Company initiatives
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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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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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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…
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Advanced Biofuels Capacity update
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I am still in the “capacity news” mode so I’ll post this press release from BIO last month covering their recent Roundtable discussion regarding capacity progress from several advanced biofuels companies. BIO and its US biofuels members have been fighting…
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Green blog capacity news
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Here are some of the recent capacity updates that the blog came across in the past week. We will start with LS9 which announced this week the successful start-up of its fatty alcohol production in the company’s 135,000 liter-scale demonstration…