Category: 5-Minute Guide

DuPont Industrial Biosciences: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

DuPont Industrial Biosciences: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 17, 2014 |

Two years ago, DuPont purchased Danisco and its Genencor unit and added their expertise into a new unit: DuPont Industrial Biosciences. This integration allows us to optimize DuPont’s bioscience technology and commercialization capabilities with Genencor’s biofuel enzyme technology. DuPont is committed to being a part of the solution to develop renewably sourced biofuels. For close […]

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Fulcrum BioEnergy: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Fulcrum BioEnergy: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 17, 2014 |

Fulcrum design, develop, own and will operate facilities that convert sorted, post-recycled municipal solid waste, or MSW, into ethanol. Fulcrum have entered into long-term, fixed, zero-cost MSW feedstock agreements which will provide us with a significant competitive advantage over companies using alternative feedstocks for the production of biofuel. their proprietary process, built around numerous commercial […]

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Joule Unlimited: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Joule Unlimited: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 13, 2014 |

Joule is advancing a production platform for Liquid Fuel from the Sun™, expected to eclipse the scale, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today. Its transformative Helioculture platform directly and continuously converts sunlight and waste CO2 to infrastructure-ready diesel, ethanol or commodity chemicals with no dependence on biomass feedstocks, downstream […]

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Direvo Industrial Biotechnology: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Direvo Industrial Biotechnology: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 13, 2014 |

Direvo, focuses on the emerging biomass conversion industry, identifying bottlenecks and weaknesses in current industrial processes in this sector. The company develops biology-based solutions and implement those for our partners and customers, which include industrial companies both large and small The Situation Last March, Direvo Industrial Biotechnology announced that it reached an important milestone in […]

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Ceres: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Ceres: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 12, 2014 |

Ceres develops & markets low-carbon, non-food grasses for advanced biofuels and biopower. Our energy crops can provide more fuel or electricity, new opportunities for growers and a cleaner environment for us all. Using advanced plant breeding and biotechnology, Ceres is developing dedicated energy crops as raw materials for renewable transportation fuels, electricity and bio-based products. […]

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Mascoma: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Mascoma: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 12, 2014 |

Using a proprietary consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, technology platform, Mascoma has developed genetically-modified yeasts and other microorganisms to reduce costs and improve yields in the production of renewable fuels and chemicals. The CBP platform utilizes genetically modified yeast and bacteria to convert cellulosic biomass into high-value end-products in a single step that combines hydrolysis and […]

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Cobalt Technologies: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Cobalt Technologies: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 11, 2014 |

Cobalt Technologies is commercializing cellulosic biobutanol, a versatile platform molecule for the renewable chemicals and fuels. The Company’s technology efficiently converts diverse non-food feedstocks – initially, lignocellulosic extracts from woody biomass and sugar cane bagasse – into biobutanol. Cobalt will offer complete systems for sugar mill, pulp and paper, and biomass power facility retrofits with […]

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Applied Biorefinery Sciences: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Applied Biorefinery Sciences: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 10, 2014 |

Applied Biorefinery Sciences was created in 2008 to commercialize biorefinery technology that is distinctly different from enzymatic (bio-chemical) and gasification (thermo-chemical) processes that destroy or discard chemical intermediaries generally in favor of a single target product. The ABS process offers potential to overcome biorefinery economic viability impediments through process simplicity, high energy efficiency, and co-production […]

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Myriant: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Myriant: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 10, 2014 |

Myriant is building a global renewable chemicals company. Our innovative technology platform produces “green” chemicals from renewable feedstocks that are cost competitive without requiring a green premium. These green chemicals “drop-in” to chemical manufacturing processes to displace chemicals derived from petroleum. We are developing and selling bio-chemical intermediates that provide us with access to established […]

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NAES: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

NAES: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 9, 2014 |

NAES is a multi-national services company providing independent, third-party operations and maintenance (O&M), engineering and technical, maintenance and construction, and business advisory services for a broad range of customers in the power, refining, process, and renewable energy markets (including fuels and chemicals).  Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, NAES was founded in 1980 and today exceeds 2,700 […]

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