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Strategic Intent: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

Strategic Intent: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

August 22, 2018 |

Founded in 2004, Green Plains Inc. is North America’s third largest producer of ethanol. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Green Plains has grown rapidly, primarily through acquisitions, and today has operating segments throughout the ethanol value chain. Operations begin upstream with a grain handling segment, continue through approximately 1.5 billion gallons of ethanol production capacity per […]

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Unorthodox antioxidant focus drives Stover Ventures towards cellulosic dream

Unorthodox antioxidant focus drives Stover Ventures towards cellulosic dream

August 22, 2018 |

A remarkable and usually under the radar company known as Stover Ventures is said to be nearing its once-unliekly goal of raising capital — mostly so far from Iowa farmers — to construct a biorefinery near Osage, Iowa which will convert up to 14,400 tons per year of corn stover into a neutraceutical extract and […]

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Osage can you see: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Stover Ventures

Osage can you see: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Stover Ventures

August 22, 2018 |

A remarkable and usually under the radar company known as Stover Ventures is said to be nearing its once-unliekly goal of raising capital — mostly so far from Iowa farmers — to construct a biorefinery near Osage, Iowa which will convert up to 14,400 tons per year of corn stover into a neutraceutical extract and […]

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Reebok’s plant-based shoe, fish-free seafood, mango-based bioplastic, breakthrough plant breeding, autosteer for small farms, biosand water filters, concrete from waste: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 22nd

Reebok’s plant-based shoe, fish-free seafood, mango-based bioplastic, breakthrough plant breeding, autosteer for small farms, biosand water filters, concrete from waste: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 22nd

August 21, 2018 |

The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of significant product and service advances. For now, we’re going to be tracking these on a weekly basis to keep pace with the changes. Here are the top innovations for the week […]

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Strategic Positioning: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris

Strategic Positioning: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris

August 20, 2018 |

For many people, a key question in the advanced bioeconomy continues to be: “what is Amyris becoming, and when, and where and how?” Becoming a global leader in the health and beauty market, and self-funding operations in 2018 with at least $10 million in EBITDA this year — those are the targets appearing out of […]

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27 technologies to produce lower carbon fuels from “second chance carbon” — and its practicioners. Who’s doing what, where, when, why and how?

27 technologies to produce lower carbon fuels from “second chance carbon” — and its practicioners. Who’s doing what, where, when, why and how?

August 20, 2018 |

In the EU, perhaps the most comprehensive and useful guide to fuels and chemicals produced from “Recycled carbon fuels”, such as those produced from waste plastics or waste industrial gases, appeared from the gurus at E4Tech. And, there’s the world of alternative fuels and chemicals produced from lower-carbon fossil sources such as natural gas. There […]

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High end crop traits: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

High end crop traits: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

August 19, 2018 |

Calyxt is pioneering a paradigm shift to deliver both healthier specialty food ingredients, such as healthier oils and high fiber wheat for consumers as well as agriculturally advantageous traits, such as herbicide tolerance to farmers. The technology enables Calyxt to precisely and specifically edit a plant genome to elicit the desired traits and characteristics, resulting […]

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Advanced biorefineries: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

Advanced biorefineries: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

August 18, 2018 |

Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants using patented technology to produce lower carbon, higher value advanced biofuels and chemicals using lower cost, non-food energy sources and feedstocks. Of special interest is the Aemetis cellulosic refinery using agricultural […]

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Earnings Season: as Novozymes, DSM, Amyris, Gevo, Corbion, and Aemetis report, who’s up, who’s down?

Earnings Season: as Novozymes, DSM, Amyris, Gevo, Corbion, and Aemetis report, who’s up, who’s down?

August 16, 2018 |

In today’s Digest, let’s look at trends driving the industry’s results at scale — and while money is not the measure of all progress, it is the ultimate yardstick and especially for companies that have reached industrial scale. So, let’s look at Q2 earnings statements now just coming out from four of the sector’s signature […]

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Fly Green: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to SkyNRG

Fly Green: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to SkyNRG

August 14, 2018 |

SkyNRG is the global market leader for sustainable jet fuel, supplying more than 20 carriers across 5 continents in the world. SkyNRG’s sustainable jet fuel can offer CO2 emission reductions up to 80% compared to fossil jet fuel. SkyNRG’s Oskar Meijerink gave this illuminating overview of the company’s promise and progress at ABLC 2018 in […]

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