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Proterro reaches sugar-making milestones
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Proterro said it has reached its Q1 sugar-production pilot milestones in four months of continuous operation at its pilot plant in Orlando, Florida, and reported that it has consistently saw no contamination effect on productivity. In February, Proterro announced that the USPTO had issued a notice of allowance for a patent protecting the novel photobioreactor,…
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Brazilian Industrial Biotech Association (ABBI) launched
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Companies that include Amyris, BASF, BioChemtex, BP, Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, Dow Chemical, DSM, DuPont, GranBio, Novozymes, Raizen and Rhodia have joined forces to form the Brazilian Industrial Biotechnology Association (Associação Brasileira de Biotecnologia Industrial or ABBI) with a primary objective of fostering a dialogue within Brazilian society about the advancements of industrial biotechnology in…
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P2 Science bags $500,000 funding
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Connecticut Innovations (CI), an organization that helps Connecticut businesses grow through creative financing and strategic assistance, has made a $500,000 investment in P2 Science Inc. of New Haven, Conn., through its Eli Whitney Equity Fund. This investment was part of a $1 million Series A funding round also involving Elm Street Ventures. In 2013, CI…
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Location, location, location
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Here are recent announcements on new headquarters and new R&D sites. LanzaTech, for one, has finally decided to move its global headquarters from New Zealand, where the company was founded, to Skokie, Illinois. The move will generate 30 new Illinois jobs with employees transferred from New Zealand, and 35 additional employees will move from Roselle,…
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CO2 Solutions in carbon capture pilot plant
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CO2 Solutions Inc. has entered into a collaboration agreement with Husky Energy, where CO2 Solutions will install and operate a pilot unit capturing approximately 15 tonnes of CO2 per day at Husky’s Pikes Peak South, Saskatchewan heavy oil site on a once-through steam generator. Operation of the pilot unit is expected to commence in early 2015…
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Technip to construct Cargill’s new ethanol plant
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Technip was awarded a contract comprising detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for the core process units of Cargill’s new ethanol production plant located in Barby, Germany. The production units will be built on a green field site alongside Cargill’s existing wheat processing facility. The ethanol is destined for beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry. The…
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Amyris to Begin Selling Biofene Online at Farnesene.net
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Amyris has begun selling Biofene®, Amyris’s brand of farnesene, a long-chain branched hydrocarbon, online at farnesene.net. By making initial quantities of its building block molecule available to a broader audience, Amyris seeks to expand Biofene’s use beyond the commercial applications the Company and its partners are already developing. Amyris is now selling Biofene through its…