In Australia and Canada, Licella has entered into a new joint venture with Canadian Forest Products Ltd, usually known as Canfor — the JV is called Arbios Biotech. Arbios will be principally focused on the advanced biofuel sector in the short-to-medium term, reflecting its positive environmental footprint as well as the current market stimulus for […]
By Brian Levine, Executive Vice President, Greasezilla Special to The Digest In the United States, efforts to replace fossil fuels with biofuels are gaining momentum, supported by growing public awareness, government programs and emerging waste-to-fuel technologies. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) analysis of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) projected that several types of biofuels, such […]
This week we have Cynthia Arnold and Trudy Schoolenberg appointed as members of Avantium’s Supervisory Board, Pluton Biosciences gets two new research associates, Dr. Anthony Thevenon joins as Chief Technology Officer for DEMETA’s low carbon resins, a CELLINK Board Member switches to Bioprinting Business Area Manager, and Päivyt Tallqvist is to succeed Arja Suominen as […]
By Mike Newman, Chief Operating Officer, Parhelion Underwriting Inc. Special to The Digest Connecting people from renewable fuels companies with projects they want to finance to the people who can finance them was a key goal for Parhelion Underwriting’s recent virtual roundtable. The finance panel included Justin Goldstein from Goldman Sachs, John May from Hamilton […]
Brightmark and Chevron just formed a joint venture to own projects across the United States to produce and market dairy biomethane. Greenlane Renewables signed a $5.8 million contract with Brightmark. Construction started in Ohio on a $33 million RNG project. Verbio’s RNG facility slated to be running by fall 2021. A new RNG facility is […]
The recent Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates have shown us that everyone has boxing gloves on these days, but now a company has created boxing gloves made from cactus leather instead of the traditional cowhide leather, making your fight a more sustainable and eco-friendlier one. In today’s Digest, lignin-based asphalt is getting a test drive, the […]
In Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the smallest and most powerful scissors ever invented: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Digest readers will easily recognize Doudna for co-founding Caribou Life Sciences (more here) and also serving on […]
In Washington, a coalition of major oil & gas, power, automotive, fuel cell, and hydrogen companies have come together to develop a Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy. In the most ambitious scenario, the authors concluded that hydrogen demand potential across all these applications could reach 17 million metric tons by 2030 and 63 […]
In Louisiana, Renewable Energy Group said it will undertake a capacity expansion of its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery by 250 million gallons annually to 340 million gallons per year. This announcement follows a thorough review and site selection process. Construction should begin in mid to late 2021 with target mechanical completion date in late 2023. The […]
By David B. Fournier, Partner and Firmwide Chair of the Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Counseling Practice at Perkins Coie LLC and Linda Falcon, Associate attorney at Perkins Coie LLC Special to The Digest The global biofuels market size is in excess of $100 billion and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate […]
