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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies

August 2, 2022 |

This hydrocarbons firm has for the sake of higher margins to support smaller build-outs to profitability has pivoted to  converting plant-derived resources into a key family of ingredients used in the cosmetics industry — a new presentation covers the new targets — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt

August 1, 2022 |

One of the bioeconomy’s most updated company strategies — now, a updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — launch-stage, growth-stage, maturity and end of life.

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The NEXT Store:  What’s arriving and important in Chemicals, Materials, Health & Nutrition?

The NEXT Store:  What’s arriving and important in Chemicals, Materials, Health & Nutrition?

July 31, 2022 |

This week in the bioeconomy, we see three trends advancing fast. First of all, sustainable materials, there are two hot stories this week involving sneakers, also there’s a carbon black deal between Origin and Intertex that is hot on the radar. On the nutrition front, interesting to see a first product from sugars-to-lipids technology, something […]

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Gevo’s Jet Bet Bonanza: a series of SAF offtake stunners from Denver’s biofuels broncos

Gevo’s Jet Bet Bonanza: a series of SAF offtake stunners from Denver’s biofuels broncos

July 31, 2022 |

This week we received the long-anticipated news that Gevo closed on the purchase of approximately 245 acres near Lake Preston, South Dakota for its first commercial scale sustainable aviation fuel facility, Net-Zero 1. The site was optioned for purchase by Gevo in December of 2020, and now groundbreaking is expected in September 2022. This project […]

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Beast Mode Yeast Load: Novozyme’s new Innova Apex, Turbo are ethanol yield monsters

Beast Mode Yeast Load: Novozyme’s new Innova Apex, Turbo are ethanol yield monsters

July 31, 2022 |

News has emerged in the sector which should be known as Medieval Combat and yet is politely described as yeast fermentation that Novozymes’ new Innova Apex and Innova Turbo have arrived on the Innova yeast platform. They are companions to Innova Quantum. Usually, advances in yeast are told in terms of yield, but here’s an […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Corteva

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Corteva

July 28, 2022 |

A spin-out from the old Dupont, this is the AgTech company, the seed monster, and here’s the updated presentation now out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — from a feedstock outlook to the future of yield.

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#Welcome To EartH2, with NextChem: The Digest’s Multi Slide Guide to Green and low carbon hydrogen

#Welcome To EartH2, with NextChem: The Digest’s Multi Slide Guide to Green and low carbon hydrogen

July 28, 2022 |

The world is short on hydrogen for all its ambitions in renewable energy and transformative chemivcals and materials — and especially in green and low carbon hydrogen. Fortunately, new technology and carbon strategies have emerged to meet the market opportunity, and we looked into the topic in a Digest Webinar.  We were  fortunate to be […]

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What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act — for renewable fuels?

What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act — for renewable fuels?

July 28, 2022 |

The Ultraviolets (by which I mean the left side of the political spectrum) and some enthusiasts for renewables that come from other parts of the politcal spectrum are rejoicing over news that Senators Schumer and Manchin reached an agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act. President Biden said, “With this agreement, we will improve our energy security and […]

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Infinium and electrofuels: They Might Be Giants

Infinium and electrofuels: They Might Be Giants

July 28, 2022 |

The late, great Ron Cascone of NEXANT and the Due Diligence Wolfpack observed in The Daily Digest in 2018, “Major players in the fuels and chemicals industries have begun serious development of [new] processes that produce intermediates and finished products from carbon dioxide. One of the most interesting areas is in the many developments that […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Beyond Meat

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Beyond Meat

July 27, 2022 |

One of the bioeconomy’s newest stars that has gone through a tremendous expansion into new markets from wholesale to retail, here’s the latest — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — launch-stage, growth-stage, maturity and end of life.

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