Category: 5-Minute Guide

Fiberight: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Fiberight: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

May 6, 2015 |

Fiberight is a privately held company founded in 2007 with current operations in Virginia, Maryland and Iowa. The company focuses on transforming post-recycled municipal solid wastes and other organic feedstocks into next generation renewable biofuels, with cellulosic ethanol and renewable compressed natural gas as core products. Pilot plant facilities have been on-going during 2008-2009. In […]

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Renmatix acquires Mascoma demonstration plant in New York

Renmatix acquires Mascoma demonstration plant in New York

May 5, 2015 |

Another step towards commercial scale, aimed at “secure supply” of cellulose-lignin solids for Renmatix’ Georgia facility Renmatix announced that it has acquired existing assets of the former Mascoma corporation’s 56,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Rome, NY. The new Feedstock Processing Facility (FPF) is dedicated to the first step in conversion to cellulosic sugar (from […]

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Global Bioenergies: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Global Bioenergies: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

May 5, 2015 |

Global Bioenergies is a pioneer in the development of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons, the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Since inception, the company focused its efforts on the production of isobutene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks that can […]

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Applied Research Associates: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Applied Research Associates: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

May 4, 2015 |

Applied Research Associates (ARA) is an international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically excellent solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. Our mission is to provide in-depth and diversified research, engineering, and technical support services. We have a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil engineering, computer software […]

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Direvo Industrial Biotechnology: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Direvo Industrial Biotechnology: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

May 3, 2015 |

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. Direvo is developing a portfolio of BluZy products targeting process efficiency, yield and co-product quality. […]

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Altranex: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Altranex: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 30, 2015 |

Altranex process technology biofuels have key features that enable them to meet the growing demand for renewable fuel: As drop-in replacements for existing petroleum-based fuels, Altranex fuels work with existing fueling infrastructure and don’t require any change to engines. Altranex fuels use a variety of waste and virgin biological feedstock. The use of low-cost feedstock […]

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UPM: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

UPM: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 29, 2015 |

As a frontrunner of the new forest industry UPM “leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future.” UPM’s structure consists of the following business areas: UPM Biorefining, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Paper Asia, UPM Paper ENA (Europe and North America) and UPM Plywood. UPM uses fibre and […]

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Rennovia: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Rennovia: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 28, 2015 |

Rennovia, Inc. is a chemical process technology development company focused on the creation of novel processes for the cost-advantaged production of commodity and specialty chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Rennovia is developing processes for the production of biobased glucaric acid, adipic acid, 1,6-hexanediol, hexamethylenediamine (HMD), and other important building blocks for a wide range of functional […]

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BIOeCON: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

BIOeCON: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 26, 2015 |

BIOeCON is a Dutch start-up R&D Company, founded in 2005, with the vision and goal of developing cost-effective technologies to convert lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and/or chemicals. Within 5 years BIOeCON invented and patented 2 novel breakthrough technologies: Biomass Catalytic Cracking (BCC) a gas phase catalytic pyrolysis process which is the basis for the KiOR […]

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Cargill: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Cargill: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

April 23, 2015 |

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the privately held company employs 140,000 people in 65 countries, Cargill is one of the world’s largest privately-held companies, in biofuels Cargill is a producer, and has developed a comprehensive package of services and tools from capital […]

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