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13 July 20229 July 2022

Sustainability accelerates with promising profit: Concept to reality bio-PET

Logistics chaos, reliable production and the need to ensure enough feedstocks to operate remains the main concern for products in the polyester chain in Europe and the US

5 October 202129 September 2021

Green Chemicals Blog Comment: Gevo acquires Butamax patent estate

Butamax Advanced Biofuels has been quiet in its bio-isobutanol activities as the company went through reorganization following DuPont’s merger with Dow

4 October 202129 September 2021

Gevo Acquires Butamax Patent Estate

The Asset Purchase Agreement provides Gevo with direct ownership and management over the entire known isobutanol patent portfolio of Butamax

14 August 201811 August 2018

The Top 10 advances in renewable butanol: what’s speeding up, where are the slow-downs?

In its isobutanol and n-butanol versions, we’ve seen numerous companies set forth on a butanol journey and we have yet to see massive commercial volumes of it

25 June 201821 June 2018

EPA Approves Registration of Isobutanol in 16% Blends in Gasoline

Gevo welcome the announcement, as it allows customers and partners a much better product performance

14 November 201710 November 2017

DowDuPont to exit cellulosic biofuels business

Company annonces long-term interest to find a strategic buyer for their technology including the Nevada, IA biorefinery

26 April 201719 April 2017

Butamax prepares for bio-isobutanol commercialization

Butamax will now start the detailed engineering work to add bio-isobutanol capacity to the facility, while continuing to produce ethanol before and after adding this capacity

7 April 20174 April 2017

BP and DuPont Joint Venture, Butamax®, Announces Next Step in Commercialization of Bio-Isobutanol with Acquisition of Ethanol Facility in Kansas

Bio-isobutanol offers both a valuable option for growing the renewable content of gasoline and a lower carbon alternative to fossil-derived isobutanol in existing chemical applications

1 September 201630 August 2016

Where’s butanol, or other substitutes for gasoline besides ethanol?

Biofuels Digest trying to find answers about why there are so few technologies and so little commercial progress on gasoline substitution, excepting ethanol

8 March 201611 March 2016

A tribute to the 8 women who have distinguished themselves in the bioeconomy in 2015

International Women’s Day

20 January 201619 January 2016

Biobased industry review 2015

NNFCC gives a track and analyse market, policy developments

13 January 201612 January 2016

Solazyme chops Roquette (again) in the Great Algae Flour Fight

After the bizarre attempted heist detailed in The Great Algae Robbery, Roquette tries the US courts but comes up short, in its quest to get a hold of Solazyme’s algae tech

11 January 201616 January 2016

That was the biobased year that was!

NNFCC takes a look at the highlights 2015

29 October 201526 October 2015

Butanol and The Case of a Global Sustainable Society

To Be, or Not to Be… By Dr Kapil S Lokare, Special to The Digest

27 August 201526 August 2015

Butamax and Gevo enter into global patent cross-license and settlement agreements

Accelerating development of markets for bio-based isobutanol and end all litigation

23 April 201521 April 2015

Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

The potrait of DuPont Industrial Bioscience

18 March 201517 March 2015

The Iowa Renaissance: The Advanced Bioeconomy is on view in Iowa

New technologies, new wealth, new jobs, falling emissions, a new energy security, bipartisanship, new hope — Communities of Progress are building. But will the presidential candidates see it?

29 January 201529 January 2015

The capacity of emerging bio-based material and chemicals technology to rise to 7.4 million metric tons in 2018

Capacity will more than triple from 2008's value, as the United States and Brazil drive capacity growth to nearly 3 million tons in the Americas alone, says Lux Research

18 December 20149 September 2021

Phytonix turns photosynthetic bacteria into tiny chemical factories

Startup Phytonix plans to use its technology to produce the chemical butanol

30 July 201429 July 2014

Lesaffre acquires Butalco: will the race for sustainable butanol ever be the same?

We look at why yeast giant Lesaffre acquired this development-stage Swiss company and its yeast enhancement technology

3 June 20142 June 2014

Butanol is better than ethanol, or isn’t it?

Unexpected contamination with bacteria at Gevo's Luverne, Minnesota plant blocking any product revenue since

28 April 201425 April 2014

Winners of the 2014 Transformative Technologies competition

LanzaTech, Cool Planet win two 2014 Transformative Awards each as winners announced in DC

25 April 201424 April 2014

ABLC buzzes about finance, government actions, chemicals, carbon, and technology advances

As ABLC completes its second day, companies, agencies, financiers step forward to detail advances toward scale, new programs.

26 February 201425 February 2014

Error in the Butamax versus Gevo fight

Federal Circuit changes claim construction in Butamax v Gevo

21 January 201420 January 2014

Butamax, Iogen, OPX Bio, Green Biologics C-Level execs commit to ABLC 2014

Addressing Building Fermentation Technologies into great companies

2 October 20134 October 2013

Butamax and Highwater Ethanol Break Ground on Biobutanol Retrofit Project

Including Installation of Novel Corn Oil Separation Technology

16 September 2013

Brazil’s Big Six in advanced biofuels & chemicals: who’s doing what now?

Who are the Big Six, and why?

21 August 20139 September 2021

4C-able future: Biobased butanol, butadiene and BDO are having a hot year

Answers to your questions about butanol, the players, and the four-carbon market

10 May 2013

Butamax and Gevo grapple with biofuels patent case claims

Gevo temporarily dismisses GIFT® lawsuit because Butamax does not have a commercial biobutanol plant

26 March 2013

Biorefinery 2015 – The Shape of advanced biofuels to come – Part II

Consideration of a number of new technologies that redefine our notions about the scope and costs

19 November 2012

Gevo Wins in Federal Appeals Court

Ruling Further Strengthens Gevo’s Position Versus Butamax in Patent Dispute

24 October 2012

The Greening of Dupont

The shift from fossil-based to biobased is paying dividends at Dupont

5 October 2012

Solazyme maintains lead in early Hot 50 voting

Amyris, LanzaTech, Sapphire Energy make a move

25 September 2012

Butamax awarded new patent

Butamax Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio with Innovative Biofuel Patent

13 August 2012

Gevo Wins Stay in Federal Court of Appeals Freeing It to Sell into Any Market

Butamax's Attempts To Hinder Gevo with Legal Maneuvers Fail Again

21 June 2012

Gevo win court battle over Butamax

Butamax denied preliminary injunction in long standing court case with Gevo over enzymes used to make isobutanol, a drop-in biofuel and biochemical compound

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