Category: Top Stories

Raised & Rooted alt protein, African iron superfood, biological biocide, digital agronomic tools, CO2 munching microbe, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 4th

In the U.S., it’s Independence Day and many folks are celebrating across the country, but it doesn’t mean the bioeconomy is taking a break. In fact, bioeconomy innovations, much like hamburgers and hot dogs across America, are getting hot, hot, hot! Here are the top innovations for the week of July 4th – from slow-release […]

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Decision 2020 Bioeconomy – 25 declared presidential candidates and how they stand on the bioeconomy

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Oh my! Dan’s back: AgCertain Industries acquires KemX Global

For some time, many have been uncertain as to what direction former REG CEO Dan Oh would take in developing a new entry into the fast-growing bioeconomy, but now we can be certain, or rather, AgCertain. News has filtered out of Iowa that Oh’s new company, AgCertain Industries has acquired KemX Global. AgCertain is now […]

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Food security gets a boost: Calysta gets $30M from BP for protein-based animal feed from natural gas

From Menlo Park, California comes big news that alternative protein producer Calysta got a hefty $30 million investment from BP Ventures to support a worldwide rollout of Calysta’s FeedKind protein. Touted as a huge step forward in global food security, Calysta’s sustainable single-cell protein is produced through a proprietary, commercially-validated gas fermentation process using naturally […]

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The Competitive Edge: Carbiolice

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Carbiolice is a joint-venture established in 2016 that is based on the shared and complementary ambitions of Carbios, a green […]

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Enerkem co-founder Vincent Chornet dies at 45

In Canada, Enerkem announced the death of co-founder and long-time CEO Vincent Chornet following a prolonged illness. He was 45. The company noted, “faithful to himself, he fought this terrible disease with the passion and determination that we know him for. He has been active even in the last moments, exchanging emails last week with […]

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Letter from Route 12 and the Pacific Northwest: from waste streams, a bioeconomy rising

In Washington state, there’s a new mill near the city of Dayton that is the first to use waste straw to make pulp for paper products, and biopolymers; and, a new project near Granger turning dairy waste into pipeline-quality renewable natural gas; also, a proposed project for Cosmopolis using sulfite pulp waste liquor to make […]

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Letter from Europe: The Bioeconomy’s Journey to Yes through the Valley of No

In Europe this past week we’ve had European Commission’s own and massive EU Sustainability Week, the ART Fuels Forum, and the Paris Air Show, and if you were trying to get anywhere quickly along the Paris-Brussels corridor, it was a tough 7 days. It’s easy to describe the atmosphere as “electric” since much of the […]

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SAF taking off in Brazil with Boeing, RSB, WWF collaboration

Boeing announced a big bucks $1 million investment into the Brazilian bioeconomy, working with WWF and RSB. But these three amigos aren’t big cowboy movie stars from the silent era, but like the comedic Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short, these three powerhouses realize that working together gets a heck of a lot more done than working […]

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The Competitive Edge: Mercurius Biorefining

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Mercurius Biorefining, Inc. was established to produce profitable drop-in fuel (Diesel and Jet Fuel) from nonfood biomass feedstocks. Mercurius is […]

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