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New partnership deals
The blog has been a bit late delivering fresh news lately but hopefully our extra content is good enough compensation. Early this week, Italian chemical company Versalis announced its partnership with Yulex, a US company that has developed a guayule plant-based biomaterials. The companies plan to manufacture guayule-based biorubber materials and will build an industrial … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACELS9 looks for commercialization partnership
I had the pleasure of briefly speaking to LS9’s new CEO Tjerk de Ruiter this week and I was pleasantly surprised that he remembered this newbie “green” reporter back in 2008 when I interviewed him about Genencor’s bio-isoprene and biofuel projects. If readers recall last week, the blog posted about LS9’s announcement of De Ruiter’s … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEOleochemical updates
This post is long overdue but fortunately I will be able to use some of the information here for my incoming presentation at the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils (PBIO) Workshop to be held on March 6-7 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Some of the blog’s readers have known my work in the oleochemicals and industrial oils markets since … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACELS9 continues on with new CEO
I received several inquiries today regarding the rumor that came out from Biofuel Digest this morning that San Francisco-based LS9 was possibly closing down with staff going to being laid off. Tjerk De Ruiter Unfortunately, I was traveling throughout the day and unable to contact LS9 until this afternoon when I saw the company’s recent … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACENatureWorks starts Asia expansion plans
It has been quite a while since the blog had an update about NatureWorks’ plans for its polylactic acid (PLA) expansion in Thailand ever since PTT Global Chemical announced the completion of its 50% stake acquisition of NatureWorks in June last year which was worth $150m. Actually, NatureWorks still did not formally announce on its … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBiofuel News Roundup
BIOX resumes biodiesel production Canada-based BIOX Corp. has resumed biodiesel production at its Hamilton, Ontario, facility after temporarily suspending operation last October. The company stated improvements in US biodiesel market and confidence in market outlook as reasons for resuming production. The facility has 67m liters/year of biodiesel production capacity. Electrawinds starts biodiesel operations Belgian green … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEWeekly News Roundup
I have so many updates to post but I’ll start with our Weekly News Roundup which was supposed to have come out yesterday but I got distracted with my planned participation at the Plant-based Bio-Industrial Oils (PBIO) conference to be held in March, and my recent announced media partnership with Green Power conferences organizers. Oh … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBNDES invests $294m in GraalBio
This is all over the news today as Brazilian development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES) announced yesterday another hundred million dollars loan approval this time with Brazilian cellulosic biomass technology developer GraalBio following another announcement last week on approving a $120m loan for the Solazyme Bunge joint venture. BNDES said its … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACE2013 New Biofuels Reports
Two new reports just came out for this year covering biofuels. This first one about the sustainability challenge concerning global biofuels is from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). FAO released a report that addresses core issue of the sustainability (economic, environmental, social) of biofuels and related feedstocks worldwide. It … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEMore green funding comes in
I think this is a good sign that various governments, banks and investors are putting in more cash and loans this month for biofuel /renewable chemical activities (see earlier post on the funding prospects for 2013). This week, Solazyme’s joint venture company, Solazyme Bunge Renewable Oils has received loan approval of around $120m from the … Continue reading
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