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Fearsome Foursome: BASF, with 3 new deals, heads for the big league in industrial enzymes
Tweet #1 chemco acquires Henkel’s detergents enzyme technology; licenses Dyadic’s C1 platform; inks R&D pact with Direvo. In Germany, BASF has strengthened its technology footprint in industrial enzymes, one of BASF’s identified growth fields, with three separate transactions. Er, who is BASF again? BASF is the world’s leading chemical company, ranked by sales. Its portfolio [...]
Swiss chem company seeks partner to compete with Novozymes on second-gen
Tweet In Switzerland, Clariant is getting ready to go head-to-head with Novozymes and other second-generation biofuels technology providers with their own waste-to-fuel technology. The company is currently looking for partners to help fund the demonstration plant. The move comes on the heels of several years of restructuring following the $2.5 billion purchase of catalyst maker [...]
Novozymes reports 5% lift in sales, 4% earnings growth
Tweet In Denmark, Novozymes, the world leader in bioinnovation and industrial enzymes, today reported a first quarter of 2013 in line with expectations. Organic sales growth was 5% (4% DKK, 5% LCY) compared with Q1 2012. EBIT grew by 4%, and the EBIT margin was 24.9% – on par with the first quarter of 2012. [...]
Vilsack, LaHood to lead parade of biofuels, finance, policy leaders as ABLC 2013 gets underway
Tweet In Washington, the 2013 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference will kick off at 8am ET this morning. Among the highlights for today (April 15): US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take the stage at 2pm for separate addresses, and jointly sign a renewal of the “Farm to Fly” agreement [...]
New study pokes holes in double and quadruple counting for advanced biofuels
Tweet In Belgium, ePure and Novozymes have released a paper “Double Counting, Half Measures” criticizing the European Commission for not providing enough support to the development of cellulosic ethanol, and that double counting biofuels produced from wastes such as cellulosic ethanol hasn’t been enough to stimulate production. They further argue that the EC’s proposal for [...]
Oxygen for High Altitudes: 17 Biofuels ventures raise $434M in equity
Tweet Despite the sluggish economic recovery and questions over policy stability — biofuels ventures have been busy raising lots of capital. In the past 6 months, $434 million. Who got what, where, when and why? As any mountaineer knows — above 25,000 feet you hit the “death zone” – where oxygen is a must, now [...]
Biorefinery 2015 – transformations in biofuels costs, financing
Tweet The first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now reaching completion. But what does the next wave look like – from technology to financing? We explore the trends in our two-part Biorefinery 2015 series. It’s a remarkable story of expansion. According to a report from Tristan R. Brown and Robert C. Brown at the [...]
Novozymes to boost R&D investments in cellulosic and bioag
Tweet In Denmark, Bloomberg reports that Novozymes will boost its R&D in biofuels and agriculture products, above the 16% of its revenue, about $260 million that it spent last year. In comparison, Dupont spent $2.1 billion in 2012. Novozymes already has 10% of the global bioagriculture market and 60% of the biofuel enzymes market. It [...]
Who’s ahead now in enzymes? Codexis launches Next-Gen CodeXyme4
Tweet Compared to prior generations, CodeXyme 4 and CodeXyme 4X significantly reduce the cost of cellulosic sugar production for biofuels and bio‐based chemicals. In California, Codexis announced the launch of CodeXyme 4 and CodeXyme 4X cellulase enzyme packages for use in producing cellulosic sugar for production of biofuels and bio‐based chemicals. Codexis’ latest generation of [...]
World Biofuels Market – 2013 preview
Tweet Today in the Netherlands, World Biofuels Markets kicks off again as Rotterdam becomes, for the next three days, the epicenter of the global bioenergy business. The streaming in of bioenergy’s global leadership — and the mass of industry suppliers joining in — assured that the papal conclave would have a little competition this week [...]
