Investments
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Total invests in cellulosic sugar developer, Renmatix
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US cellulosic sugar developer, Renmatix, signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with Total and will also receive funding from the New Energies Division of Total. Under the agreement, Renmatix and Total will utilize Renmatix’s proprietary Plantrose process with specific feedstocks to…
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Amyris expands into biopharma
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Maybe biopharma is a better bet these days than industrial renewable chemicals (especially drop-ins) with Codexis seems to be thriving on its new biopharma ground after leaving the biofuels and renewable chems market, and Amyris recently launched its”uPharm (microPharm) Discovery…
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BioAmber Reports Earnings Results
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It is 2am in the morning and when I can’t sleep, that means it is time to blog. BioAmber released its 4Q and Full Year 2014 financial results yesterday reporting construction progress and on budget for its 30 ktpa bio-succinic…
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Gevo earnings call anticipation
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If you read some of the message boards about the Gevo stocks, you can see questions hanging in the air on where this company is heading this year as investors anticipate Gevo’s announcement of its 4Q and 2014 annual financial results…
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Fundings 1Q 2015
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Several news just came in yesterday and the blog is still catching up from interviews made the past 4-5 weeks. I am hoping to soon post articles about the starch market, the world of enzymes, biotech-based surfactants, updates on levulinic…
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Solazyme still faces production challenges at Moema
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I wonder how long the petrochemical industry had perfected its processing technologies before it was able to reach an economical, efficient level? Unfortunately, investors today are not too forgiving when new, untested technologies from public companies are facing commercialization challenges….
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Global Bioenergies hits bio-methacrylic acid milestone
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So while the bio-acrylic acid development and commercialization seem to have stalled a bit (see my recent post), France-based Global Bioenergies announced that it has reached its first milestone in the development of bio-based methacrylic acid (trademarked under BioMA+) using…