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Mascoma’s CEO steps down as company’s focus on commercialization steps up

In Massachusetts, Mascoma announced that CEO Bruce Jamerson is stepping down, and Mascoma’s VP for R&D of R&D and operations,  Jim Flatt, will take the role as acting president and lead the company temporarily while the company searches for a new CEO. Jamerson will become chairman of Mascoma and CEO of the company’s Frontier Renewable [...]

Breakthrough at Mascoma holds potential for 60 percent drop in production cost of cellulosic ethanol; ‘golden dream’ of CBP is closer than thought

In Massachusetts, Mascoma will announce later this morning a breakthrough that is reducing the cost of cellulosic ethanol production by up to 60 percent in lab tests.
The breakthrough relates to consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) – a transformational technology which the DOE/USDA 2006 Roadmap called “the ultimate low-cost configuration for cellulose hydrolysis and fermentation,” and which reduces [...]