Solazyme takes lead from Gevo in Hot 30 voting

June 14, 2011 |

Solazyme has taken the lead in voting for the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals, with Gevo and Amyris remaining close behind. Filling out the top 10 after voting in the past week are Cargill, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Genomatica, Novozymes, Genencor, Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol, and Cobalt Technologies. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Petrobras, Joule Unlimited, LanzaTech, Cosan, Enerkem joined the Top 30 this week, five weeks before the conclusion of voting.

Among the big movers in this week’s voting – Dow Chemical, Genomatica and Cobalt vaulted into the top 10 after a strong showing in Community voting.

This week, votes began coming in from the Digest’s online Community, whose registered members will make up one-third of the overall voting. To date, only 10 percent of Community members have voted – making the individual votes of Community members at this stage worth more than 20 times the weighting of an individual subscriber vote. Next week, voting will begin with the invited international selector panel, who will also control one-third of the overall votes in the annual rankings.

The rankings, which focus on the production of chemicals, organic acids, plastics, fragrances, food products and other materials form biomass, are based upon voting by Biofuels Digest subscribers, member of the Digest Online Community, and a panel of invited international selectors. Voting will conclude July 20, 1011, and the rankings will be published as part of the July 27 Biofuels Digest anniversary issue.

The Top 30 in initial voting are:

Solazyme
Amyris
Gevo
Dupont
Genomatica
Cargill
Novozymes
Dow Chemical
Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol
Cobalt Technologies

Codexis
ZeaChem
POET
Genencor
LS9
Coskata
Waste Management
DSM
Virent Energy Systems
Chevron

Ceres
KiOR
UOP (Honeywell’s UOP)
Enerkem
Cosan
Mascoma
LanzaTech
Joule Uniimited
Elevance Renewable Sciences
Petrobras

In voting, subscribers said that credibility (real and proven technology, vs claim and hype), was overwhelmingly the most important quality as they ranked companies. Uniqueness – (novel technologies, vs “me-too”) was the second most important factor, Allies – (all the right strategic partners, vs “go it alone”) was third, Scale (Big-Scale projects addressing urgent needs, vs small-scale “nice to have”) was fourth, and Visibility (widely known, vs unknown, technologies and players) was the least important criterion.

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