In Washington, Ensyn Chairman Dr. Robert Graham has received the 2016 Holmberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Bioenergy. Dr. Graham was presented the award at the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference held in Washington, DC. The award was presented to Dr. Graham by Jim Lane, Editor and Publisher, The Digest and Gilles Gauthier, Minister (Economic Affairs) at the Embassy […]
Where is the bioeconomy headed? In the annual State of the Industry briefing at the 2016 Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, the Digest presented a survey on that topic. Here are the trends we spotted in the data. 1. Chemicals on the rise. 55 percent of those developing a bioeconomy project that will be complete before […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” With baseball’s spring training once again underway, it seemed appropriate to channel one of that sport’s legendary players into an article on biofuels. The late, great New York Yankee catcher and all-round American folk commentator, Yogi Berra, coined many timeless observations. “The future ain’t what it used to […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, regained 0.79 percent to 48.39 as ethanol surged. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) rebounded 4.49 percent to $1.86, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared 5.93 percent to $3.57. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) shed 11.48 percent to $0.54. Overall, advances led declines by a […]
In Washington, the Biomass Research and Development Board has recommended “targeting a potential 30% penetration of biomass carbon into the U.S. transportation market by 2030 in a sustainable and cost-effective manner to create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas impacts, and enhance national security,” according to the 2016 Federal Activities Report on the Bioeconomy, which debuted at the Advanced […]
By Pavel Molchanov, Senior Vice President, Raymond James This week, we attended the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, a major annual gathering of firms in the bioindustrial space. As we noted in our conference recap from March 2015, the industry’s focus had been pivoting away from transportation fuels well before the oil meltdown began in mid-2014. […]
In Washington, the American Chemical Society in cooperation with LanzaTech, Intrexon and other leading bio-based chemical companies, announced at ABLC the formation of a Biochemical Technology Leadership Roundtable. This collaboration will identify and address key scientific challenges such as those relating to scaling up biochemical technologies in a sustainable way. Membership is open to all […]
In Louisiana, Whitefox Technologies Limited announced at the National Ethanol Conference an agreement with Iowa-based Pine Lake Corn Processors to install the first Whitefox ICESolution in the Mid-West. PLCP operates a 30-million gallon per year ethanol plant in Steamboat Rock, Iowa. Whitefox’s technology reduces energy consumption, increases production efficiencies and contributes to the production of […]
In Quebec, BioFuelNet Canada has partnered with Talk Energy Week to participate as panelists at schools in eight Canadian cities, where they will be discussing sustainable advanced biofuels with over 1800 grade 11 and 12 students. Each participating classroom will be sent a series of educational infographics, illustrating various types of biofuels, where they come […]
In Germany, UFOP said that cash market prices for rapeseed barely maintained the price gap against the previous year. Prices buyers currently pay for the upcoming crop are even below the year-ago level. The massive decline in crude oil prices and the temporarily firm euro sent rapeseed prices in Paris plummeting to the lowest level […]
