September 2012
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BioFuel Energy idles ethanol plant
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Yields shrink due to drought And while Gevo plans to switch to producing ethanol from bio-isobutanol (check my post before this one), Colorado-based BioFuel Energy, meanwhile, has decided to idle its Fairmont, Minnesota, ethanol facility until further notice because of…
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Gevo biobutanol supply hits a snag
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While I’m looking at my emails, I saw Gevo’s announcement this week on its Luverne, Minnesota, facility update stating that the company will cut back its isobutanol production and instead will produce more ethanol. The company started its 18m gal/year…
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Weekly news roundup
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Sorry for this late post…I’m currently on vacation where I’m not supposed to touch a laptop. Nobody said anything about an Ipad ha! Here are this week’s news roundup. By the way, guess where I am this week? 😉 Renmatix…
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Bio-based Polyurethanes on the rise
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Sorry for the silence today as I’ve been reprimanded to study more and blog less. But I guess I’m really addicted to blogging so let me sneak in this short post about my second to the last article that I…
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OPXBio acrylic acid update
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Here’s a slide presentation from OPX Biotechnologies presented at a biobased chemicals conference in San Francisco last week. The company said (in its blog) that it is now ready to scale up its 3,000 liter fermentation capacity to in the…
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European Bioeconomy: Where is it now?
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Ok, so I’m bummed out by my test score last night that I’m just going to sulk for awhile and watch videos. Actually here is a cool video (even though I don’t understand Dutch) that I retweeted from @biobasedchem about…
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Growing green auto partnerships
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The blog will be quiet on Tuesday and Wednesday as I study for my first school exam. Now I remember why I haven’t been actively looking for a job! Keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be graduating by December. In…