Search Results for 'terrabon'
Who’s Your Valentine? Biofuels Digest’s Ardent 50
Tweet Gevo, KiOR top the Ardent 50 rankings at biofuelsdigest.com — the most-intensively researched companies— analyzing page views from more than 800,000 site visits. In Florida, Gevo and KiOR took Valentines Day honors by topping the Ardent 50 rankings, as Biofuels Digest published the 50 Most searched companies at biofuelsdigest.com for 2012-13. In topping this [...]
In Case You Missed. Biofuels Digest’s 16 Most-Viewed Stories.
Tweet 12 months, 4400 stories. From 2012, here are the 16 most viewed stories in Biofuels Digest. Biofuels Digest Jobs - Job seeking is always a priority The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2012-13 are announced - The always popular Hot 50 and Hot 30 lists How Joule may turn biofuels upside down - Joule’s low-cost, drop-in [...]
5 Biofuels Trends for 2013
Tweet Oil Majors, capacity building shortfalls, green diesel, waste to energy, and sustainability on the radar for 2013 By Mackinnon Lawrence Despite a relatively down year with respect to investment and production capacity expansion, the biofuels industry grew modestly in 2012, continuing a shift from first generation facilities to next generation, advanced biorefineries. Although it [...]
Turning the tables: the Digest looks at You, the biofuels reader
Tweet Today, we look at a really, really important topic: You. As a bioenergy reader, what influences your thinking, what kind of information are you searching for, how do you respond to messaging, and when, and how? Is media power becoming more diffuse, or more concentrated? In the issues of Biofuels Digest, we almost invariably look [...]
The Age of Upstream
Tweet What is the ideal relationship between feedstock producers and refiners? Has the balance tipped too far towards the upstream? As the Algae Biomass Summit opens, we look at a global trend in transferring “All power to the Feedstocks!” – the advantages, options, and the potential for consequences. You see it everywhere. Oil producers 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 [...]
Advanced biofuels pioneer Terrabon files for chapter 7 bankruptcy: One-off or trend?
Tweet Closely-watched green gasoline producer collapses as Waste Management declines next financing round. What does it mean for companies like Fulcrum Bioenergy, Enerkem, Agilyx, Agnion, Renmatix, Genomatica, and InEnTec? The Digest looks at the inside story. In Texas, Terrabon filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection; the company’s operations will cease and a trustee will be [...]
44 people worth knowing in advanced biofuels
Tweet 44 biofuels thought-leaders, rock stars, and tellers of cautionary tales — in one place, at one time — to reflect on the present and chart a course for the future. This October 29th, the Biofuels Digest community will be gathering again in San Francisco for Advanced Biofuels Markets. Complete event information is here. Our dream [...]
Coskata switches focus from biomass to natural gas; to raise $100M in natgas-oriented private placement
Tweet Coskata, looking at CAPEX opportunities, political uncertainty, and the investor climate — switches to an “all natural gas” feedstock strategy. Initiates a $100M private placement, puts Alabama project on hold. In today’s Digest, we look at the rationale, the impact and the way forward. “In North America there’s a golden opportunity,” Coskata CEO Bill [...]
Biofuels in an hour of peril and unparalleled opportunity
Tweet At our next industry get-together, we look at biofuels and bio-based products in their hour of maximum peril and opportunity – are you prepared? At no time in its short, turbulent history have the biofuels and biomaterials industries gone through a period of threat and opportunity like 2012, with the possible exception of the [...]



