All Entries in the "Producer News" Category

Continental Biorefineries: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Continental Biorefineries
Based in: Canada
2008-09 rank: Unranked
Business: Thermochemical  dehydration for production of polymeric Carbon Bio-Fuel (Synthetic Coal).
Previous Milestones
1. Complete the construction of the 20 litre (12kg) tandem bio-refinery for the production of Solid PolyCarbon Bio-Fuels from non-recyclable paper waste. Completed September 5, 2009. The testing of product produced from a variety of feedstocks is [...]

Hero BX wins $1.64 million grant to expand biodiesel production capacity from 45 Mgy to 55 Mgy

In Pennsylvania, Hero BX won a $1.64 million grant to expand its biodiesel production by 10 Mgy to 55 Mgy. American Agriculturalist is reporting that the company expects to move to up to 25 percent camelina as a feedstock source by 2012. According to the report, the company is already working with Penn State Extension [...]

BlueFire Ethanol proceeds to Stage Two of DOE Loan guarantee process

In California, the Department of Energy has determined that BlueFire Ethanol has met the requirements of Part One of the loan guarantee application process, and have invited the company to proceed onto Part Two of the process for financing the company’s commercial cellulosic biofuels plant planned for Lancaster, CA.
BlueFire is raising $56 million, which would [...]

Taurus Energy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Taurus Energy
Based in: Sweden
2008-09 rank: 30
Business: Fermentation of pentoses for ethanol production
Previous Milestones
1. Agreement with the Technical University of Lund, the Technical University Chalmers and SEKAB to run a project supported by the Swedish state Energimyndigheten. The project has the title Industrial verification of fermentation of pentoses.
2. MoU with an Indian company and [...]

LS9: “We’re ready to move on scale…about to lock down our demonstration scale plant.”

In California, the Digest visited with 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate company— and microbial fermentation pioneer — LS9 (ranked #25 in last year’s poll). CEO Bill Haywood offered an update on activities.
“We’re ready to move on scale,” Haywood said. “We’re about to lock down a distressed asset as our demonstration scale plant. In a [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtain Vital Information — looking at Mascoma, Amyris, Virent, LS9 and Qteros

Cellulosic Ethanol – Let me count the ways….
In this new series of articles, Biofuels Digest, takes a more detailed exploration of bioprocessing technology for cellulosic ethanol.  Over the next few installments, Dr. Rosalie Lober, highlights (from her newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS), proven principles to [...]

Solazyme: “By focusing on the diesel and jet side, we’re focusing on the things that have to be around.”

In California, the Digest visited with 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate company Solazyme (ranked #6 in last year’s poll), and CEO Jonathan Wolfson offered an update on the algae-based renewable oils company’s most recent activities.
“By this stage, we worked with almost everything in terms of feedstocks – bagasse, miscanthus, green waste, soft woods. One [...]

BioMCN: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

BioMCN

Based in: Netherlands
2008-09 rank: Unranked
Business: Purification, evaporation and cracking (of crude glycerine) to obtain syngas which is used to synthesise bio-methanol
3 Top Milestones for 2008?09
March 2008: proof of principle in our 20.000 t pilot plant,
October 2008: winner European Responsible Care Award,
July 2009: successful start-up commercial 200.000 t plant
3 Major Milestone Goals for 2010?11 [...]

Biofuels DIgest falls 0.96 percent to 65.86 on oil, Big Ag decline

The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.96 percent to 65.86 on oil and Big Ag declines. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.38 percent to $32.16, while BP retreated 1.35 percent to $58.33.  Among smaller caps, Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) gained 13.58 percent to $9.37. Overall, [...]

Jet Plains: Do grasses, woods, mustards grown in the heartlands hold the key for aviation fuels?

Ceres, ViaSpace, Sustainable Oils, Solazyme are among R&D leaders aiming to turn America’s heartland into a high-tech advanced biofuels playground of energy grasses and camelina for advanced transportation biofuels and aviation fuel.
“I fully expect that in the future,” said Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson, “that I will make my daily 15-mile commute in a car that [...]