In Arizona, Kenactiv Innovations announced the launch of its Activāt Fiber Technologies platform to meet rapidly increasing demand for sustainable fiber products by the textile, automotive, healthcare, plastics, packaging and consumer products industries. Activāt applies Kenactiv’s innovative and customizable processing and treatments to kenaf, jute and flax fibers to create sustainable solutions for manufacturers seeking [...]
In New York, Wickers Performance Wear, producer of performance fabrics for fire resistant base layer garments, has earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product label for its Wickers FR T-shirts. The USDA Certified Biobased Product label verifies that the Wickers FR T-shirts contain 97% of renewable biobased ingredients which meets or exceeds prescribed USDA standards. In [...]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged down 0.17 percent to 63.62 as ethanol and advanced biofuels continued a downward correction. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) fell 3.95 percent to $5.84, while Amyris (AMRS) dumped 12.22 percent to $1.58. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) shed 4.23 percent to $0.68. [...]
Mad as heck about $5 gasoline? According to new research from Iowa State, the price could have hit $6 per gallon, if the US had not had its ethanol supply. A landmark 2009 study, conducted by researchers at Iowa State’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, and updated this week for impacts through 2011, found [...]