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Virdia: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Company description: Virdia is the developer of the CASE™ process that converts lignocellulose into industrial sugars and lignin. Virdia uses wood chips and other cellulosic biomass to produce non-food based carbohydrates destined for the sector of advanced bio-chemicals and biofuels. Virdia enables the emergence of the bio-based economy, as cellulosic sugars and lignin are [...]
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Materials; voting opens
Tweet The annual rankings competition opens up for the hottest companies in the sector; who will be #1 – who will get your vote? New annual Biofuels Databook published for selectors; voting by Twitter introduced this year. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the official opening of voting for the 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy [...]
Virdia, Virent pioneer new super-performing, parity-cost renewable jet fuel pathway
Tweet Virent, Virdia debut super-performing drop-in aviation biofuels made from drop-in cellulosic pine tree sugars; “passed under conditions where conventional jet fuels would fail,” says Air Force. In Wisconsin, Virent and Virdia (formerly HCL CleanTech), announced the successful conversion of cellulosic pine tree sugars to drop-in hydrocarbon fuels within the BIRD Energy project, a joint [...]
Biofuels Digest finalizes speakers for Advanced Biofuels Leadership Week
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that a record number of C-level executives will be speakers for Leadership Week 2012, in Washington, DC, April 2-5 , which incorporates the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, Renewable Chemicals Live, the Bio-Based Investor Summit and Aviation and Military Biofuels Markets. More about Advanced Biofuels Leadership Week 2012 and the [...]
Virdia ups the ante in the Race for the New Sugars
Tweet Low-cost cellulosic sugar maker announces $100 million in financing; name change from HCL CleanTech, support from Mississippi. The race for leadership in low-cost sugars heats up. In California, Virdia, formerly HCL CleanTech, a leading developer of cellulosic sugars, today announced major company milestones, including a new brand and CEO, its latest funding round, and [...]
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to keynote Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will deliver the principal keynote address at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, which runs April 2-5 at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC. Digest editor Jim Lane commented: “We are looking forward to fostering even closer ties between the Secretary and advanced [...]
150+ companies make early commitments to 2012 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the names of more than 150 companies that are, to date, committed to participating in the 2012 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, which will take place April 2-5, 2012 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. ABLC 2012 will be host to five interactive conferences: Renewable Chemicals Live on April [...]
BlueFire and the race for low-cost sugars
Tweet BlueFire Renewables’ low-cost sugars subsidiary, SucreSource, announces a major project in Korea backed by oil refiner GS Caltex. Who else is gaining traction in the race to provide low-cost sugars? A generation of magic bugs — who turn sugars into renewable fuels, chemicals, flavors, fragrances and more — await them. In California, SucreSource, a [...]
The quick lowdown on energy crops and low-cost sugars
Tweet In Texas, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov issued a new report, “Gen2 Biofuel Feedstocks: The Coming Surge in Energy Crops and Cellulosic Sugars.” Molchanov writes: As energy investors know well, it is much better to own the oil than to refine it. In other words, the bulk of the value is in the upstream [...]
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Scale
Tweet Codexis, Mascoma show that low-cost sugar is the key, as advanced biofuels moves from R&D into industrial era There used to be a restaurant in lower Manhattan called Exterminator Chili. Decorated in Elvis garb, it served world-class chili for the enlightened chow hound, in three grades of heat: residential (hot), commercial (blistering), and [...]
