In France, Global Bioenergies agreed to acquire Netherlands-based gas fermentation company Syngip for €1.02M, with a milestone-based bonus that could boost the acquisition price up to €1.775M. The acquisition price includes assumption of €150K of Syngip’s debt. The deal is subject to shareholder approval. The ultimate goal Syngip talked here about the possibility of producing […]
In the UK, molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications. The study, led by a father and son team at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, solves a […]
News of high-level appointments have been streaming out of Trump Tower all this week and last, and two trends are already clear: it’s a group mostly out of the business and military communities, and there’s a pivot to Russia on. To us, it feels like the Nixon 1969 playbook, with one play run in reverse, […]
The old Christmas carol goes, “I saw three ships come sailing in,” and those perched on a widow’s walk this morning might have espied Anellotech, Edeniq, Novvi steaming in with material advances in their respective stories. For Anellotech, a new technology to extend catalyst life by reducing catalyst poisons that cause catalyst and product cost […]
In Washington, biobased industry veteran Cynthia L. Thyfault, CEO of Westar Trade Resources, was elected as Chairman of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee , at the December 1, 2016 committee meeting. REEEAC’s mission is to advise the US Secretary of Commerce on programs and policies that will increase U.S. exports, leading to […]
In South Korea, BioAmber and CJ CheilJedang Corporation signed a LOI for a joint venture in China to produce up to 36,000 metric tons of bio-succinic acid per year. It’s not a greenfield. The CJCJ JV involves a retrofit of an existing fermentation plant in a market that BioAmber cannot readily penetrate today. How is […]
It may be a sign of the times, a sense of worry that R&D for renewable transport fuels may lose all their popularity under the incoming Trump Administration. Whatever the cause, the biggest set of projects announced in renewable fuels since the days of the Recovery Act have been just announced by the Advanced Research […]
In Denmark, the national government has just decided on the 0,9% blending mandate for use of advanced biofuels made from waste materials, i.e. straw. The mandate is to be effective by 2020 and will be applied to the transportation sector of Denmark. “This is an ambitious and progressive decision taken today by the Danish government,” […]
In South Africa, the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has approved four NexSteppe sorghum hybrids for commercial sale in country. Approved hybrids include both Malibu sweet sorghum and Palo Alto biomass sorghum hybrids. Two out of three people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity. A major focus of this year’s U.N. […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that “the tight rapeseed supply situation in the UK sent local spot market prices soaring. At the same time, lower availability markedly curbed shipments abroad.” The small 2016 rapeseed harvest in the UK, which was down 30 per cent from the previous year, has had noticeable effect. The tight supply situation […]
