This week reeks of fraternity parties with Mark Cuban and others giving a $1.7 million boost to a startup that aims to replace the iconic red Solo cup with a biobased polylactic acid version, a vegan perfume formulated to smell like bacon that sold out in minutes, and a new biobased Bocce ball court turf […]
By William Echt, Technology Licensing Director, and David Jackson, Technology Manager, Merichem Company Special to The Digest Introduction As part of the energy transition and refinery rationalization taking place around the world, many refiners are investigating projects for renewable fuels production (mainly diesel and jet fuel) from sustainable sources such as used cooking oils (UCO), […]
By Elena Schmidt, Executive Director, and Nicola Noponen, Technical Director, RSB Special to The Digest The urgent move away from fossil resources means that biomass use will be heavily incentivised for the use in fuel, energy and material supply chains and this presents serious sustainability risks which must be addressed. RSB’s multi-stakeholder member community has […]
Just in the last few days, it’s been all about low carbon, lower carbon, net-zero carbon – and all of it from waste. Virgin Group and Agilyx’s strategic partnership to produce lower carbon fuel from plastic waste. REG’s state-of-the-art pretreatment facility to refine some of the lowest carbon intensity, hardest to convert waste fats and […]
February is here and already is it looking like SAFbruary — announcements are flying around and the world is gearing up for a major ramp-up in capacity,. Big players with access to affordable capital, too — making the limiting barriers more about affordable feedstock and a drive to squeeze every point out of the Carbon […]
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? OMNI was founded to convert waste to a clean syngas. By diverting waste from landfill and producing a syngas for […]
It was a big week for biobased fashion news with mushroom yoga bags made from Bolt Threads for high-end athleisure brand Lululemon, Hugo Boss investing in cellulosic fiber technology, and the creation of a new plant-based textile fiber organization to start with. In today’s Digest, there also came news about new 3D printed squishy finger […]
It’s only the second month of 2022, but there are already many people on the move from some of The Digest’s Hot 50 companies and leading biofuels and biotech organizations. From a new Chief Commercial Officer at Topsoe, the shifting of Ron Lamberty’s role from SVP and Market Development Director to Chief Marketing Officer at […]
The word is official and it’s Bon Weir, Texas. That’s going to be home to the first commercial advanced renewable fuels project of USA BioEnergy, and various authorities in Texas have put together $150 million in incentives to land the project, in the form of tax abatements. “Our investment in Newton County will exceed $3.4 […]
A Digest editorial “U.S. exports limit price increases and help check disruptive behavior by the likes of Russia and Iran,” says the headline in the Wall Street Journal this evening, from a new column by Dan Yergin. “The shock absorber for averting crisis is “spare capacity,” Yergin writes, “the sum of the potential output from wells […]
