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Elevance Renewable Sciences: Biofuels Digest’s 2014 5-Minute Guide

February 11, 2014 | Jim Lane

Company description: Headquartered in Woodridge, Ill., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. is a high-growth specialty chemicals company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils. Using a proprietary technology called olefin metathesis at our world-scale, 180,000 MT biorefinery in Gresik, Indonesia, the company creates high-performance products for use in personal care products, detergents and cleaners, engineered […]

It’s 2014: get cracking!

January 29, 2014 | Jim Lane

Hydrotreating, catalytic cracking, pyrolysis, metathesis, supercritical, and catalytic reforming. It’s the big new wave heading for biofuels and biobased chemicals at scale. The secret word in the bioeconomy for 2014 starts with a C. Carbon? Chemicals? Cellulosic? Close, but guess again. Yep, it’s cracking. That is, breaking down the biobased feedstock with heat, pressure and […]

On the move in the bioeconomy: Elevance, Heliae, Solena, LeSage, VecoPlan

January 23, 2014 | Jim Lane

In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that it has hired Robert “Bob” Kumpf as the company’s CTO. Prior to joining Elevance, Kumpf served as Chief Operating Officer at Plextronics and previously as Chief Administrative Officer at Bayer MaterialScience. In Arizona, Heliae announced the promotion of Adrian Galvez to COO, Fred Tennant to VP of Business […]

Special Asia Biofuels Report: The Top 10 Stories of the Year, and More

December 24, 2013 | Jim Lane

Asia looks at petroleum reserves and exploration and concludes: our future is in biomass. As we wrote in 2012: “There’s only one complete region for biofuels where abundant feedstock, lack of oil & gas production, rising energy demand and supportive government policy come together — and that is Asia.” The feedstock comes in three flavors. […]

Elevance accelerates: second commercial-scale biorefinery to be operating in 2016 in Natchez

October 23, 2013 | Jim Lane

Success in Indonesia prompts traction, action in Mississippi In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that it has authorized the next significant stage of its second world-scale biorefinery in Natchez, Miss., in order to expand production of its Inherent renewable building blocks in 2016. The decision is based on the successful start-up and operation of Elevance’s […]

In the black: Advanced biofuels and chems: sizzling carbon and parity-pricing updates

September 17, 2013 | Jim Lane

Two new studies with red meat for the “biofuels are a win on carbon” crowd; while Elevance has good news for those in the “don’t care about carbon, give me parity pricing” gang For those of you with an interest in carbon economics, two fascinating studies came out this week that we’ll look at in […]

Elevance launches “cost competitive”, biobased C18 diacid

September 17, 2013 | Jim Lane

In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences announced the commercial availability of Inherent C18 Diacid — a to significantly expand their portfolios with cost-competitive products that demonstrate performance not possible from products made with more common, shorter-chain diacids. Elevance’s unique, efficient process to produce C18 diacid, also known as octadecanedioic acid or ODDA, uses materials produced from […]

Elevance Renewable Sciences: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

November 9, 2012 | Jim Lane

Address: 2501 Davey Road, Woodridge IL 60517 Year Founded: 2007 Company description: Headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. creates valued specialty chemicals from natural oils. Using a technology called olefin metathesis, the company creates high performance ingredients for use in personal care products, detergents, fuels, lubricants and other specialty chemicals markets. Major Investors […]

Are IPOs good for early-stage companies and advanced biofuels?

July 13, 2012 | Jim Lane

$104 million Elevance private financing round larger than last two IPOs; puts IPOs in focus; do the benefits outweigh the costs? Do advanced biofuels companies really need to be “thinking IPO”, industry leaders were asking this week after Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that it has raised $104 million in its Series E financing round. Lacustrine […]

Codexis, Elevance win Presidential Green Chemistry Awards

June 19, 2012 | Jim Lane

In Washington, the EPA announced that Codexis and Elevance Renewable Sciences were among the winners of this year’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. In the small-business category, Elevance was recognized for the production of high-performing, green specialty chemicals at advantageous costs. These green chemicals can be produced with less energy, significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions […]