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8 November 20196 November 2019

The Top 25 Trends in the Bioeconomy

It was ABLC Week last week and it featured the international bioeconomy trends

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27 September 201922 September 2019

The Competitive Edge: Vertec BioSolvents, Inc.

Vertec BioSolvents invents, patents and manufactures solvent formulations containing biosolvents and safe alternative solvents.

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19 September 201915 September 2019

Highest Yield, Lowest Cost: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to 2nd Gen Mixotrophy for Biochemicals

Check out The Digest’s slides on how this project is working on developing and demonstrating a fermentation process to produce acetone from a cellulosic feedstock

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18 September 201915 September 2019

Biotech to Biochem: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Versalis’ Chemistry from Renewables

The Licensing Green Chemistry Manager from Versalis, gave this illuminating overview of their recent acquisitions of M&G bio activities at ABLC 2019 in Washington, D.C

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13 September 201910 September 2019

The Advanced Bioeconomy Report Q2 2019 Earnings: The Year of Living Endangeredly

In hand we now have the latest earnings reports from what you might call the 8 Pathfinders

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6 September 201931 August 2019

New Catalysts, Improved Genetic Tools Bring New Opportunities: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ORNL’s Biomass to Bioproducts

Brian Davison, Chief Scientist for Biotechnology at ORNL, gave this knowledge-filled presentation at ABLC 2019 in Washington, D.C.

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5 September 201931 August 2019

From Lignin to Value: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen’s Enzymes

Alex Michine, CEO of MetGen gave this enlightening overview of MetGen’s ‘how’, the Sweetwoods project and its integrated biorefinery flagship, and more at ABLC 2019

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4 September 201931 August 2019

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 21st

Cellulose microbeads, sequins and eyeware, 3D printed sandals and menswear, biobased adhesives, and more

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30 August 20199 September 2021

No Carbon Left Behind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

The CEO of LanzaTech gave this ‘Carbon Smart’ overview of how LanzaTech is recycling carbon from industrial off gas biomass and more at ABLC 2019

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7 August 20194 August 2019

Sayings and images from 12 years traveling on the bioeconomy road

The Digest turns 12  

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2 August 201928 July 2019

Negatonnes: Beyond the ZEV, the negative emission vehicle and its amazing hydrogen fuel and electric drive

The bio-based hydrogen has even more value than the ethanol

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31 July 201928 July 2019

The Competitive Edge: Haldor Topsoe

Haldor Topsoe is the world leader in heterogeneous catalysis and technology licensing

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23 July 20199 September 2021

Yum, yum, CO2 in my tum – NovoNutrients moves forward with CO2 to fish feed plans

NovoNutrients is moving forward towards their goal of transforming industrial waste CO₂ into feed, initially for the fast-growing aquaculture sector

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NovoNutrients gets $300K from DOE program for CO2 to feed technology

NovoNutrients will partner with the NREL to improve CFD models in order to identify efficient and productive bioreactor designs

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17 July 201914 July 2019

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 10th

Paper pen, bioasphalt, water activated bio shampoo, lignin self-healing elastomer, bio crop coating, and more

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4 July 20191 July 2019

The Competitive Edge: Carbiolice

Carbiolice is a joint-venture established in 2016 that is based on the shared and complementary ambitions of Carbios – a green chemical company  

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28 June 201927 June 2019

Renewable Polymer Plant: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium

Marcel Lubben, Managing Director of Avantium, shared the latest about their plant-based PEF and their way towards the flagship plant and licensing busines

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9 May 20196 May 2019

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of May 1st

Tequila-waste straws, blood-based sneakers, green burials, spider silk athletic apparel, 3D printed heart, water-filled seaweed spheres, and more

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30 April 201928 April 2019

Circular economies, from California to Sweden: Neste’s wheeling, rolling, moving, flowing

In California, waste feedstock from the city of Oakland is now being converted to Neste MY Renewable Diesel and fuels the city’s fleet

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25 April 201923 April 2019

Queensland’s quest for a circular bioeconomy

We look at Queensland, Australia – the innovators, the leaders, the investors

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24 April 201923 April 2019

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 12th

Coffee without the coffee bean, bioplastic burial pods, fruit and algae clothing, soy straws, and more

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18 April 201915 April 2019

The Competitive Edge: AVA Biochem AG

5-HMF is a building block for many chemicals such as FDCA/FDME which will be used for PEF and other bioplasics

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12 April 201911 April 2019

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 8th

Food and drink packaging from seaweed and animal hides, beer six-pack rings, mouse ears for humans, vehicle pigments, carbon fiber for building materials, hempcrete, and more

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21 February 201917 February 2019

Greener alternative to PET, olive pit bioplastic, Dupont and NIPI new insulation, biobased Mardi Gras beads and more

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of February 15th

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13 February 20196 February 2019

No Carbon Left Behind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, gave this illuminating overview at ABLC Global 2018 in San Francisco

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11 February 20196 February 2019

Green guns, poop plastic, kenaf cars, wildflower jacket insulation, leaf extracts that fight blue light damage and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 30th

