In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite announced it has completed construction of its new 12,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and is ramping up phase one production for Bio-Res PE. The bio-material is a high-performance, cost-effective replacement for traditional petroleum-based resins in a variety of manufacturing processes for plastics. Laurel BioComposite is taking delivery of equipment that includes […]
In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite plans to break ground on its $17 million commercial scale bio-resin facility this spring, scaling up from the small batches it has been producing from DDGS and sending off to potential customers for testing. The new facility will produce 48 million pounds of bio-resin pellets annually. Funding for the investment came […]
In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite, who recently opened a 250 pounds per hour pilot plant that produces the company’s bioplastic resins based on ethanol by-product distillers grain, says it has completed its first test batches and have sent them off to seven customers for testing. The pellets can be blending at up to 40% with other […]
In India, a group of engineering students at Government Engineering College Barton Hill have built an electric car using renewable and recycled materials. Dubbed Vandy, the prototype took the nineteen-member Team Pravega ten months to design. It weighs just under 80 kilogram and features a 3D-printed polylactic acid body and underbody made of recycled cloth […]
Huge and positive news arrives from Washington, the US House passed the Inflation Reduction Act and it now crosses to the White House for President Biden’s signature, which is a foregone conclusion. One of the Digesterati described the shift in momentum: “The roof is lifting off the renewable energy industry broadly with the IRA and […]
In Iowa, we reported late last week that POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels will build an on-site enzyme manufacturing facility in Emmetsburg, pending state and local approvals. It gives us a chance to review the progress with cellulosic biofuels. In that, you might find yourself in one of three camps, in looking at cellulosic’s slow ramp-up: 1. […]
Any way you look at the US 2016 presidential elections or the turmoil within the European Union (e.g Brexit, or Italy’s referendum on membership), you can conclude that we are entering into in anti-federal cycle, and the most innovative public-private policies are likely for some time to proceed out of regions, provinces and states. In […]
On October 23-26 the algae industry gathered in Phoenix, AZ for the Algae Biomass Summit , its annual get together. Gone are the glory days of algae biofuels capturing headlines and promising to save the world from climate change. Over the years some of the early players are gone, others have changed focus and others […]
