Category: 5-Minute Guide

Enerkem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

Enerkem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Enerkem Address: 1130 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 1500 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2M8, Canada Year Founded: 2000 Annual Revenues: undisclosed – private company Company description: Enerkem develops biofuels and chemicals from waste. With its proprietary thermochemical technology, Enerkem converts abundantly available municipal solid waste (mixed textiles, plastics, fibers, wood and other non-recyclable waste materials) into chemical-grade […]

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Novozymes: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

Novozymes: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Company description: Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries we create tomorrow’s industrial biosolutions, improving our customers’ business, and the use of our planet’s resources. With over 700 products used in 130 countries, Novozymes’ bioinnovations improve industrial performance and safeguard the world’s resources by offering superior […]

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LS9: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

LS9: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Address: 600 Gateway Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080 Year founded 2005 Company description: LS9, Inc. is a technology leader in the commercial development of a growing portfolio of sustainable products to meet the needs of established and expanding chemical and fuel markets worldwide. Utilizing a simple, efficient, flexible, cost-effective technology platform, LS9 has created […]

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POET: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

POET: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Address: 4615 N. Lewis Ave., Sioux Falls, S.D. 57104 Year founded 1987 Company description: POET, the largest ethanol producer in the world, is a leader in biorefining through its efficient, vertically integrated approach to production. The 23-year-old company produces more than 1.7 billion gallons of ethanol and 10 billion pounds of high-protein animal feed annually […]

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Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Based in: 345 Inverness Dr. South; Bldg. C; Suite 345, Englewood, CO 80112 Year founded: 2005 Technology: Gevo has two proprietary technologies that combine to make it possible to retrofit existing ethanol plants to produce isobutanol, a four carbon alcohol which serves as a hydrocarbon platform molecule. We have developed a robust industrial scale yeast […]

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Amyris: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

Amyris: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Address: 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA Year founded 2003 Company description: Amyris is an integrated renewable chemicals and fuels company founded in 2003 and based in Emeryville, CA, with additional operations in Chicago, IL and Campinas, Brazil. Amyris has over 400 employees, with three-quarters of its employees located in the United States. Amyris subsidiaries include […]

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Solazyme: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

Solazyme: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)

January 8, 2013 |

Address: 225 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Year founded 2003 Company description: Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s renewable products can replace or enhance oils derived from the world’s three existing sources – […]

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Altranex: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Altranex: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 17, 2012 |

Altranex Address: 5200 Finch St. East, Suite 210, Toronto, ON M1S 4Z4 Canada Year Founded: 2010 Company description:  Biodiesel, as it is produced today does not work in cold weather.  Below 50F (10C), biodiesel begins to solidify rendering engines inoperable in cold weather. Small quantities of biodiesel (up to 5%) can be blended with petro-diesel […]

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Muradel: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Muradel: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 17, 2012 |

Address: 239 Magill Rd, Adelaide, Australia Year Founded: 2010 Company description: Algae biofuels technology development Major Investors Muradel Pty Ltd was incorporated in December 2010 as a joint venture between Murdoch University, Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd and SQC Pty Ltd. Muradel’s technology development is supported by Australia’s leading algae science from Murdoch University […]

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Oxford Catalysts Group, Velocys: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Oxford Catalysts Group, Velocys: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 17, 2012 |

Company description:   (includes Oxford Catalysts Ltd, based near Oxford, UK and Velocys, Inc., based in Plain City, Ohio). The Oxford Catalyst Group Develops of catalysts and microchannel reactor technology for the generation of clean fuels from both conventional fossil fuels and biomass Address:  115e Milton Park, Oxford OX14 4RZ, UK Year founded: 2001: Velocys, Inc. […]

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