Company initiatives
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Proterro, Bunge in sugar pilot study
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Biofeedstock company Proterro and Bunge Global Innovation, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of global agribusiness and food company Bunge Limited (Bunge), will conduct a pilot study of Proterro’s sucrose-production technology in Brazil. Under a joint development agreement, a pilot plant is being commissioned at Bunge’s Moema Fazenda sugarcane mill, where two of Proterro’s photobioreactors have…
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Tire manufacturers in natural rubber R&D milestones
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Bridgestone Americas announced the grand opening of its Biorubber Process Research Center in Mesa, Arizona. The 10-acre research and innovation campus is the center of Bridgestone’s efforts to extract natural rubber from guayule, a shrub native to the southwestern U.S. Bridgestone said it expects to have preliminary guayule rubber samples produced at the Biorubber Process Research…
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IncBio to supply biodiesel plant in Greece
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IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company, who specializes in state of the art fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has signed a contract with SPA Renewables S.A, to supply an 8,000 ton/year biodiesel plant, to be installed in Corinth, Greece.This plant will use IncBio’s ultrasonic reactors to produce EN14214 Biodiesel from Used Cooking Oil UCO, collected…
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Pacific Ethanol Sells CO2
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Pacific Ethanol, Inc. announced its agreement with Kodiak Carbonic, LLC to sell CO2 from the Pacific Ethanol Columbia plant located in Boardman, Oregon. Kodiak plans to construct a liquefaction and dry ice processing plant adjacent to the Columbia facility and expects to purchase up to 200 tons of CO2 per day to sell to food…
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Bio-acrylic acid development milestones
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Hello blog readers. I just came back from China and will fly tomorrow to St. Charles, Illinois, to give a presentation at Roquette’s Green Chemistry & Fermentation symposium. I will be tweeting via @DGreenblogger on Sept. 16-17 under the hashtag #Roquette. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I am over my jetlag by then.…
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POET-DSM starts cellulosic ethanol plant
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The biofuels world has been been abuzzed recently with the grand opening of POET-DSM’s cellulosic ethanol plant, dubbed Project Liberty, which is considered the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US to use corn waste as a feedstock. The 20 million gallons/year plant (expandable to 25 mgpy) located in Emmetsburg, Iowa, has now officially…
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Renewable Chemical Sustainability Survey
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Hello from China! I am attending the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference (CPCIC) this week in Tianjin and will give a short presentation about bio-based chemicals commercialization as well as moderate a panel of speakers on September 12. Unfortunately, twitter is not working here in China (as well as Facebook and Google) and therefore,…