The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, slipped 0.45 percent to 53.14 as chemicals declined. For the day, Evogene (EVGN) dumped 6.96 percent to $6.55, while Metabolix (MBLX) lost 6.43 percent to $1.96. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) rebounded 5.56 percent to $1.52. Overall, advances led declines by a 5 […]
A reader asks a fundamental question worth investigating. The Digest looks at how it all shakes out, value-wise. A question from the Digesterati: “Since biomass is ~40% oxygen and the principle of green chemistry is atom conservation, how will we achieve $3/gge biofuel as drop-in hydrocarbon without using all of the oxygen? Yield from biomass to […]
Avoid your enemy’s strength, and attack his weakness, said Sun Tzu. Thereby, we consider the problem of the RIN. The US Environmental Protection Agency has discovered the following way of interpreting Energy Independence and Security Act. To wit, if the transportation fuels supply chain — controlled by guess whom — does not build renewable fuel infrastructure, which […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for the week in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Amyris, REG, LanzaTech and Stora Enso took home double votes this week, as photo judging was suspended during ABLC NEXT. Voting continues through January 15th, 2016 at 5pm ET. With the Hot 40 at a […]
In Florida, The Digest made made available for free, global streaming its LanzaTech coverage from ABLC NEXT 2015. The LanzaTech presentation can be accessed here, and is enhanced with commentary from the BioChannel.TV commentary team, including Digest editor Jim Lane and former DOE Biomass Program manager Dr. Paul Bryan. The coverage also includes clips from […]
In Washington, Senators Stabenow (D-MI), Coons (D-DE) and Franken (D-MN) have introduced S. 2271, the Renewable Chemicals Act of 2015, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credits for the production of renewable chemicals and investments in renewable chemical production facilities. S. 2271 would create a targeted, short-term tax credit of […]
In Nebraska, the Association of Nebraska Ethanol Producers announced Mark Palmer as its new executive director beginning January 1, 2016. Palmer comes to Nebraska from the Washington, D.C. office of Senator Dick Durbin (Ill.). In addition to his work as a senior policy advisor to Sen. Durbin, Palmer has worked to promote biofuels for the […]
In South Dakota, POET founder Jeff Broin has resumed his role as the company’s CEO after stepping into the Executive Chairman role for the last three and one-half years. Jeff Lautt has been CEO and will continue to manage the day-to-day operations of POET as President and COO. Broin stressed the success of POET under […]
In Oregon, Pacific Ag completed its largest harvest of wheat straw on record. Working closely with more than 200 growers across seven states including Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington, Pacific Ag harvested more than 100,000 acres of wheat straw for use in end-markets including bioenergy, dairies, feedlots, mushroom compost production […]
In Europe, the European Bioplastics trade group projected that worldwide production capacity of bio-based polymer will triple from 5.7 million tonnes in 2014 to nearly 17 million tonnes in 2020. The data show a 10% growth rate from 2012 to 2013 and even 11% from 2013 to 2014. However, growth rate is expected to decrease […]
