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Biofuels News: Aviation, Algae, and Production
Here are some big news items from the biofuel industry coming from KLM, Kior and Sapphire Energy.Let’s start with KLM, which announced on March 8 that it is now operating a weekly flight (Flight KL642) from New York to Amsterdam operated by a Boeing...
Innovation: New CO2-Based Plastics
So many news to post and so little time to do. The blog has earnings news from Solazyme and Amyris, updates from Cereplast, interview article from Ovation Biotech, updates on bio-adipic acid, and of course the weekly news roundup, and now this news...
Energy Use vs. Waste: The Quest for Bio-Polystyrene
I have this draft on bio-styrene for a couple of months now but has never been able to post it given that there are not many companies within the renewable chemicals industry developing plant-based styrene monomer alternatives.However, on February...
Biofuel Battle Heats Up
So I was watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, when I saw the Dodge Ram truck commercial “God Made a Farmer” and I thought about the recent 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards proposal by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).Yes, my brain is weird, I...
2013: A validation year for industrial biotech
Speaking of the recent BIO Pacific Rim Industrial Biotechnology summit, my ex-boss kindly forward to me a recent report from investment firm Jefferies & Company on their key takeaways about several discussions coming from the conference.I need...
Waste-to-energy projects going strong
I am still working on the weekly news roundup but this news about waste-to-energy keep popping up on my email inbox so we might as well take a brief look and see what's going on in this sector.I have written an article on ICIS Chemical Business...
Codexis, Shell in fuel discussion
Codexis announced today that it is under exclusive discussion with Shell that would give Codexis certain rights and licenses to develop and sell their cellulase enzymes to third parties in the biofuels field on a worldwide basis except Brazil....
Gevo continues operation despite federal injunction
ICIS news reported* this morning that Gevo will continue to optimize its bio-isobutanol operations in Luverne, Minnesota, as previously planned amid today's injunction decision by the US Federal District Court of Delaware to limit Gevo's...
Is Shell still interested in cellulosic ethanol?
On Codexis' 8-K filing, the company said its cellulosic ethanol research collaboration between Iogen and Shell will now be terminated effective June 30, 2012. The question here is Shell's commitment in cellulosic ethanol, and if Codexis...
Brazil's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant
Cellulosic biomass technology developer GraalBio is planning to help build Brazil's biorefinery industry with a R$300m ($146m) investment of a new 22m gallons/year cellulosic ethanol plant to be constructed in Alagoas using sugarcane bagasse and...
Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Researchers at technology company Siemens have developed an alternative material to polystyrene-based acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plastic made from renewable-based polymers and carbon dioxide.The new material -- a result of a three-year...
What's up with all the management reshuffling at green chemical companies?
I noticed the blog has been receiving a lot of notices on personnel changes within the renewable chemicals sector this year and the most recent one is Amyris' top management team announced yesterday.According to Amyris, three of its management team...
