Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. EnergyEne is a start up materials/energy company with technology licensed from the Ohio State University. EnergyEne’s CapEx & OpEx light guayule biorefinery model produces high value latex, natural rubber, and suite of high value bio products from integrated breakthroughs in harvesting, processing, conversion, […]
By Katrina Cornish FAAAS Endowed Chair and Ohio Research Scholar, Bioemergent Materials, The Ohio State University; CEO, EnergyEne Inc., Member, Lee Enterprises Consulting Corinne Young, Special Advisor to EnergyEne, CEO Corinne Young LLC, Chief Advocate re:chem, Member Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to the Digest This is the sixth in a series of articles prepared by […]
The Sustainable Bioeconomy for Arid Regions (SBAR) is a multi-level research project that will cultivate two desert-dwelling crops, guayule and guar, for a sustainable bioeconomy. Scale up to profitable production, however, requires feedstock improvements, expansion of cultivation, agronomic knowledge and practices, and economic crop residue utilization. Researchers from The University of Arizona (UA), Bridgestone Americas, Inc., […]
You might be wondering what the heck this map signifies — enthroned as it is on the website of the National Insitute of Food & Agriculture, the USDA’s primary intersection with the academic community — and also visible in an updated form at ABLC Next when USDA Energy Policy director Harry Baumes took the floor. […]
In today’s newsflow, NIFA unveiled $21M in grants to accelerate the bioeconomy, and in there was a $2.75M grant to jumpstart a 19-university consortium called CABLE, which you’re going to hear as much about as any other topic in the bioeconomy over the next 12 months. Why? CABLE’s ambitious aim is to accelerate the entry […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced six grants totaling nearly $21.1 million to support the development of new jet fuel, biobased products and biomaterials from renewable sources. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. Today, we’re going to shine […]
Though we usually think of diversifying away from petroleum via the fuels for our cars — what about the petroleum in the tires? Rubber security, as it turns out, offers some of the same chills and thrills as energy security. The Digest investigates. “I’ll take ‘Fungi that wiped out an industry’ for $500, Alex.” “Leaf blight has […]
PanAridus was launched in 2010 with a goal to improve the genetics of the guayule (why-you-lee) seed through the biosciences of genetics and selective breeding to the point that it would be profitable for farmers to grow, which has been the primary drawback to growing an alternative source of domestic natural rubber. PanAridus has worked […]
Yulex Corporation is a technology, marketing and biomaterial product development company. The company applies seed technology, agronomics, breeding, harvesting, bioprocessing, and materials science for the development of plant-based biomaterials from the renewable, industrial crop Guayule. That’s pronounced “Y-U-Lee” for those outside its heartland in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Guayule is a distant relative […]
By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental, Biotechnology Industry Organization Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced funding for the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) as well as published the final rule for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BIO and the industrial biotech sector worked hard to ensure that these and other […]
