrades methane to various multi-carbon chemicals using synthetic biology. Noah Helman, CSO and Co-Founder of iMicrobes gave this illuminating overview of methane as a feedstock, the breakthrough in active MMO in E.coli that has allowed easier methane to methanol conversion, and more at ABLC Global 2018 in San Francisco.

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Biomass for Bioenergy: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to IEA Bioenergy’s Biomass Supply Task

Biomass for Bioenergy: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to IEA Bioenergy’s Biomass Supply Task

March 16, 2019 |

The International Energy Agency is an autonomous organization that works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 30 member countries and beyond. Professor Mark Brown, Director of Forest Industries Research Centre – USC, IEA Bioenergy Exco Rep for Australia, and Task Leader for the IEA Bioenergy Task on Biomass Supply, gave this illuminating […]

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Beginning with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Due Diligence

Beginning with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Due Diligence

March 16, 2019 |

Doug Rivers, Ph.D., from Sunflwr Consulting and a member of Lee Enterprises Consulting, offers this overview of considerations for due diligence, figuring out where your technology readiness level is, risk mitigation tips, and more.

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Biomass Breakdown: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Sweetwater Energy

Biomass Breakdown: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Sweetwater Energy

March 16, 2019 |

Sweetwater Energy has developed a unique and patented technology for producing low-cost sugars and clean lignin fiber from multiple non-food plant materials to help meet the modern world’s increasing demand for biochemicals, bioplastics and biofuels. Jack Baron, President and Executive Vice President of Sweetwater Energy, gave this illuminating overview of their cost-effective “Sunburst” technology that […]

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Evonik creates new oil additives business

Evonik creates new oil additives business

March 14, 2019 |

In Germany, Evonik is merging its specialty methacrylate monomers – the Applications Monomers Product Line – with its current oil additives business to become the new Oil Additives business line within the Resource Efficiency segment. Application Monomers were formerly part of the Methacrylate business of Evonik, which is currently in the process of being sold to US-based […]

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Biomanufacturing as a Service: Culture Biosciences lands Series A for its bioreactors accessed via the Cloud

Biomanufacturing as a Service: Culture Biosciences lands Series A for its bioreactors accessed via the Cloud

March 14, 2019 |

In California, a new company has launched called Culture Biosciences and today we’d like to take you inside it. It’s a story about making the bioeconomy radically more efficient at the point of developing and deploying product, by offering Biomanufacturing-as-a-Service. This month, Culture Bio, based in the industrial biotech hub of South San Francisco, nabbed […]

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US Clean Energy Jobs Grow 3.6% to Nearly 3.3 Million

US Clean Energy Jobs Grow 3.6% to Nearly 3.3 Million

March 13, 2019 |

In Washington, nearly 3.3 million Americans now work in clean energy, according to a new analysis of energy jobs data by the national nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs). Across the country, nearly every state saw an increase in clean energy jobs in 2018, combining to add about 110,000 net new jobs for a growth […]

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