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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Policy and Schmidt Futures

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Policy and Schmidt Futures

April 3, 2023 |

AgGrid Energy is one of our most admired biogas project developers, and is on a rapid expansion curve as many of the best biogas companies are right now. Rashi Akki gave this overview of the company’s promise and progress, milestones achieved and ahead, at ABLC 2023.

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BioConnect Iowa: Empowering Iowa’s Next Wave of Entrepreneurs

BioConnect Iowa: Empowering Iowa’s Next Wave of Entrepreneurs

April 3, 2023 |

Iowa’s well-earned reputation as a bioscience powerhouse stems from the state’s unwavering commitment to innovation and collaboration. Organizations such as BioConnect Iowa, in partnership with the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA), fuel this legacy by helping aspiring entrepreneurs transform bold ideas into successful endeavors through mentorship opportunities and access to helpful resources. With deep Iowan […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the ABLC Due Diligence Wolfpack

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the ABLC Due Diligence Wolfpack

March 30, 2023 |

The famed Wolfpack tore into carbon capture and sequestration technology at ABLC 2023 and here are the public overview slides for the lambs and lions that strode into the Octagon to be examined for value by the Due Diligence Wolves. Hy-Tek Bio, SkyNano, Summit Carbon, Carnon Engineering and CarbonBuilt.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Marquis

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Marquis

March 29, 2023 |

Marquis has become the first well known ethanol producer to step into the world of ethanol-to-jet in a partnership with LanzaJet. The promise and progress, milestones achieved and ahead, were presented by Marquis’ Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim at ABLC 2023.

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Habemus Feedstock?
 The Conclave gathers: The pursuit of circular feedstocks for 
renewable chemicals and materials

Habemus Feedstock?
 The Conclave gathers: The pursuit of circular feedstocks for 
renewable chemicals and materials

March 29, 2023 |

Today, a tale of the pistachio tree, or rather its cousin in the pistachia family. the terebinth — and therein lies a bioeconomy yarn that will take us from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary La Jolla, California, where several dozens of the bioeconomy’s best and brightest are conclaved this week to solve big problems. If you’ve […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to BioVeritas

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to BioVeritas

March 29, 2023 |

BioVeritas uses some of the same technology with different market goals as the famed Terrabon of days gone by — carboxylic acids made from waste biomass, with fuel precursors and a slew of interesting renewable chemical precursors among the products that the technology can produce. CEO Dave Austgen gave this overview of the company’s promise […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

March 27, 2023 |

AgGrid Energy is one of our most admired biogas project developers, and is on a rapid expansion curve as many of the best biogas companies are right now.  Rashi Akki gave this overview of the company’s promise and progress, milestones achieved and ahead, at ABLC 2023.

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Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: The African Bio-Economy Story

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: The African Bio-Economy Story

March 27, 2023 |

By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” and Gerard J. Ostheimer, PhD Special to the Digest With a nod to the Oscar winning movie of the same name, we want to convey a sense of where the African Bioeconomy is now, where it could be headed, and what is needed for vibrant, enduring growth. The […]

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Protected: ABLC 2023 Presentations

Protected: ABLC 2023 Presentations

March 27, 2023 |

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Heard on the Floor at ABLC

Heard on the Floor at ABLC

March 26, 2023 |

“We’re out of time”. Everyone’s heard the phrase, perhaps most recently in the third act of the motion picture Passengers. But I hadn’t heard it from Charlie Wyman, the legendary NREL researchers, AAAS Fellow, co-founder of Mascoma, and one of the fathers of consolidated bioprocessing, until ABLC. The subject was deployment vs development, whether we […]

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