Category: 5-Minute Guide

SG Biofuels: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

SG Biofuels: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 17, 2012 |

Address:  11260 El Camino Real, Suite O, San Diego, CA 92130 Company description: SG Biofuels is a bioenergy crop company using molecular breeding and biotechnology to develop elite, hybrid seeds of Jatropha.  The company has sold more than 250,000 acres of its hybrid Jatropha seed, including orders from two of the top 20 largest energy […]

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New 5-Minute Biofuels Digest Guides to Blue Sugars, Clariant, Direvo, Dyadic, Genera Energy, Lygos

New 5-Minute Biofuels Digest Guides to Blue Sugars, Clariant, Direvo, Dyadic, Genera Energy, Lygos

December 5, 2012 |

Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]

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Blue Sugars: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Blue Sugars: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 5, 2012 |

Locations: Rapid City – SD and Upton – WY, United States São Paulo – SP, Brazil Company description: Converting sugarcane bagasse into lignin Blue Sugars is now commercializing its process technology to companies in the global sugarcane industry. In April 2012, Blue Sugars licensed its technology to Petrobras SA, Brazil’s largest company and one of […]

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Clariant: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Clariant: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 5, 2012 |

Address: Biotech & Renewables Center, Staffelseestr. 6, 81477 München, Germany Year Founded: 1995 Annual Revenues: CHF 7.4 billion (2011) Company description: Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company, based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide and employed 22 149 employees on December 31, 2011. In the financial year 2011, […]

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

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

December 5, 2012 |

Address: Nattermannallee 1, 50982 Cologne, Germany Year Founded: 2008 Annual Revenues: 2.0 M Euro Company description:  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 […]

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Dyadic: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Dyadic: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 5, 2012 |

Company description: Dyadic International, Inc. is a global biotechnology company that uses its patented and proprietary technologies to conduct research, development and commercial activities for the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of products and solutions for the bioenergy, industrial enzyme and biopharmaceutical industries. Address: 140 Intracoastal Pointe Drive Suite 404 Jupiter, Florida 33477 Year founded: […]

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Genera Energy: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Genera Energy: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 5, 2012 |

Company description:   Genera Energy is a for-profit limited liability company wholly owned by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. Genera provides a vehicle to leverage state and federal funding with private research and development investments, strategic partnerships and collaborations to further research, economic development and clean energy objectives. Genera is focused on developing integrated […]

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Lygos: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Lygos: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

December 5, 2012 |

Address: 2929 7th Street, Suite 120 Berkeley, CA  94710 Year Founded: 2011 Company description: Lygos develops high-efficiency, novel processes to produce renewable chemicals by using our expertise in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Lygos is a spin-off from the lab of Professor Jay Keasling, Director of the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, CA Major Investors: […]

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5-Minute Guides to Aurora Algae, Phycal: new from Biofuels Digest

5-Minute Guides to Aurora Algae, Phycal: new from Biofuels Digest

November 26, 2012 |

Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]

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Phycal: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

Phycal: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

November 26, 2012 |

  Address: 51 Alpha Park, Highland Heights, OH 44143 Year founded: 2007 Type of technology: Phycal is developing an integrated production system based on its patent pending technologies for growing algae and extracting energy products, primarily algal oil.  Phycal is focused on delivering energy products at a market-competitive price. Algal oil can be converted into […]

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