The 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-based materials

The voting has concluded, and the readers and selectors have spoken.

What makes a great partner? According to our readers – acceleration and validation. Partners that can add credibility (via their brands) to your efforts, and accelerate your path to commercialization.

Here are, in order of rank, the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-Based Materials, as voted by the subscribers and invited international selectors of Biofuels Digest:

1.     Novozymes
2.     US Navy
3.    Ceres
4.    Waste Management
5.    US Department of Energy
6.    Khosla Ventures
7.     Solazyme
8.     Genencor – Dupont Industrial Biosciences
9.     BP
10.     Dow Chemical
11.    Valero
12.    Honeywell’s UOP
13.     USDA
14.     DOD
15.     POET Biomass
16.     Boeing
17.     Green Plains Renewable Energy
18.     P&G
19.     Coca-Cola
20.     Bunge
21.    Codexis
22.    John Deere
23.     Gevo
24.    Stoel Rives
25.    POET-DSM
26.    Kleiner, Perkins
27.    Pacific Northwest National Lab
28.    Oak Ridge National Lab
29.     Shell
30.     Harris Group
31.     Propel Biofuels
32.     Total
33.    Caterpillar
34.     BASF
35.     Mintz Levin
36.     ArborGen
37.     AMEC
38.    Fagen
39.    Burrill & Co
40.    YSI Instruments