31 July 2012 Amyris Enhances Strategic Partnership With Total for Renewable Diesel and Jet Fuels Total to Provide Up to $82M in Incremental Funding for Amyris Biofene® Development Program
10 July 2012 Elevance Renewable Sciences Raises $104 Million in Series E Financing Company announces strategic growth plans for Asia, North and South America
25 May 2012 Galactic to develop third generation Lactic acid from Algae with “ECLIPSE” Project 'Waste' from the biodiesel process as raw material appears to be high interesting option
19 January 2012 Initiative “Bio-Economy” gewinnt Spitzenclusterwettbewerb Produktion von bio-basierten Kunststoffe steigt jährlich um mehr als 20 Prozent
30 November 2011 Total and Amyris Partner to Produce Renewable Fuels Total and Amyris strategic partnership expanded to accelerate development and marketing of renewable fuels
25 May 2011 Berlin is the meeting point for European process engineers and biotechnologists 8th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and the 1st European Congress of Applied Biotechnology in September
10 March 2011 Total Petrochemicals, IFP Energies nouvelles and Axens to co-develop bio-ethylene production technology by dehydration of ethanol New technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-ethylene from renewable resources
21 December 2010 Elevance Renewable Sciences to spend $100M infusion on world’s biggest biorefinery The Indonesian plant is scheduled to begin production by the end of 2011
3 December 2009 Futerro starts up its PLA demo unit in Belgium Demo plant with 1,500 jato for testing and improving PLA production on sugarbeet
29 July 2009 European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative Forgets Bioheat EU-proposal for multi-billion-euro research programme focussing on advanced biofuels
20 October 2008 Total opens demonstration plant for (poly)olefins from methanol Coal, natural gas and biomass as raw materials for plastic materials
15 September 2008 Volkswagen: RENEW Projekt als Success Story ausgezeichnet Europäische Kommission zeichnet 40 Förderprojekte als Erfolgsstories aus