Category: Rankings



The Hottest Biobased and Biofuels Labs & Research Partners 2013

Tweet Who are the best among universities, national labs, government research arms, private institutes, public-private collaboratives, and corporate research centers? We’ll be finding out over the next four weeks — and you’ll be the judge. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the opening of nominations for Hottest Biobased & Biofuels Labs for 2013. The response to [...]

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February 11, 2013 More

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, [...]

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December 21, 2012 More

The 100 Top People in Bioenergy 2012-13: Voting begins

Tweet Who are the top industry people? The annual ballot opens. What’s your view? In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the opening of balloting for the 2012-13 Top 100 People in Bioenergy, after a week of nominations in which more than 250 company executives, trade association leaders, policymakers and researchers around the world were nominated by [...]

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December 3, 2012 More

Top 100 People in Bioenergy for 2012-13 – Nominations open

Tweet As with last year, we are making our list of the Top 100 People in Bioenergy together, but as with all Digest rankings and lists, we’d like you to participate. The nominations link is here. We’d like you to suggest as many people as you like, and in a few sentences explain why you [...]

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November 5, 2012 More

Is Gevo still Gevolicious?

Tweet Though a panic-inducing analyst report circulates on the internet, the consensus among analysts continues to be bullish on the biobased isobutanol pioneer. With Gevo’s stock in the toilet — as of now, trading at $2.01 — the company has a market cap of $79 million and $92 million in the bank. When any company [...]

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November 2, 2012 More

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 [...]

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November 2, 2012 More

The top 150 companies in Bioenergy: the complete Digest rankings results

Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the top 150 rankings in its 2012-13 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” polls. 1 Solazyme 2 KiOR 3 LanzaTech 4 Novozymes 5 POET 6 DuPont Industrial Biosciences (Genencor) 7 Gevo 8 Sapphire Energy 9 Joule Unlimited 10 ZeaChem 11 Honeywell’s UOP 12 BP Biofuels 13 LS9 14 Chemtex / [...]

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November 2, 2012 More

OriginOil, Genomatica take Twitter leads in Hot 50, Hot 30 voting for hottest biofuels, renewable chemicals companies

Tweet In Florida, with just four days of voting left in the Hot 50 and Hot 30 rankings, OriginOil took the lead in Hot 50 Twitter voting, while Genomatica took the lead for the Hot 30. This year, 10 percent of the overall rankings will be apportioned to Twitter votes – and dozens of companies [...]

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October 15, 2012 More

Gevo takes the lead in Biofuels Digest’s Hot 50 balloting

Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest subscribers have put Gevo into the lead in 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy subscriber balloting. Last year’s winner, Solazyme, dipped to second. Novozymes continues to show a lot of strength in reader voting and placed #3 in votes so far. Meanwhile, LanzaTech has made it all the way to [...]

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October 12, 2012 More

Solazyme maintains lead in early Hot 50 voting; Amyris, LanzaTech, Sapphire Energy make a move

Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest subscribers have kept Solazyme in the lead in 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy balloting, with last year’s winner maintaining a small lead over last year’s #3, Gevo. Amyris, which had dipped to #5, has managed to get back to #4, while Novozymes continues to show a lot of strength [...]

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October 5, 2012 More