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10 August 20185 August 2018

New catalyst with a dual function

Plastic production with this catalyst would be sustainable and would also enable the creation of hydrogen as a potential energy source

6 August 20185 August 2018

PETRONAS Chemicals Group enters MOU with Leaf for biorefinery offtake

MOU provides among other things for a study of chemical markets and commercially ready bio-technologies

1 August 201831 July 2018

Lignocellulosic Biorefineries in Europe: Current State and Prospects

This study addresses the challenges and future opportunities of this nascent industry by elucidating key elements of the biorefining sector

24 July 2018

Biorefineries and biotechnology: The future of proteins, flavours, textiles and sustainable chemistry

New biotechnological and chemical processes enable biorefineries for the sustainable and efficient production of proteins, flavours, fibres for textiles, chemicals and plastics from different biomass

Attis Industries to Purchase Site for First Commercial Biorefinery

Facility Will Generate $35 Million in Annual Revenue

27 June 201826 June 2018

Advanced biofuels recognised as a fast-track option for transport decarbonisation – UPM Biofuels welcomes initial agreement on Renewable Energy Directive

UPM started operations at the Lappeenranta Biorefinery at the beginning of 2015

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 June 201813 June 2018

Avantium starts construction of bio-MEG demonstration plant in the Netherlands

Market demand for MEG is expected to grow from 28 million to 50 million tons in the next 20 years

13 June 201812 June 2018

Renewable Solvents Derived From Lignin Lowers Waste in Biofuel Production

New class of solvents breaks down plant biomass into sugars for biofuels and bioproducts in a closed-loop biorefinery concept

8 June 20186 June 2018

Organic is not a good hallmark of quality – this is why

The organic concept is popular and that testifies to today’s prevailing anti-technological mood. But technology has moved on

AGRIMAX: from Agricultural and Food-processing Waste to Bioproducts

How can we use agricultural and food-processing waste to create useful products for a sustainable Europe?

25 May 201818 May 2018

Green Chemistry PhD wins Excellence Award

Jesús Esteban Serrano takes 2018 EFCE Chemical Reaction Engineering award

18 May 201817 May 2018

Chempolis Seals Deal for Indian Biorefinery

Together with Finnish energy company Fortum, and Indian NRL, joint venture to construct a bamboo biorefinery in Assam

15 May 201813 May 2018

Sweetwater and Graanul Announce First Commercial Biorefinery

Collaboration aiming to build a commercial-scale integrated biorefinery that will produce clean cellulosic sugars and highly pure lignin from local hardwood

14 May 20189 May 2018

Ontario Helping to Create Jobs and Support Agri-food Sector in Sarnia

Province Partnering with Comet Biorefining to Support More Than 200 Jobs in Sarnia

Metsä Group launches a prefeasibility study on renewal of Kemi pulp mill

Prefeasibility study to examine in particular the availability of wood raw material and the potential of Kemi's industrial infrastructure and logistic connections

BioAmber files for Bankruptcy

Filings will impose an automatic stay of proceedings to protect the company, its subsidiaries and their assets from creditors

4 May 20183 May 2018

Turning Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from duty into opportunity

Targets of the EIA procedure is to engage local people to a project and receive general acceptance

2 May 201828 April 2018

UPM Biofuels gains the world’s first RSB low indirect land use change (ILUC) risk certification for its feedstocks

RSB is one of the world's most trusted, valued and peer-reviewed standards for biomaterials, one of the European Commission's approved voluntary schemes

17 April 201813 April 2018

VIDEO: Audi test drives renewable gasoline derived from bio-isobutene

Audi and Global Bioenergies recently announced a milestone test for a renewable gasoline blend called “e-benzin”

22 March 201820 March 2018

Better solvents = better biomass conversion for biofuels and bioproducts

Better use of solvents could improve the economics of biorefineries

6 March 201829 April 2019

Breakthrough technologies for a sustainable mushroom industry

New biorefinery project to recover used mushroom compost is now halfway to success

1 March 201827 February 2018

Butanol from forest waste: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to advanced fermentation of AVAP sugars

American Process CEO Theodora Retsina gave this illuminating overview of the project’s promise and progress at the DOE Peer Review Meetings

28 February 201823 February 2018

Former Ineos Bio site purchased for conversion into eco-district

The projection of renewable fuels and electricity from biogas may be part of the planned eco-district in the future

16 February 201814 February 2018

Biorefineries: Our Synthetic Biology Future

Bob Kodrzycki from Lee Enterprises Consulting – Special to The Digest

15 February 201815 February 2018

Bioeconomy: A global trend?