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace – here are the top innovations for the week of January 30th

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28 January 201920 January 2019

Christmas trees to paint and sweeteners, newly discovered protein, hemp beard oils, potato waste fiberboard, biobased outdoor apparel and cosmetics, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 10th

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of January 10th

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25 January 201920 January 2019

Top 10 Bioeconomy Markets and Predictions for 2019

As the sunset of 2018 gives way to the dawn of 2019, once again roll the dice as we list the Digest’s 10 Top Advanced Bioeconomy Markets & Predictions for 2019

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21 December 201820 December 2018

Fast Pyrolysis Technology: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Biomass Technology Group

Bert van de Beld from BTG gave this illuminating overview of their fast pyrolysis technology and commercial scale demo plant

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20 December 201819 December 2018

Biobased beer can rings, algae and bugs, chitin-based plastic breakthrough, gribble gut enzymes, banana-based products: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 14th

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace – here are the top innovations for the week of December 14th

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18 December 201815 December 2018

The Bioeconomy 2019: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Bioeconomy Development Priorities

The Iowa Economic Development Authority took a look at development priorities in an opening morning presentation at ABLC Global 2018 in San Francisco

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11 December 20189 December 2018

Coffee sunglasses, cotton biofuel cells, evolving yeasts, biobased boat stickers, microalgae chemicals, potato plastic, bioplastic shoes: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 5th

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of December 5th

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4 December 20183 December 2018

Algae ‘blooms’ in automotive industry

So why is algae living it up lately? It’s all about research and getting further down the path step by step with each discovery

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14 November 201813 November 2018

From oil refinery to biorefinery: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the BIO-CCUS project

Concept of converting Oil Refinery to Biorefinery

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19 October 201816 October 2018

Scaling up biobased BTX: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech

Anellotech CEO David Sudolsky gave this illuminating overview of the technology’s progress and promise as part of The Early Stage webinar series

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18 October 201816 October 2018

Biorefinery Monitoring: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Materials Flows & Assessment

A group led by the Danish Institute of Market Analysis gave this overview of a bioeconomy monitoring system, as part of a IEA Bioenergy Task 43 workshop

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17 October 201816 October 2018

Canadian Marijuana Legalization Day – Can Pot Save Synthetic Biology From the Next Biotechnology Crater?

This represents a huge opportunity compared to where Synthetic Biology has been operating, i.e. commodity chemicals for industrial applications

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9 October 20188 October 2018

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of October 5th

New algae/fungi biofuels system, breakthru on sugar yields, biodegradable clothes, Beyond Burger’s monster GHG benefit, Indigo Ag’s $250M, robotic precision harvest

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8 October 20183 October 2018

Development, deployment of integrated biorefineries: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Biorefining in Italy

Isabella de Bari and Maria Teresa Petrone gave this illuminating overview of the progress and promise of thermal gasification of biomass in Germany at an IEA Bioenergy Task 42 meeting

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4 October 20183 October 2018

Thai shrimp and algae-based inks: the surprisingly tight link that you never heard of

News broke last week that Cyanotech is purchasing Cellana’s six-acre production and research facility known as the Kona Demonstration Facility

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2 October 201827 September 2018

Circular biobased economy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the Biobased Delta

Marcel van Berkel gave this illuminating overview of the Biobased Delta’s promise and progress at ABLC 2018 in Washington DC

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28 September 201828 September 2018

India rising to the top of the bioeconomy

For star-studded drawcards – it is the most glamorous national event ever held solely for the advanced bioeconomy

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27 September 201825 September 2018

Plans for Luverne: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

Gevo’s strategy is to commercialize bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based products to allow for the optimization of fermentation facilities’ assets

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25 September 201824 September 2018

Innovations: did I miss something?

A tremendous amount of research is going on around the world, resulting in many new developments. But a development doesn’t always become an innovation

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6 September 20184 September 2018

Birth of an industrial sugars giant? Sugars in focus in Leaf Resources, Petronas agreement

We hear from Australia and Malaysia that PETRONAS Chemicals Group and Leaf Resources inked a MoU for Leaf’s proposed biorefinery project in Malaysia

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4 September 20183 September 2018

Genomatica and the new road to bioeconomy innovation

We’ll commence in the country where Genomatica process technology is on view, at scale — that’s Italy

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31 August 201829 August 2018

Spit-activated biobased batteries, glow-in-the-dark trees, kombucha clothes, biobased root canals, breakthroughs in degradable plastics, straws: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 29th

Here are the top innovations in the advanced bioeconomy for the week of August 29th

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28 August 201826 August 2018

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 22nd

Reebok’s plant-based shoe, fish-free seafood, mango-based bioplastic, breakthrough plant breeding, autosteer for small farms, biosand water filters, concrete from waste

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22 August 201819 August 2018

Marine biodegradable plastics offer hope for oceans and waterways

Everywhere you turn – marine pollution is on the mind of late

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20 August 201815 August 2018

The road to biobased BTX: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech

Anellotech CEO David Sudolsky gave this illuminating overview of the technology’s progress and promise as part of The Early Stage webinar series