Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with… Susan Seagren, Director, AMCREF Community Capital

4 minutes with… Susan Seagren, Director, AMCREF Community Capital

July 27, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. AMCREF invests in projects and business located in the Southern U.S. that generate high quality jobs and provide environmental benefits. We provide low cost capital via a federal program called New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs) to increase private investment in low income communities, […]

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4 minutes with… Mitrajit Mukherjee, President, Exelus

4 minutes with… Mitrajit Mukherjee, President, Exelus

July 23, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Exelus is developing a first-of-a-kind process to convert virtually any type of ligno-cellulosic biomass into a clean, environmentally friendly “Bio-naphtha” a paraffinic hydrocarbon similar to fossil-based light naphtha. Bio-naphtha can then be converted in a conventional refinery or petrochemical complex into a whole […]

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4 minutes with… Eddy Christensson, VP Sales & Marketing, North America, Taurus Energy AB, Lund Sweden

4 minutes with… Eddy Christensson, VP Sales & Marketing, North America, Taurus Energy AB, Lund Sweden

July 22, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Taurus Energy is a Research & Development company specializing in strain development of pentoses both xylose and arabinose in biomass derived streams. Taurus has extensive know-how in lingo cellulosic ethanol production with 11 patent families and 60 patents approved around the world. Tell […]

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4 minutes with… Manfred Kircher, Chairman of the Advisory Board, KADIB

4 minutes with… Manfred Kircher, Chairman of the Advisory Board, KADIB

July 21, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. KADIB gives advice and offers expertise in the Global Industrial Bioeconomy. We strive to position profitable chemical and energy value chains sustainably in the Political, and Economical, as well as Societal, Technological, Legislative and Ecological (PESTLE) environment and conditions. Tell us about your role […]

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4 minutes with…  Robert E. Fogg, President/CEO/GM, Q-Team Tree Service

4 minutes with… Robert E. Fogg, President/CEO/GM, Q-Team Tree Service

July 20, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We’ve been in the residential tree-service business for 30 years. Our business is quite seasonal and so we are interested in using our 2,000+ annual tons of wood waste in the off-season to create a product that we can sell for a profit. […]

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4 Minutes with… Dr Marc Sabourin, EVP Business Development Americas, Leaf Resources Limited

4 Minutes with… Dr Marc Sabourin, EVP Business Development Americas, Leaf Resources Limited

July 19, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Leaf Resources is a process technology company, providing economical biobased solutions for commercial production of cellulosic sugars and other lignocellulosic platforms derived from biomass. Our technology, combines crude glycerine and process integration for improving biomass pretreatment efficiency upstream and opening downstream opportunities Tell […]

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4 minutes with… Kaisu Annala, Strategic Director, Cleantech Ministry of Employment and the Economy of Finland

4 minutes with… Kaisu Annala, Strategic Director, Cleantech Ministry of Employment and the Economy of Finland

July 16, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The new government of Finland has included in its strategy a total chapter for bioeconomy and clean solutions (=cleantech). The targets has been set for 10-year and governmental 4-year timeframes. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the […]

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4 minutes with… Mahmood Ebadian, Founder, Biomass Supply Chain Consulting

4 minutes with… Mahmood Ebadian, Founder, Biomass Supply Chain Consulting

July 15, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Biomass Supply Chain Consulting Ltd. specializes in the application of decision science to help its clients make more informed strategic, tactical and operational decisions across the biomass supply chain. Expertise includes simulation and optimization modeling, sensitivity analysis, scenario-based analysis, and feasibility studies. The […]

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4 minutes with… Jason Force, CEO, Iron Goat

4 minutes with… Jason Force, CEO, Iron Goat

July 14, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Iron Goat is an agricultural robotics company with an innovative direct-to-pellet harvester technology. Our role in the advanced bioeconomy is to provide a method to lower the harvest process cost going from energy grasses to pellet feedstock. In most cases we can produce […]

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4 minutes with… Carl Glanzman, PE Manager, Nishnabotna Naturals

4 minutes with… Carl Glanzman, PE Manager, Nishnabotna Naturals

July 13, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Experimenting with: DDG value added products (plant nutrition), soil mycorhizoidal stimulant production, design of passive and active heating and cooling systems for year-round produce production using dried distiller grains, consulting on design and enhancement of ethanol plant energy efficiency using the concept of […]

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