Neste Oil vs DSM: Who's the Best?

Background: This is a first round, International Regional match-up between #8 seed Neste Oil and #9 seed DSMin the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest.

Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here.

The winner gets: Most votes advances to the second-round (round of 32), and a shot at the Biofuels Sweet Sixteen.

The loser: Goes home.

Laurels: Neste is the 29th ranked company in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. DSM is currently ranked #20 in the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals.

The match-up: Fuels vs chemicals, in a Goliath vs Goliath first-round tilt.

DSM has: Enzymes trace element preparations and process optimization service for biogas (DSM Biogas Services); also, enzymes, advanced ethanol yeast and advanced processing technologies for cellulosic ethanol via a localized, on-site production business model (DSM White Biotechnology – Bio-Conversion Solutions).

Neste has NExBTL renewable diesel, which it is producing at scale. Last October, Neste Oil and Stora Enso are seeking sites for a facility that would produce 200,000 metric tons per year of renewable diesel from wood waste using Neste’s NExBTL technology. The plan will develop its environmental impact assessment beginning in November with the plant built possibly as early as 2012. Neste has opened its 800,000 ton NExBTL plant in Singapore, and another one of the same size in Rotterdam this year.