Tag: Fulcrum Bioenergy
Fulcrum BioEnergy secures $175M in financing commitments for 1st MSW-to-biofuels project
Tweet First commercial project in Nevada scheduled for completion in 2015; dramatic drop in operating expense. In California, Fulcrum BioEnergy announced that it has successfully secured commitments and is proceeding toward closing $175 million in financing to fund construction of its first municipal solid waste to low-carbon fuels plant, the Sierra BioFuels Plant and to [...]
New 5-Minute Guides to Fulcrum BioEnergy, Petrobras
Tweet 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, [...]
Fulcrum BioEnergy: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Address: 4900 Hopyard Road Suite 200 Pleasanton, CA 94588 Year founded 2007 Company description: Fulcrum design, develop, own and will operate facilities that convert sorted, post-recycled municipal solid waste, or MSW, into ethanol. Fulcrum have entered into long-term, fixed, zero-cost MSW feedstock agreements which will provide us with a significant competitive advantage over companies using [...]
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 [...]
Waste Management invests in Fulcrum, provides $70M debt for first commercial project
Tweet Waste Management steps up with another investment in advanced biofuels from MSW. This time, the IPO-bound Fulcrum Bioenergy. Decks now cleared for Fulcrum’s first commercial project? Smooth sailing ahead for the IPO? In Texas, Waste Management announced that it has closed an equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy. In connection with this investment, WM agreed [...]
InEntec to provide plasma-enhanced melters at proposed Sierra project
Tweet In Nevada, Oregon-based InEnTec has partnered with Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. to provide plasma-enhanced melters at a Reno facility. The process will convert landfill trash to ethanol in one facility. Construction of the $180 million gasification plant is planned to begin at the end of 2011. The InEnTec melters are capable of taking waste material, [...]
Fulcrum Bioenergy's $115M IPO: The 10-Minute Version
Tweet The first zero-cost feedstock biofuels company comes to the public markets with its IPO. Like to see how this “Back the the Futuresque” technology unlocks value by converting household garbage into transportation fuel? Here’s our 10-minute version of the IPO from Fulcrum Bioenergy. In California, Fulcrum Bioenergy has filed an S-1 registration statement for [...]
Fulcrum Bioenergy files for $115M IPO
Tweet In California, Fulcrum Bioenergy has filed an S-1 registration statement for a proposed $115 million initial public offering. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. The company proposes to list under the symbol FLCM. UBS Investment Bank is the underwriter for the [...]
Genomatica vs Fulcrum Bioenergy: Who's the Best?
Tweet Background: This is a first round, West Regional match-up between #8 seed Genomatica and #9 seed Fulcrum Bioenergy 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 [...]
Fulcrum signs with Waste Management, Waste Connections for MSW-to-ethanol project
Tweet In California, Fulcrum BioEnergy announced two deals to acquire waste biomass for its Sierra BioFuels Plant, a $120 million project located approximately 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Storey County. Fulcrum recently received a DOE Loan Guarantee term sheet for the Sierra project and has begun the negotiation [...]
