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Diamond in the rough: The Digest’s 2015 8-Slide Guide to Cobalt’s technology

Diamond in the rough: The Digest’s 2015 8-Slide Guide to Cobalt’s technology

October 14, 2015 |

Cobalt Technologies was 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 offered complete systems for sugar mill, pulp and paper, and biomass power facility retrofits with a […]

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GranBio, Solvay JV acquires Cobalt Technologies’ assets

GranBio, Solvay JV acquires Cobalt Technologies’ assets

October 14, 2015 |

Price undisclosed. So Cobalt’s array of microbes and know-how finds a new home. What will happen with the technology? What happened with Cobalt? The Digest investigates. We can now affirmatively report that SGBio, a joint venture between the Solvay Group and GranBio, has acquired assets from Cobalt  including the bank of microorganisms and intellectual property […]

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RIP Cobalt Technologies or…How Commercializing Butanol Technology is Like Riding the Tour de France

RIP Cobalt Technologies or…How Commercializing Butanol Technology is Like Riding the Tour de France

June 24, 2015 |

By Sam Nejame & James Evangelow, special to The Digest Sad to say Cobalt Technologies is dead – no really they’re dead – it’s not just double secret probation anymore. Although you’d almost not even know it given how quiet the company’s been over the last few years. And after the venture guys cleared out […]

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Cobalt, Andritz sign exclusive partnership to integrate biobutanol, pre-treatment processes

Cobalt, Andritz sign exclusive partnership to integrate biobutanol, pre-treatment processes

July 10, 2014 |

Cobalt Technologies signed an exclusive global cooperation and supply agreement with Andritz to integrate Cobalt’s proprietary lignocellulosic process for the production of n-butanol with Andritz’s customized pre-treatment systems. The primary alcohol, n-butanol is a widely used industrial chemical found in paints, lacquers, and other surface coatings. It has traditionally been produced from fossil fuels. Engineered […]

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Cobalt Technologies: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

Cobalt Technologies: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

March 11, 2014 |

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 for sugar mill, pulp and paper, and biomass power facility retrofits with […]

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NREL Teams with Navy, Cobalt Technologies, Show Me Energy to Make Jet Fuel from Switchgrass

NREL Teams with Navy, Cobalt Technologies, Show Me Energy to Make Jet Fuel from Switchgrass

June 10, 2013 |

In Colorado, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Cobalt Technologies, U.S. Navy, and Show Me Energy Cooperative to demonstrate that jet fuel can be made economically and in large quantities from a renewable biomass feedstock such as switchgrass. NREL’s pretreatment reactor and enzymatic digester reactors will process switchgrass into fermentable sugars. NREL’s […]

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Cobalt, Mercurius, BioProcess Algae, Frontline land $17.7M in military biofuels grants

Cobalt, Mercurius, BioProcess Algae, Frontline land $17.7M in military biofuels grants

April 23, 2013 |

Pilot-scale biorefineries for drop-in military diesel, jet fuel the focus of the DOE’s latest grant round. In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced up to $17.7 million in grants to four pilot-scale biorefinery projects aimed at military-spec hydrocarbon fuels. Cobalt Technologies, Mercurius Biofuels, BioProcess Algae and Frontline BioEnergy were selected for negotiation. Recipients are […]

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LS9 boosts its capacity by running pilot Cobalt Technologies

LS9 boosts its capacity by running pilot Cobalt Technologies

April 17, 2013 |

In Florida, LS9 Inc. announced the expansion of its operations at the company’s Okeechobee after successfully completing a pilot production run at its Florida plant for another advanced bioproducts company, Cobalt Technologies. Fermentation scale-up is an expensive proposition and requires the proper facilities and expertise to make an effective run. The need to run trials is also […]

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C4 explosion: Cobalt Technologies is the latest four-carbon biobased player to expand capacity

C4 explosion: Cobalt Technologies is the latest four-carbon biobased player to expand capacity

April 15, 2013 |

Cobalt expands into Asia and butadiene with two new strategic investors. What’s up with the C4 molecules? Why is everyone building capacity? In California, the Digest has learned that Cobalt Technologies is announcing this morning a strategic relationship with two prominent, but undisclosed, Asian chemical companies for the development of butadiene from a range of […]

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Bunge invests in Cobalt Technology to bring butanol to Brazilian mills

Bunge invests in Cobalt Technology to bring butanol to Brazilian mills

October 31, 2012 |

In Brazil, Bunge’s innovation arm is investing an undisclosed amount in the Series E funding round for California-based Cobalt Technologies and anticipates introducing the biobutanol technology in its sugarcane mills. The companies are working Rhodia to produce n-butanol from bagasse at a pilot facility in Campinas.

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