Category: 5-Minute Guide

Iogen: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Iogen: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

March 9, 2015 |

Iogen says it has has “one of the world’s largest and most experienced teams in developing, designing, de-bugging, scaling-up and deploying cellulosic biofuel technology. We’re using innovative thinking and disciplined engineering to transform cellulosic biofuels into real, reliable and cost-effective fuels for today’s cars and trucks.” The first commercial cellulosic ethanol facility based on Iogen […]

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Aemetis: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Aemetis: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

March 8, 2015 |

Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants using patented technology to produce lower carbon, higher value advanced biofuels and chemicals using lower cost, non-food energy sources and feedstocks. Rankings 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: 2014/15, #49 The Situation […]

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Dyadic: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Dyadic: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

March 5, 2015 |

Dyadic International, Inc. is a global biotechnology company that uses its patented and proprietary technologies to conduct research, development and commercial activities for the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of products and solutions for the bioenergy, industrial enzyme and biopharmaceutical industries. Dyadic’s C1 platform technology enables the development and large scale manufacture of low cost […]

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Ensyn: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide


Ensyn: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide


March 4, 2015 |

Ensyn is a producer of advanced cellulosic biofuels.  Ensyn uses its patented and proprietary RTP fast thermal technology to convert wood residues and other non-food, cellulosic biomass to liquid biofuels. Ensyn has had continuous commercial operations for more than 25 years.  Its technology has produced over 37 million gallons of renewable fuels and chemicals in over […]

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Clariant: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Clariant: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

March 3, 2015 |

Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company, based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide. Clariant’s sunliquid technology for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into sugars, followed by fermentation to cellulosic ethanol, is flexible to be used to convert different feedstocks on a regional basis, for example corn stover in North […]

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ZeaChem: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

ZeaChem: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

March 2, 2015 |

ZeaChem Inc. has developed a cellulose-based biorefinery platform capable of producing advanced ethanol, fuels and chemicals. Our indirect approach leapfrogs the yield and carbon dioxide (CO2) problems associated with traditional and cellulosic based processes. ZeaChem’s patented process offers the highest yield, at the lowest cost, with the lowest fossil carbon footprint of any known biorefining […]

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Sweetwater Energy: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Sweetwater Energy: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

March 1, 2015 |

Sweetwater Energy technology produces low-cost, concentrated sugars from multiple non-food plant materials to help meet the modern world’s increasing bioenergy and biochemical demand. Sweetwater uses patent-pending technology to produce sugars from several types of biomass—from agricultural residues to harvested wood—and says that the process is more economical than the industry can currently provide. Not only […]

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OPX Biotechnologies: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

OPX Biotechnologies: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 26, 2015 |

OPXBIO styles itself in the “Good Chemistry” business, developing and producing bio-based chemicals that deliver more sustainable value for customers compared to traditional petro-based chemicals. The company’s says that its patented, leading EDGE (Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering) technology “has proven advantages over traditional bioengineering approaches”. Primarily, EDGE enables OPXBIO to more rapidly engineer microbes and […]

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Renmatix: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Renmatix: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 25, 2015 |

Renmatix is a technology licensor that enables the production of petrochemicals from plants. The company’s water-based Plantrose process is the lowest cost method for converting a wide range of non-food biomass into cellulosic sugars, used in the global chemical and fuels markets. Renmatix’s supercritical hydrolysis technology deconstructs non-food biomass an order of magnitude faster than […]

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Fulcrum BioEnergy: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Fulcrum BioEnergy: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 23, 2015 |

Fulcrum BioEnergy has developed a “game-changing process for converting municipal solid waste that would otherwise be landfilled, into renewable transportation fuels including syncrude, jet fuel and diesel”. The company has successfully proven and demonstrated this process for converting MSW to fuels utilizing its proprietary, innovative, clean and efficient thermochemical process. Fulcrum has secured long-term, zero-cost […]

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