More work is needed to realize bioeconomy's potential as a climate solution

9 February 20189 February 2018

UPM to build the world’s first biorefinery producing wood-based biodiesel

New facility to produce annually approximately 100,000 tonnes of advanced second generation biodiesel for transport

8 February 20186 February 2018

Advanced Biofuels: Now? Later? Never?

By Terry J. Mazanec, PhD, Lee Enterprises Consulting - Special to The Digest

2 February 20181 February 2018

Glanbia Ingredients to spearhead €30m European whey research project

AgriChemWhey project will build a first-of-a-kind industrial-scale biorefinery with integrated symbiotic industrial and agricultural value chains

29 January 201825 January 2018

Seaweed biorefinery: much work, high hopes

The aim is to find fractionation methods that are sufficiently effective, yet gentle too – as seaweed biorefinery opportunities keep on expanding

26 January 201819 January 2018

Alkol BioTech to supply cane feedstock to BRD

The first crop it is developing is EUnergyCane, a sugarcane variety

19 January 201817 January 2018

Is energy from woody biomass positive for the climate?

Primary forest sector aim is to produce high value products, such as sawnwood and wood panels, or pulp and paper

18 January 20189 September 2021

Affordable, green hydrogen — it is here, near, or nowhere in sight (again)?

20MW water electrolysis unit in Delfzijl, Netherlands, to convert sustainably produced electricity into 3,000 tons of green hydrogen a year

16 January 201812 January 2018

Alkol Biotech agrees to supply 500,000 tonnes of biomass to Europe’s ‘largest’ biorefinery

Reliable and competitive biomass source will mean less costs in pre- and post-processing, and thus cost-effective renewable chemical building blocks

11 January 20189 January 2018

Enabling Commercial Scale Biorefineries in Europe

Lignocellulosic feedstock will soon become a key strategic resource for chemical intermediates

10 January 20188 January 2018

Irish Bioeconomy Foundation Receives Enterprise Ireland Funding to Develop a New Bioeconomy Innovation and Piloting Facility

New plant to enable industry, entrepreneurs and researchers to scale technologies for converting Ireland’s natural resources to high value products

8 January 20187 January 2018

Alkol Biotech and BRD, the commercialization partner in the BIOFOREVER Consortium, sign a LOI for sustainable biomass sourcing in Europe

UK based company is able to provide European-grown canes to any biotechnology project in the continent

Notes from Scaleville: the Global Bioenergies, Gevo and Siluria stories

New applications for biotechnology in some ancient and ossified markets such as jet fuel, C3 chemicals and gasoline

19 December 201715 December 2017

Neste to boost biofuel production by 1m tonnes with opening of Singapore refinery

Company to increase its capacity for renewable diesel, aviation fuel and raw materials for various biochemical uses

5 December 20171 December 2017

Natural oil metathesis: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Elevance Renewable Sciences

Elevance’s Frederyk Ngantung gave this illuminating update on Elevance’s progress and promise at ABLC Next in San Francisco

1 December 201729 November 2017

UTIA awarded FAA grant to analyze biorefinery supply chains

Alternative jet fuels could grow opportunities in the southeast

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

6 November 201730 October 2017

Positive result from feasibility study ”Flagship Biorefinery”

Pöyry presented a feasibility study which shows, that an investment in the proposed biorefinery can be profitable and provide positive contributions to a future bioeconomy

3 November 201715 February 2018

Metsä Group’s bioproduct mill inaugurated in Äänekoski

With a cost of EUR 1.2 billion, mill is the largest investment in the history of the Finnish forest industry

2 November 201727 October 2017

UPM moves forward in sustainable biochemicals business

New, planned industrial scale biorefinery would convert wood into bio-monoethylene glycol (bMEG), bio-monopropylene glycol (bMPG) and lignin up to 150,000 metric tons per year

30 October 201726 October 2017

Novel and Bio-based Chemicals: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Elevance

Here’s a recent slide deck from Elevance on Novel and Bio-based Chemicals Enabled by Natural Oil Metathesis

6 September 20174 September 2017

Kempen Insect Valley officially launched

The ‘Insect Pilot Plant’ aims to upscale from lab to a pilot plant for rearing, processing and biorefinery of insects to make the transition to industrial production

25 August 201715 February 2018

Metsä Group started up its bioproduct mill

Pulp deliveries from the new mill to customers will begin in early September 2017

23 August 201721 August 2017

Let’s talk sugar: Advanced enzymes increase ethanol yields, plant profits

Trehalase products, developed from proven technology and easily implementable, convert sugar that would otherwise be wasted

16 August 201714 August 2017

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