Category: Top Stories

Frito-Lay biopackaging, Braskem, Sojitz biobased MEG & PET plants, seaweed innovations, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 1st

March 31, 2022 | admin

It’s quite a mish-mash in this week’s Top 8 Innovations starting with Frito-Lay’s biobased packaging that will also be quieter than the original packaging making it easier than ever to sneak those snacks in at the movies or for those midnight munchies. Then we’ve got seaweed-based tampons, repurposed coffee ground oils for personal care products, […]

REG unveils EnDura branded fuels suite in bid to shake-up heavy-duty transport

March 30, 2022 | Jim Lane

In Iowa, Renewable Energy Group introduced its EnDura Fuels line of renewable fuels solutions. This branded product launch supports Renewable Energy Group’s ongoing efforts to help the transport industry meet its sustainability and business growth objectives, while strengthening the Company’s position in the marketplace. The EnDura Fuels line consists of five bio-based diesel fuels including […]

Reap, Baby, Reap – Agriculture’s opportunity to rebuild a nation

March 29, 2022 | Jim Lane

It has been a long winter in the bioeconomy, companies and technologies laboring to convert promise into production, and unlock agricultural surplus to make sustainable energy and materials. Now the bioeconomy’s hour has arrived. Perhaps it was COVID, when biotechnology produced vaccines in record time. Perhaps it was the supply-chain crisis that come with […]

Alien Energy: Unlocking the potential of invasive plants in South Africa

March 28, 2022 | Jim Lane

By Arianna Baldo, Programme Director, RSB and Tjaša Bole-Rentel, Bioenergy Programme Manager, WWF South Africa Special to The Digest Invasive alien plants (IAPs) are a scourge across Southern Africa – with species like black wattle and port jackson found across the region. It is estimated that more than 10% of South Africa’s land mass is […]

Aemetis and Finnair sign SAF agreement for 17.5M gallons in $70M deal

March 27, 2022 | admin

People in Finland are ranked as the happiest people in the world for the 5th year in a row according to the World Happiness Report, a publication of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network that draws on global survey data from people in about 150 countries. Maybe that’s because the national air carrier of Finland, […]

Competitive Edge: AlgEternal Technologies, LLC

March 24, 2022 | Jim Lane

Q: Tell us about your organization. What do you do? The world desperately needs an alternative to fossil hydrocarbons. AlgEternal (www.algeternal.com) solves this problem by growing microalgae at scale faster, more reliably, cleaner and at a lower cost for use as alternative feedstock in multiple products and for carbon capture, water treatment, and soil rejuvenation. […]

Honey without the bee, greener circuit boards, plant-based asphalt, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 24th

March 23, 2022 | admin

We’ve reported on beef without the cows, pork without the pig, dairy without the cow and now we have honey without the bee from California start-up MeliBio which raised $7.5 million to scale and commercialize its precision fermentation and plant science and tech to manufacture honey. In today’s Digest, we also have Texas-based Dell exploring […]

Gevo’s $8 Billion Dollar Day

March 22, 2022 | Jim Lane

As the industry exits ABLC and returns to the day-to-day of transforming the world’s industrial base to a sustainable future, news arrives from Colorado that Gevo signed $8.1 billion in deals yesterday. Yes, one day. The Delta deal: $2.8 billion Gevo signed a “take-or-pay” agreement with Delta Air Lines to supply 75 million gallons of […]

The Comment that Silenced the Crowd: Heard on the Floor at ABLC 2022

March 21, 2022 | Jim Lane

The din of 700 people dealmaking could not drown out the dialogue heard on the ABLC 2022 floor, which went something like this. Buyer: You sit here, friend. Colleague: All right. Buyer: (to Seller) Morning! Seller: Morning! Buyer: Well, what’ve you got? Seller: There’s meat without the cow, milk without the cow, renewable diesel, and […]

LanzaTech, ReCarbon, Woodside team up on carbon capture and utilization project in Australia

March 20, 2022 | admin

You heard Jennifer Holmgren as a keynote speaker last week at the ABLC in Washington, D.C., and we’ve covered LanzaTech’s going public news with their $2.2 billion SPAC merger, but just in is breaking news that they are collaborating in a new carbon capture and utilization project in Western Australia with ReCarbon and Woodside Energy. […]

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