Category: Top Stories

Porsche hemp race car, cigarette butt bricks, biobased boo-boo bandages, flax phone cases, bursting balloon bubbles, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 16th

Porsche hemp race car, cigarette butt bricks, biobased boo-boo bandages, flax phone cases, bursting balloon bubbles, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 16th

January 15, 2019 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of January 16th. In today’s Digest, Porsche hemp race car, cigarette butt bricks, biobased boo-boo bandages, flax phone cases, bursting balloon bubbles — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. #1 […]

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Carbon, concrete, cotton – BASF has it covered

Carbon, concrete, cotton – BASF has it covered

January 13, 2019 |

In Germany, BASF is off to a roaring start with its pursuit of ambitious goals and announcements of new innovations. They launched four groundbreaking projects for CO2-reduced future production processes. They advanced five new cottonseed varieties, including dicamba-tolerant varieties for enhanced weed control. They presented novel high-performance insulation in their first carbon concrete composite facade […]

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Don’t Mess with my Toot Toot: The Zydeco of Xyleco

Don’t Mess with my Toot Toot: The Zydeco of Xyleco

January 9, 2019 |

Some 35 years ago, Rockin’ Sidney burst out into the music charts with an upbeat, cryptic, fast-tempo‘d hit called Don’t Mess with My Toot Toot, that represented perhaps the last appearance of a  accordion carrying hr lead melody in a hit song, and had music fans all the world over trying to figure out a […]

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Christmas trees to paint and sweeteners, newly discovered protein, hemp beard oils, potato waste fiberboard, biobased outdoor apparel and cosmetics, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 10th

Christmas trees to paint and sweeteners, newly discovered protein, hemp beard oils, potato waste fiberboard, biobased outdoor apparel and cosmetics, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 10th

January 9, 2019 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of January 10th. In today’s Digest, Christmas trees to paint and sweeteners, newly discovered protein, hemp beard oils, potato waste fiberboard, biobased outdoor apparel and cosmetics — these and more, ready for you now at […]

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Top 10 Bioeconomy Markets and Predictions for 2019

Top 10 Bioeconomy Markets and Predictions for 2019

January 7, 2019 |

A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we sail into 2019? Not the good ship Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and offer our predictions for the year ahead. As the sunset of 2018 gives way to the dawn of 2019, once again roll the dice as we list the Digest’s 10 Top […]

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Seed, soil, science, sex…Semios

Seed, soil, science, sex…Semios

January 6, 2019 |

It’s at the start of a slew of biofuels, biomaterials, and biobased products. You can say it’s the spark of light that starts it all. The big bang. The origination point. The beginning of life. With the hype of new technologies, the hottest innovations, fast-changing times, we forget sometimes that it often starts with a […]

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3D printing lignin, potato postal sleeves, alginate sausage casing, tree to textiles, chemical recycling and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 2nd

3D printing lignin, potato postal sleeves, alginate sausage casing, tree to textiles, chemical recycling and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 2nd

January 2, 2019 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of January 2nd. In today’s Digest, 3D printing lignin, potato postal sleeves, alginate sausage casing, tree to textiles, chemical recycling — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. #1 Oak Ridge […]

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Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2019

Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2019

January 1, 2019 |

In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 65 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) once specified a 10 percent renewable content by 2020 but has been […]

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As industry copes with information overload, organizations report “much more of our story to share” but marketing, messaging is under-resourced

As industry copes with information overload, organizations report “much more of our story to share” but marketing, messaging is under-resourced

December 31, 2018 |

71% of industry executives believe that for their organizations, there is much more of their story to get out than they are successful in doing so far, but struggle to allocate resources to building and maintaining attention though 80% believe that establishing and hitting awareness goals is important to their company’s success. One of the […]

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Top 18 of 2018 – Looking back to look forward

Top 18 of 2018 – Looking back to look forward

December 29, 2018 |

Sometimes we need to look back in order to move forward. So on this last day of 2018, join the Biofuels Digest in looking back at our most visited and popular stories of 2018. March 6th was a big day for The Digest with the most visits on that day when people from all over […]

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