By Mark Warner, PE, Founder, Warner Advisors LLC, Special to The Digest What does a relationship book from the 1990’s have to do with successfully scaling up biotechnology? More than you would expect. In this case, we are substituting engineers and business developers, then focusing on the differences in how they view biotechnology commercialization and the […]
In Illinois, zuChem announced a multi-year process development, commercial product supply and marketing agreement with Qianyan Alloy Materials, Ltd. for the sugar building block l-fucose. Qianyan Alloy Materials provides a unique combination of Western quality and intellectual property protection, together with rapid and efficient process development, and production of food ingredients and pharmaceutical chemicals at its facilities in the […]
In the UK, Velocys plc appointed of David Pummell as Chief Executive Officer. He joins Velocys from ACAL Energy Ltd, a private equity backed fuel cell technology company developing products for the automotive and stationary power sectors, where he was CEO. Prior to this, David was CEO of MAPS Technology Ltd, where he successfully commercialised […]
In the Ivory Coast, Ecoslops has received an agreement in principle from the Port of Abidjan to provide the company with land on which to establish a new oil residue recycling plant in the region. The Ivory Coast project follows the successful implementation of industrial production at Ecoslops’ first plant in the Port of Sinès, Portugal, […]
In West Virginia, Entsorga West Virginia announced the groundbreaking of the U.S.’s first resource recovery facility utilizing Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT). The state-of-the-art waste-to-solid fuel plant will be located at 870 Grapevine Road, Martinsburg, WV and is expected to be operational in early 2017. Entsorga WV is a joint venture between Apple Valley Waste Technologies, […]
In Germany, UFOP advises that prices of soybean meal and rapeseed meal recovered at the end of December 2015, after downward for several months. However, pressure continues to be large. At the beginning December 2015, overabundant supply and slack demand sent oilseed meal prices on the cash market skidding to a four-year low. Rapeseed meal […]
The Governors’ Biofuels Coalition announced that Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will become chairman and Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts will become vice chairman of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition this year. Now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued its final biofuel blending rule, the Coalition will continue to advocate for policies that grow the biofuel […]
In the Netherlands, Reverdia and BioAmber have inked a non-assert agreement concerning Reverdia’s Biosuccinium technology. BioAmber Inc. and Reverdia are both involved in the production and commercialization of bio-based succinic acid using their own unique proprietary yeast-based technologies. Pursuant to the key provisions of this agreement, BioAmber will benefit from non-assertion covenants with respect to […]
In Iowa, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, campaigning in Iowa for the Republican presidential nomination wrote an Op-Ed outlining a new tone and position on ethanol and the RFS. For the first time, at a campaign stop in Iowa, Cruz expressed he would keep the RFS through 2022. “We are encouraged that Ted Cruz is finally […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, shed 0.28 percent to 49.81 as advanced bioequities dipped. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) rebounded 4.11 percent to $2.35, while Abengoa (ABGB) rallied 10.91 percent to $1.22. Among other equities, BioAmber (BIOA) fell 5.41 percent to $5.94. Overall, declines led advances by a […]
