10 hot companies, 10 hot slides explaining where they are, what they’re up to, and where they are going, and when and how and why. Here are new slides from the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference – ABLC Next 2014, as presented in San Francisco. We found these super-hot because they essayed three topics very much on […]
If you’ve been to Missoula of late, you’ll note that there’s a bit of an innovation corridor building up in what insiders have known for a long time as one of the really great college towns in the country. A couple of years ago, the combination of a great lifestyle and a highly promising technology […]
As ABLC completes its second day, companies, agencies, financiers step forward to detail advances toward scale, new programs. In Washington, more than 35 companies came under the microscope as delegates at ABLC, the annual bioeconomy leadership conference which continues through Wednesday with more than 100 speakers on the agenda, moved from policy considerations to a […]
In Montana, Rivertop Renewables has announced that it has raised $26 million from Cargill, First Green Partners and existing investors. Rivertop’s new partners represent world-class leaders in agriculture, finance and industrial products. Their contributions will enable Rivertop to commence commercial production of a new class of high-performance chemicals targeted at consumer product and industrial markets.
Rivertop to commercialize its novel, sustainable chemicals for consumer products and industrial applications. How does an early-stager get to the next level? Try a hot anchor product, innovative technology, and the right connections. In Montana, Rivertop Renewables, a Montana-based producer of novel chemicals derived from natural plant sugars, announced that it has raised $26 million in […]
Rivertop Renewables has developed a scalable, green chemistry route to glucaric acid and other novel chemicals from renewable resources. These renewable chemicals can improve the performance and sustainability profile of end products while reducing customers’ total cost of formulation. Rankings: 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals: #28, 2013/14 Model: Technology licensor. The Situation: Rivertop Renewables announced […]
By Mike Knauf CEO, Rivertop Renewables Henry Ford is reported to have once said “If I asked my customers what they want, they simply would have said a faster horse.” Think of the incredible innovations we would have missed out on if Ford had simply created a “drop-in replacement” for the horse. I see a […]
In Montana, Rivertop Renewables announced it has successfully scaled its patented process technology from the lab to pilot manufacturing. Rivertop has contracted with DTI, a custom manufacturer of fine and specialty chemical products based in Danville, Virginia, to pilot the manufacture of Rivertop’s sustainable, high performing, cost-competitive, glucarate-based products. Commencing in February 2012, Rivertop’s pilot manufacturing […]
In Montana, Rivertop Renewables has been awarded a contract from the Montana Department of Transportation to supply 110,000 gallons of bio-based corrosion inhibitor for use with liquid deicers on the state’s snowy and icy roads this winter. Rivertop’s “Headwaters” inhibitor will be mixed with MDT’s salt brine deicers to prevent the corrosion of bridges and […]
Advanced Biofuels & Chemicals Project Database; 207 projects now tracked; 79 project updates, 27 countries in this November 2011 release; free download. In Florida, Biofuels Digest is reporting that global advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals capacity will reach 5.11 billion gallons by 2015, up from 4.37 billion reported in May, and 3.95 billion gallons reported […]
