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Building a chemical plant inside a microbe: Evonik, OPX BIO ink agreement for bio-based chemicals
Tweet Speciality chems giant opts for the OPX Biotechnologies’ EDGE technology to slash development timelines and costs, and boost ROI. Making biobased work on price and performance. In Germany and Colorado, Evonik and OPX Biotechnologies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop a list of (undisclosed) bio-based specialty chemicals. Evonik is one of the [...]
On the Move in Biofuels: Gevo
Tweet In Colorado, Gevo appointed Dr. Stephen P. Toon as its Executive Vice President of Operations and Process Development. In his new role at Gevo, Dr. Toon will report to Christopher Ryan, Ph.D., President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Technology Officer, and will have overall responsibility for Gevo’s Luverne, Minn. facility from startup through to [...]
OPX Biotechnologies selected as Innovation Pioneer at IHS CERAWeek
Tweet In Colorado, Bio-based chemicals and fuels producer OPX Biotechnologies has been selected as an Energy Innovation Pioneer at this year’s annual IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston. This year’s Energy Innovation Pioneers were selected based on creativity, plan feasibility, technology scalability and leadership team. The program recognized OPXBIO for developing bio-based processes that can use [...]
Nexant report looks at development of bio-acrylics for diapers to paints
Tweet In Massachusetts, Nexant has published a new multi-client report, “From Diapers to Paints – Is Bio-Acrylic Acid on the Way?”, to investigate new developing routes to acrylic acid, including technology and economic analyses for acrylic acid produced via renewable sources (including sugar, biomass, and glycerol) versus petrochemical sources (including propylene, propane, and ethylene oxide). [...]
On the Move in Biofuels: OPX Bio, Solazyme
Tweet In Colorado, OPX Biotechnologies appointed David Hogsett as vice president of research and development and chief technology officer. In the Netherlands, Avantium announced that it has added Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson to its Supervisory Board.
The Top 100 People in Bioenergy, 2012-13
Tweet The Top 100 People in Bioenergy for 2012-13, as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the Digest editorial board: 1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture 2. Jeff Broin, Chairman, Jeff Lautt, CEO, POET 3. Guido Ghisolfi, CEO, Chemtex, Beta Renewables 4. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Harrison Dillon President, Solazyme 5. Fred Cannon, [...]
ABLC 2013: line-up announced for biofuels, chemicals and biobased Leadership Week
Tweet More CEOs, content, investors, networking time, and exhibitors at advanced biofuels’ biggest gathering and deal-making forum. And more affordable than ever! 5 conferences interweaving on Advanced Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals, Aviation & Military Markets, Investment & Finance, and The New Upstream. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that ABLC 2013 – the annual Leadership Week for [...]
Biofuels Digest releases 5-Minute Guides to Myriant, OPX Bio, REG
Tweet Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, [...]
OPX Biotechnologies: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Address: 2425 55th Street, Suite 100 Boulder, CO 80301 Year Founded: 2007 Company description: OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) is a Boulder, Colorado-based company using its proprietary, leading EDGE™ (Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering) technology platform to manufacture bio-based chemicals and fuels that deliver more sustainable value to our customers. OPXBIO has successfully developed the pilot-scale [...]
The top 100 companies in renewable chemicals: the complete Digest poll
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the top 100 rankings in its 2012-13 “30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Materials” poll. 1 Genomatica 2 Solazyme 3 Myriant 4 Elevance Renewable Sciences 5 LS9 6 DuPont Industrial Biosciences (Genencor) 7 LanzaTech 8 Amyris 9 ZeaChem 10 Gevo 11 Virent 12 OPX Biotechnologies 13 [...]
