In Florida, early voting totals were released today for 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, representing roughly 20% of the overall vote expected. The Digest noted some early voting trends. 1. These are “early precincts” reporting — not yet including the 50% of votes from the invited internatinoal selectors, PhotoVotes, and the final 6 weeks […]
Rubio takes lead in delegate counts; Sanders ties with Clinton. Trump, Carson, Clinton continue to lead polls by wide margin. In the Digest’s Mirror US Presidential Election, focused on bioeconomy voters in the weeks leading up to the actual Iowa Caucuses, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary and the Washington state caucuses, while Marco […]
By Marcel van Berkel, Chief Commercial Officer, GFBiochemicals, special to The Digest There is a clear and growing need for new chemical building blocks. As the world readies for COP 21 in Paris, this is more evident than ever before. Civil society, policymakers and industry are all demanding new solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, was flat at 53.69 despite Abengoa’s reorganization woes. For the day, Abengoa (ABGB) plummeted 25.75 percent to $1.73, while Metabolix (MBLX) advanced 10.57 percent to $2.16. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) dumped 6.02 percent to $1.56. Overall, declines led advances by a 8 […]
In Ohio, Velocys completed of pilot plant tests that demonstrate that continuous improvements over the last 18 months have resulted in a greater than 50% increase in capacity, without changing the commercial catalyst formulation or the reactor design. Results from the pilot also proves, the company said, that “carbon monoxide conversions of 70% per pass, […]
In Germany, UFOP advises The Digest that prices of soybean meal have dwindled considerably, noting that “nearby material is currently down almost one fifth from the July 2015 figure. Downward pressure on prices came, first and foremost, from weak US reference prices for soybean meal and sluggish demand.” UFOP adds that Chicago prices for soybean […]
In Maryland, The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent number 9,193,979 for ethanol-tolerant microorganisms that convert cellulosic biomass to ethanol. The patent describes using the microorganisms to produce ethanol from crop or waste biomass like food waste, crop residues (e.g. corn stalks), algae, or leaves. In contrast to most current biochemical methods to produce […]
In Iowa, Sen. Marco Rubio speaking about the Renewable Fuel Standard in Council Bluffs Iowa, said “Whether you like it or not, it isn’t fair to yank away something in the middle of it, after people have invested in it based on an existing government program. So, what I have argued is since it is […]
In Colorado, Living Ink Technologies is releasing the world’s first time-lapse ink on Kickstarter this week. Living Ink is a patent-pending time-lapse ink that grows when exposed to light, based on sustainable algae. “Imagine receiving a greeting card in the mail that says, “Happy Birthday” and the next day a cake appears, and on the […]
In Quebec, Enerkem WAS selected by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, France’s national institute for the protection of intellectual property or INPI, to take part in Solutions COP21, a major public event featuring innovative solutions put forward by some sixty companies from around the world to fight […]
