Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with… Edward Huxel, Co-Owner, Osage Orange BioProducts Company

4 minutes with… Edward Huxel, Co-Owner, Osage Orange BioProducts Company

March 17, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Our company theme is to create a profitable company that raises Osage Orange (Maclura promifera)trees on the southern plains of Oklahoma and Texas, and process the tree fruit for nonfood biomass products for renewable energy, biochemicals a livestock feed. The seeds are high in […]

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4 minutes with… Michele Jalbert, Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Chemicals & Advanced Materials Alliance

4 minutes with… Michele Jalbert, Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Chemicals & Advanced Materials Alliance

March 16, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Re:chem is an exceptionally nimble alliance of elite renewable chemical companies led by its passionate advocate, Corinne Young. We advance federal policies laser-focused on the discrete needs of this bioeconomy sub-set. We’ve been described as a “swift boat” operating among the many battleships […]

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4 Minutes with…Franklin S. Abrams, Ph.D., Partner, Springut Law

4 Minutes with…Franklin S. Abrams, Ph.D., Partner, Springut Law

March 15, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Springut Law PC is an intellectual property law boutique. We serve our clients by helping them protect and profit from their innovation by protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights. As a boutique, we provide personalized service to our clients, working closely with […]

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4 minutes with… Shayne Murphy, Chairman / CEO, Enerbi Pty

4 minutes with… Shayne Murphy, Chairman / CEO, Enerbi Pty

March 12, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Enerbi is a bio – energy company with a principle focus in the development of cost effective biomass power systems for utilisation in regional and island communities. we are also working with Chinese Businesse in the area of waste recycling,RDF production and waste […]

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4 minutes with… Ian McGregor, CTO, Drystill Technologies

4 minutes with… Ian McGregor, CTO, Drystill Technologies

March 11, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Drystill has developed a new distillation technique needed by the BioTech industry. It can gently remove alcohols from live fermentation broths at room temperature, preserving bio-catalysts and enzymes. It accomplishes this separation using less than half the energy of ordinary distillation. Tell us […]

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4 minutes with… JL Kindler, CCO at OriginOil

4 minutes with… JL Kindler, CCO at OriginOil

March 10, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. OriginOil has developed a breakthrough water cleanup technology for water-intensive industries. The company’s patent-pending Electro Water SeparationTM process rapidly and efficiently removes insoluble inorganic and organic material (fine suspended solids) from large quantities of water without the need for chemicals. Tell us about your […]

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4 minutes with… Luke Anderson, Industrial Sales, Yale Mechanical

4 minutes with… Luke Anderson, Industrial Sales, Yale Mechanical

March 9, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Help customer budget, design, Supply and install material handing and material process systems. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. Finding customers who are in need of putting together materials handling and process systems […]

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4 Minutes with…Hans Heinerman, Managing Director, BiCHEM Technology

4 Minutes with…Hans Heinerman, Managing Director, BiCHEM Technology

March 8, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. BiCHEM produces platform chemicals from biomass. It uses an inexpensive, recyclable solvent to break down cellulose and hemicellulose into sugars. These sugars are converted into base chemicals for amongst others the production of fuel additives. Another application is the conversion of sugars into bioethanol […]

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4 minutes with… Dr. Laszlo Paszner, President, PASZNER TECHNOLOGIES

4 minutes with… Dr. Laszlo Paszner, President, PASZNER TECHNOLOGIES

March 5, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Developed the ACOS (Acid Catalyzed Organosolv Saccharification) process which dissolves any biomass type in a single step and recovers/fractionates >98% of all chemical components as part of the solvent recovery process. All components are to be processed to value added products Tell us […]

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4 minutes with… Kelly Takaya King, Vice President, Pacific Biodiesel Technologies

4 minutes with… Kelly Takaya King, Vice President, Pacific Biodiesel Technologies

March 4, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Created on Maui in 1995 to recycle waste cooking oil into renewable fuel, Pacific Biodiesel is now the oldest biodiesel company in America and has since focused on advancing process technology as well as feedstock and co-product development. Our community-based biodiesel model has […]

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