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Bioenergy PROFITS Principle: Flexibility – Execution with Excellence: HeroBX
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Roaslie Lober
What does it mean to be flexible? How can you develop a culture of flexibility within your business? In this current fast-paced and fickle marketplace, companies must respond to customers’ changing requirements quickly. For many companies, flexibility means adapting quickly to core targeted customers, which is a [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Bio This and Bio That….So What is Biodiesel Anyway?
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
Unless you’re working daily in the field of biofuels, you will probably do research to learn the specifics of the variety of fuel options, feedstocks and technologies. How will you do this without becoming overwhelmed? Today, let’s explore some of the actions you can take when you want [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Integration – Every Penny Counts
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
As the world gets flatter, companies are forced to become more efficient. The internet provides transparency for customers and competitors alike. Margins are smaller and many industries risk commoditization. The world of biofuels is no exception. Add to this transparency a fickle economy and the unpredictability of nature. [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Integration, biodiesel, and Aurora Biofuels
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
Building the Puzzle that Fits—Bioenergy PROFITS Principle: Integration
Today begins our discussion of biodiesel and biodiesel companies. Starting with the examination of Aurora Biofuels, we begin our discussion of operating your company effectively by utilizing the Bioenergy PROFITS Principle, Integration.
Your company is profitable. Feedback from your customers [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Position Only For Growth – Biofuels Financial Challenges – Part II
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
The greater your familiarity with the Biofuels financial challenges within the industry as a whole, the better your judgment and insight will be. Producers and suppliers who have been in the biofuels arena for at least five years are well aware of the current roller coaster ride.
The 2005 through [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “Digging Into Your Financial Performance – What Next?” – looking at Virent
Digging Into Your Financial Performance – What Next?
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles, Position Only For Growth
“You can have anything you want….but you can’t have everything.”
Some new age gurus might disagree, yet most of us have some limitation of finances and energy.
For companies within the world of renewable diesel, theoretically, options abound, both in available technologies [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Test and Revise – Changing World Technologies and Dynamic Fuels
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
It’s a Process…..
Bioenergy PROFITS Principle, Test and Revise
The good news is, there are choices for deciding which feedstock to use as a potential diesel fuel substitute. The bad news is, there are choices for deciding which feedstock to use as a potential diesel fuel substitute. As a producer, [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Flexibility: Anticipating the Future – NOW (Part II) – LS9, UOP, Solazyme
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
In the last column we continued our discussion for anticipating the future by implementing the Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – FLEXIBILITY
We further this investigation today with the following actions:
Identify expected results
Anticipate market changes
What is effective flexibility? Effective flexibility is responding to new circumstances by designing your business – the structure [...]
Anticipating the Future – NOW: Cetane Energy, Syntroleum and UOP
Did you hear the great news?
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure that will help support the development of a clean sustainable transportation sector. The key recipients are two cross-functional groups will seek to break down [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “Flexibility” and AltAir, Rentech, and aviation industry considered
FLEXIBLITY and Alternative Fuel For The Airline Industry
In December, both AltAir Fuels and RenTech negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with more than 14 major airlines, led by the ATA, from the United States, Mexico, Canada and Germany to negotiate the purchase of up to 750 million gallons of renewable jet fuel and diesel derived [...]
