In California, SG Biofuels has expanded its science team with the addition of Benito Juarez as director of breeding. Juarez joins SGB’s breeding and biotechnology team as it ramps its global development and deployment of improved hybrid varieties of Jatropha.
In California, Miguel Motta has been named COO of SG Biofuels, after serving since 2010 as VP of marketing and strategy. Motta will oversee marketing, business development, global operations and HR for the elite seed developer. In related news, CFO Jeff Davids left the company to lead the Global Clean Technology practice at DavenportMajor Executive […]
In Brazil, SG Biofuels announced it has teamed with JETBIO, leader of a multi-stakeholder initiative including Airbus, the Inter-American Development Bank, Bioventures Brasil, Rio Pardo Bioenergia, Air BP and TAM Airlines, to accelerate the production of crude Jatropha oil as a source for aviation bio jet fuel in Brazil. SG Biofuels will work with Bioventures […]
Background: This is a second round, International Regional match-up between #2 seed LS9 and #7 seed SG Biofuels, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the […]
In India, Marketwatch is reporting on Mission New Energy’s contracts with more than 100,000 Indian farmers to grow jatropha. Biofuels Digest Asia editor Joelle Brink commented, “Yep, it’s still India where jatropha 1.0 bloomed and died, and where Bharat Petroleum got busted for trying to do the biggest landgrabs since Genghis Khan, at government expense, […]
Background: This is a first round, International Regional match-up between #7 seed SG Biofuels and #10 seed TMO Renewables in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances […]
Jatropha 1.0: game over, Jatropha 2.0: Game on — SG Biofuels, Bharat Petroleum hook up for makeover of Indian jatropha In India, SG Biofuels and Bharat Renewable Energy, a unit of India’s second largest oil company, Bharat Petroleum, signed a landmark commercial agreement to develop and deploy elite hybrids of Jatropha across a total 86,000 […]
SG Biofuels announces 250K acres secured for with JMax jatropha hybrids – 1MM acres in pipeline. What’s different about jatropha 2.0? In California, SG Biofuels announced it has signed customers for the deployment of 250,000 acres of Jatropha using its JMax hybrid seeds. According to SG, “the JMax hybrid seeds on average provide double the […]
In California, SGBiofuels announced it is applying more than 1.6 million genetic markers (SNPs) for Jatropha curcas toward the development of marker assisted selection (MAS) methods to produce elite, high-performing cultivars of the energy crop. The work, in partnership with Lfie Technologies, accelerates the identification and development of specific genetic traits in Jatropha including fruit […]
In California, SG Biofuels named Subhas Pattnaik as director of operations for the India market. Subhas formerly led operations for Mission New Energy in India where he managed the rollout and operations of 200,000 acres of jatropa, 124,000 farmers across five provinces.
