In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT. As the competition enters its final three days of voting, POET-DSM has retaken the lead for processing systems and services and Waste Management is making a move in Feedstocks (gases and residues). Voting is […]
In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT. In the bio-based world, that means partners, and plenty of them. Who are the best? Who’s the hottest? That’s what the Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-based Products rankings are all about. Voting is open to all […]
In Texas, Waste Management and Renmatix announced they have entered into a joint development agreement to explore the feasibility of converting post-consumer waste into affordable, sufficient-quality sugars for manufacturing biobased materials. In addition, WM has joined global chemical giant BASF and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Renmatix’s Series C raise, now totaling $75M. The strategic investment and alliance […]
In Texas, Waste Management has awarded its annual $100,000 Think Green prize in the Rice University Business Plan Competition to Mimas, an Illinois-based start-up that develops advanced nanomaterials from plastic waste. Mimas manufactures a suite of low-cost, high performance particles and carbon nanotubes using everyday post-consumer plastic waste, like the plastic bags you find in […]
Early voting is underway in the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-Based Products rankings. Among the category leaders in the early going: Green Plains Renewable Energy, Harris Group, Novozymes, Solazyme, Waste Management, Khosla Ventures, the USDA, POET-DSM, Mintz Levin, Stoel Rives and Wilson Sonsini, Albemarle, BASF and Koch, Gevo and UOP, Ford, MBI, the […]
Waste Management steps up with another investment in advanced biofuels from MSW. This time, the IPO-bound Fulcrum Bioenergy. Decks now cleared for Fulcrum’s first commercial project? Smooth sailing ahead for the IPO? In Texas, Waste Management announced that it has closed an equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy. In connection with this investment, WM agreed to […]
In Texas, Waste Management has taken an equity position in InEnTec by exchanging its equity interest in S4 Energy Solutions, for an equity position in InEnTec. S4 was formed by the two companies in 2009 to design, construct and operate a waste gasification plant using InEntec’s Plasma Enhanced Melter technology. The technology converts waste into […]
Background: This is a second round, Central Regional match-up between #2 seed Virent and #7 seed Waste Management, in 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 […]
Background: This is a first round, Central Regional match-up between #7 seed Waste Management and #10 seed Dow Chemical in 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 […]
In Texas, Waste Management announced a strategic investment in Agnion Energy, to advance Agnion’s small-scale allothermal gasification technology. Waste Management joins other investors in Agnion including, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. Agnion’s innovative allothermal gasification technology converts solid biomass feedstock into a high hydrogen and carbon monoxide-rich synthetic gas (syngas) […]
