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Cobalt, Bunge invests in Cobalt Technologies; expansion into biobased n-butanol eyed for Bunge, Cobalt, Rhodia partnership

October 30, 2012 | Jim Lane

In California, Cobalt Technologies announced that Bunge Global Innovation has joined its Series E Preferred Stock round as a strategic investor. The investment follows Cobalt’s agreement with Bunge and specialty chemicals company Rhodia Poliamida e Especialidades to operate a pilot plant demonstrating the production of n-butanol utilizing sugarcane bagasse as feedstock at the Laboratório Nacional […]

New 5-Minute Guides to Cobalt Technologies, Joule Unlimited, Mascoma

October 25, 2012 | Jim Lane

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, capacity, […]

Cobalt Technologies: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

October 25, 2012 | Jim Lane

Address: 500 Clyde Avenue , Mountain View, CA 94043 Year founded: 2006 Company description: Cobalt Technologies is commercializing cellulosic biobutanol, a versatile platform molecule for the renewable chemicals and fuels. The Company’s technology efficiently converts diverse non-food feedstocks – initially, lignocellulosic extracts from woody biomass and sugar cane bagasse – into biobutanol. Cobalt will offer complete systems […]

Cobalt, Rhodia ink joint development deal for biobutanol demonstration plant in Brazil

August 3, 2012 | Jim Lane

In California, Cobalt Technologies and Rhodia announced they will begin joint development and operation of a biobutanol demonstration facility in Brazil. The Cobalt/Rhodia plant will utilize sugarcane bagasse to make n-butanol; bagasse is used at sugar mills to provide process energy to drive the mill and to supply power to the local grid; the Cobalt […]

Albemarle to upgrade Cobalt n-butanol into jet fuel for Navy

March 22, 2012 | Meghan Sapp

In California, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division China Lake announced a contract award to Albemarle Corporation, a leading specialty chemicals company, to complete its first biojet fuel production run based on bio n-butanol provided by Cobalt Technologies, a leading developer of next generation bio n-butanol. For this production run, Albemarle will use NAWCWD […]

Cobalt Technologies demonstrates an advanced biocatalysts

March 9, 2012 | Jim Lane

In California, Cobalt Technologies announced the successful demonstration of one of its advanced biocatalysts. Partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy’s NREL, Cobalt completed multiple fermentation campaigns in a 9,000 liter fermenter, exceeding the target yield and other performance metrics for a commercial scale facility. Cobalt utilized the NREL Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility in the […]

Cobalt pre-treatment test clears way for commercial scale

March 7, 2012 | Jim Lane

In California, Cobalt Technologies announced that it has successfully demonstrated its dilute acid hydrolysis pretreatment process, the first step of Cobalt’s process for converting sugars into n-butanol for use as a renewable chemical or fuel. Cobalt’s dilute acid hydrolysis pretreatment process, which extracts sugars from ligno-cellulosic biomass, was validated on woody biomass, bagasse and agricultural […]

Cobalt taps Mayer as new CEO

November 29, 2011 | admin

In California, Cobalt Technologies appointed Bob Mayer as chairman and CEO. Mayer, who most recently was CEO of Genencor, currently serves on the board of advanced cellulosic biofuels developer Edeniq, and is a former board member of Martek. Cobalt’s bio n-butanol technology converts biomass and non-food waste sugars into bio n-butanol at a cost that […]

Cobalt, Rhodia tie-up for renewable chemicals from sugarcane bagasse

October 19, 2011 | admin

In California and Brazil, Cobalt Technologies and Rhodia, a specialty chemical company, announced an MOU to develop bio n-butanol refineries throughout Latin America. It’s one of the first moves into the conversion of sugar cane bagasse into renewable fuels and chemicals. There are 2.3 billion tones of sugarcane grown annually, and around 714 million tonnes […]

Cobalt, Joule in last minute Transformative Technologies surge

September 2, 2011 | admin

As the final hour nears for Transformative Technologies third-round voting, Cobalt Technologies and Joule Unlimited have been surging in last-minute voting. Cobalt is making a bid for a come-from-behind upset over the renowned technologies of Solazyme, and Joule is surging in an attempt to pull away from Mascoma in a battle for East Coast synthetic […]