In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Coskata has landed the top seed for the East Region, in its Transformative Technologies 2011 Knock-out Tournament. KiOR landed the #2 seed, following completion of its IPO earlier this summer, while Mascoma and Qteros landed the third and fourth seeds, respectively. This year’s competition will feature 64 organizations in […]
In Massachussets, Qteros and the University of Massachusetts Amherst announced two intellectual property (IP) advances that extend the patent estate for their unique ethanol-producing microorganism, Clostridium phytofermentans, also known as the Q Microbe. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued US Patent 7,943,363 B2 covering genetic constructs of Clostridium phytofermentans. This patent is significant […]
You may have noticed that a number of biotechnology companies in the biofuels arena have been changing their names in recent years? Here’s the list: Cobalt Biofuels to Cobalt Technologies (2010) – the full story. Bluefire Ethanol to Bluefire Renewables (2010) – the full story. Blue Marble Algae to Blue Marble Biomaterials (201) – the […]
In Massachusetts, Qteros is offering biofuel start-up companies about 2/3 of its new 15,000 square foot fermentation facility in Chicopee in order to help incubate local businesses that might be lured out of state. Qteros CEO John McCarthy said he was in discussion with ‘six or seven’ interested companies as well as with state officials […]
In Massachusetts, Qteros received a positive review from Raymond James energy analyst Pavel Molchanov, in which the advanced biofuels company was compared to three newly-public advanced bhifuels companies, Amyris, Codexis, and Gevo. “Qteros, for example, achieved a total cash production cost of $2.40/gal last year,” writes Molchanov, “and is targeting $1.50/gal by mid-2011 and $1.00/gal […]
6. Right up there with “bunnies from biofuels” in the ewe factor, was this R&D advance reported by Applied Clean Tech and Qteros, which reported the development of high yield ethanol opportunities with liquid solid waste. The companies said they are the first to demonstrate commercial success in creating ethanol from the cellulose in municipal […]
In Massachusetts, Qteros has been gaining heavy support in the Transformative Technologies poll – far more than you get from marshaling all the friends, Romans and countrymen associated with a 50-person, early-stage company in the business of consolidated bioprocessing. In fact, I remarked to Qteros CEO John McCarthy that, had the company been renamed QAlgae, […]
