Category: 5-Minute Guide

Glucan Biorenewables: The Digest’s 2018 5-Minute Guide

January 21, 2018 | Jim Lane

Glucan Biorenewables is producing furan derivatives from biomass. The furfural platform will be used to launch other value-added co-products: 5-hydroxyl-methyl furfural (HMF) and downstream derivatives The company’s TriVersa Process meets the need for a renewable, environmentally friendly process to deconstruct aggregated agricultural residues created from existing 1st generation industries, into high-end chemicals and advanced materials. […]

Rho Renewables: The Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

October 18, 2015 | Jim Lane

Rho Renewables, Inc. is using both classical yeast genetic engineering and modern molecular biology tools to develop powerful fermentation systems for the high-yield production of monocyclic aromatic compounds that have significant market potential. Rho’s lead compounds are high value specialty chemicals, biofuels, and flavors and fragrances including Meta-cresol, Rhoctane, Vanillin and Orsellinic acid and derivatives […]

Red Rock Biofuels: The Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

July 20, 2015 | Jim Lane

Red Rock takes waste biomass from forests and sawmills, and using a proprietary process, transforms it into domestically produced jet, diesel and naphtha fuels. The company’s process begins with the gasification of woody biomass to produce syngas, which is then cleaned and sent to a Fischer-Tropsch unit where it is converted to a high grade, […]

Corbion: The Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

July 15, 2015 | Jim Lane

Corbion has over 80 years of experience in fermentation and downstream processing, is the global market leader in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives and lactides, and a leading company in functional blends containing enzymes, emulsifiers, minerals and vitamins. The company delivers high performance biobased products made from renewable resources and applied in global markets such […]

Pacific Ag: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

June 6, 2015 | Jim Lane

Founded in 1998 in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ag is the largest, most experienced agricultural biomass supply company in the US. Today, Pacific Ag provides biomass supply chain solutions from six locations across the nation and works with more growers, owns and operates more equipment, has more personnel, and harvests more biomass tons per year […]

Calysta: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide update

May 13, 2015 | Jim Lane

Calysta is using biotechnology to create innovative products from sustainable sources. Calysta Nutrition develops and produces FeedKind ™ protein feed for commercial aquaculture and livestock feed. Calysta Energy is developing high value materials for use in industrial and consumer products with cost and performance advantages over current processes. Calysta proprietary technology uses methane as an […]

Kiverdi: Biofuels Digest’s 2017 5-Minute Guide

May 11, 2015 | Jim Lane

By 2050, our society needs sustainable solutions to feed and power 10 billion people because our current practices are depleting our resources and will not scale to meet the challenge. As an example, an area the size of South America and Africa has been cleared for crops and livestock already. Kiverdi was founded with a mission […]

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 5/11/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

May 10, 2015 | Jim Lane

The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]

Avello Bioenergy: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

May 10, 2015 | Jim Lane

Avello Bioenergy is commercializing proprietary technology in the evolving field of biomass fast pyrolysis. Avello brings a novel and innovative pyrolysis oil fractionation approach to the industry. Based in central Iowa, Avello is positioned in the center of the fast growing Bioeconomy. The Situation Avello commenced devloping its demonstration facility in April 2014 and is on a 3-year runway. […]

Midori Renewables: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

May 7, 2015 | Jim Lane

Midori invented a catalyst technology that, according to the company, “will transform the entire value chain for converting most cellulosic biomass to high-quality sugars. It is unique because it is a solid material that can be recovered during the process and reused multiples times.” Midori Renewables is globally deploying the technology — which “melts cellulosic […]