It’s been the most amazing month for GranBio, highlighted by the official opening of the world’s largest cellulosic biofuels refinery, in Alagoas, Brazil. The venture has moved so fast that even industry insiders have had little time to get to know the technologists and executives bringing this venture to life. Here, we’re delighted to be […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We are the largest producer of utility poles in the U.S. We are trying to develop an alternative solution for the disposal of treated utility poles other than landfill, and have been actively working with biofuel producers on the creation of a feedstock […]
Last week we profiled JBEI and Sandia legend Blake Simmons — now we get a chance to profile the other half of JBEI’s biomass deconstruction dynamic duo, Seema Singh. If you’ve been thinking about investigating ionic liquids as a pretreatment strategy — well, that’s some of JBEI’s signature work. Perhaps unsurprisingly for someone who spends […]
She’s officially listed as Deputy Director of the Bioenergy Technology Office at DOE — but I count at least two terms as interim director, and totaling I believe over a year in that post. Sometimes in that job, you get the joy of seeing a technology break through at scale. Some days, you probably feel […]
Recently, if you had attended at the opening of the POET-DSM project in Emmetsburg, you would have seen Steve Hartig at the back of the pack on the plant tours — one of the go-to guys, answering all the detailed questions, deflecting the sensitive ones, getting the vision across not only for this demonstration facility, […]
For a guy deep in the gene business, ironic that he started off with jeans. Back in the 70s, Dyadic began as a pioneer and leader in providing ingredients used in the stone-washing of blue jeans. Along the way the company developed its pretty awesome C1 fungal microorganism platform that has been licensed by Codexis and Abengoa amongst […]
If you haven’t met Vonnie, you probably haven’t been in the field long, or in the US very often. One of the industry’s best-known “connector nodes” and the person who did the most to put GranBio into the top echelon in the US market over the past year — previously known for her work with DuPont […]
If you’ve been to ABLC, you’ve likely seen a hugely-popular session where we turn the tables — instead of having CEOs present their companies and technologies, we have technical diligence experts look at companies and technologies with a critical eye — pointing out the question marks and “still to be proven” aspects as well as […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Process Design Center owns and applies PROSYN, the largest (petro)chemical process expert system in the world, to develop better & cheaper bio-based processes. Inventing new processes or improving state of the art processes for the leading companies is a challenging and rewarding job. […]
You have to cheer on a guy who uses part of his entry on “favorite mentors” to cheer on the team behind the Large Hadron Collider (who found the famed Higgs boson in 2013), who hails from one of the most enthusiastic small towns in the entire Advanced Bioeconomy (Blair, Nebraska), and is a Navy […]
