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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to FermWorx

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to FermWorx

November 9, 2023 |

This week on the Digest webinar stage, we looked at solving the critical shortage of fermentation capacity. FERMWORX, LLC, based in Columbus, Georgia, is a fermentation company that specializes in high quality biopolymers and bio-based fermentation products produced in the United States. FermWorx’s Jon Getzinger presented these slides on the company’s promise and progress.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act

November 8, 2023 |

IRA, everyone has heard about it — what does it mean? The IRA has been billed as the largest clean energy infrastructure investment in United States history. It allotted $370B to the development and promotion of clean energy solutions. The IRA is designed to include both supply and demand side incentive programs. In our industry […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Origin Materials

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Origin Materials

November 7, 2023 |

Origin is the world’s leading carbon negative materials company. The Origin platform turns the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, while eliminating the need for fossil resources and capturing carbon in the process. Origin Co-CEO John Bissell  took us through the hard data and company horizons with these slides presented at ABLC Next 2023.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to HTL technology scale-up

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to HTL technology scale-up

November 6, 2023 |

HTL represents a processing technology that precludes the need to evaporate or dry the waste feed prior to conversion to fuel. In fact HTL requires that the feed be aqueous. HTL enables the conversion of the organic components in the feed to bio-oil and bio-gas. Merrick’s Chris Biodillo gave these slides at ABLC Next 2023 […]

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Nick Andrews Takes His Hat Off: The making of the historic Southwest Airlines/USA BioEnergy SAF pact

Nick Andrews Takes His Hat Off: The making of the historic Southwest Airlines/USA BioEnergy SAF pact

November 5, 2023 |

In the world of the bioeconomy, USA BioEnergy CEO Nick Andrews is known as “the guy with the cowboy hat”. He’s almost never seen without it, on the sidelines of ABLC or other major events. He’s the Tim McGraw of the bioeconomy.  I caught up with Nick as the historic 680 million gallons offtake deal […]

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The Sydney Communique of the Bold Goals Action Group

The Sydney Communique of the Bold Goals Action Group

October 30, 2023 |

The participants in the Sydney meeting of the Bold Goals Action Group, a coalition of the willing working to accelerate the rate of deployment in the advanced bioeconomy, issued the following Communique: The initial meeting of the Bold Goals Action Group was held in Sydney on 22 September 2023. It involved leaders of companies and […]

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Bold Actions to Accelerate the Bioeconomy: Findings from the Bold Goals Action Group

Bold Actions to Accelerate the Bioeconomy: Findings from the Bold Goals Action Group

October 30, 2023 |

In San Francisco on the sidelines of the ABLC NEXT 2023 meeting, a coalition of the willing called the Bold Goals Action Group outlined a series of 31 Bold Actions that must be taken by industry and government in order to achieve the global timelines for Net Zero economies that address climate change and the […]

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Report from TECO: the growing corn ethanol industry in Latin America

Report from TECO: the growing corn ethanol industry in Latin America

October 28, 2023 |

Special to The Digest The current landscape and prospects of the corn ethanol industry was the focus of the 9th edition of TECO Latin America, hosted by Novozymes, the leader in biosolutions and producers of enzymes and yeast for the corn ethanol sector worldwide. TECO Latin America is the leading event in the Latin American […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Adsorptive De-Nitrogenation as a pathway to SAF 

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Adsorptive De-Nitrogenation as a pathway to SAF 

October 24, 2023 |

The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium is a National Laboratory-led effort, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, that is dedicated to identifying and overcoming separations challenges associated with the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. This Consortium’s work is helping to reduce bioprocess separations costs, which can account for up to 50-70% […]

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They Said it, They Showed It: Heard on the Floor at ABLC Next 2023

They Said it, They Showed It: Heard on the Floor at ABLC Next 2023

October 23, 2023 |

They Said it at ABLC Henrik Pedersen, Topsoe: “Make every carbon molecule count.” Vicki Thompson, Idaho National Lab, “You can’t just put a corn stalk in your fuel tank.” Christian Librera, UPM: “The US is about incentive and innovation; Europe has become a place of penalty and regulation.” Brain Foody, Iogen, “Scale up is where […]

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