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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 [...]
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 [...]
LanzaTech raises $15M, ZeaChem $5.1M in Series C sweeteners – lead 15 biobased companies in the 2012 Cleantech 100
Tweet LanzaTech and ZeaChem, two of last year’s new entrants in the top 10 among the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, raise fresh capital as they head for commercialization. Plus, both are among 15 biobased companies that made this year’s Cleantech 100 list, as selected by the Cleantech Group. We look at the honorees. In [...]
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 [...]
Super-cali-thali-terpa-butyl-peta what? The hockey-stickin’, flash-mobbin’ growth in biobased intermediates
Tweet The new trend in biofuels is not a biofuel at all – it’s an (usually unpronounceable) intermediate that can be refined into an array of fuels, chemicals, flavors, fragrances, and construction or packaging materials. Ptera-buta-thalic-what? We can hardly pronounce them, but we sure need to know about them. Amyris, KiOR, Renmatix, Virdia, Blue Sugars, [...]
Gevo tops weekly Biofuels Brand Index; takes Q3 lead; Joule, Coskata, BP close behind
Tweet In Florida, Gevo topped the the Biofuels Brand Index for the week of July 30-August 3, in a new weekly feature tracking biofuels producer brands exposure. The latest weekly release, revealed the brand exposure for 45 different organizations, based on appearances each made in the more than 90 news features published that week, and [...]
Genomatica heads for renewable chemicals commercialization with $41.5M Series D venture round; Italian chemicals giant Versalis joins as investor
Tweet In California, Genomatica announced it has raised an additional $41.5 million in a Series D round of preferred stock financing. The investment featured strategic partners, including new investor and partner Versalis, the largest Italian chemical company. Existing investors Alloy Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mohr Davidow Ventures, TPG Biotech, VantagePoint Capital Partners and Waste Management [...]
30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Products, 2012-13: registration opens
Tweet In Florida, registration opened August 1, 2012 for the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Products rankings, complied and published by Biofuels Digest and Biobased Digest. All registered companies will appear automatically on the Hot 30 ballot which will be distributed to 30,000 Digest subscribers and 1,000 invited international selectors. Registered companies also [...]
Advanced biofuels, chemicals capacity to reach 5.89B gallons by 2017
Tweet Advanced Biofuels & Chemicals Project Database; 278 projects now tracked; 157 project updates, 29 countries in the July 2012 release; free download. In Florida, Biofuels Digest is reporting that global advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals capacity will reach 5.89 billion gallons by 2017, up from 5.11 billion gallons by 2016 reported in the November [...]
