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
25 May 2012 Butanol hits the biofuels big-time Isobutanol as a starting point for synthesizing more complicated chemicals
1 February 2012 Gevo, Butamax patent saga continues Butamax says Gevo’s patent infringement allegations are "unfounded”