News Roundup
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Qteros back from the ashes
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Remember cellulosic ethanol developer Qteros (formerly Sun Ethanol), which shuttered its operations last year in April, and auctioned off its pilot biofuels manufacturing facility in Chicopee, Massachusetts? The company’s technology called Q Microbe developed by the University of Massachusetts Amherst…
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Updates: Verdezyne, Purac, Dow
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Hello blog readers. As you probably noticed by now, I have been absent lately from posting because of a very good reason. As of this week, I now possessed dual degrees — Chemical Engineering and Nursing — and I am…
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Feedstock News Roundup
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I don’t usually focus on feedstock but here are some interesting announcements and market studies that might be of interest…I have to do some draft box cleaning up before the New Year begins! DOE finds gene for xylan extraction Researchers…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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I have not been following the biofuel market for some time but there are definitely still a lot of investment activities going on despite the regulatory/subsidy challenges especially in the US and in Europe. Here in the US, the uncertainty…
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December News Roundup
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Playing catch-up after two weeks. Round-up for biofuels will be posted separately. I seem to be seeing several companies that I have not heard before in recent months — that’s a good sign I think. I hope you all had…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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The blog decided to separate the biofuel news from the weekly roundup as there are too many of them and its piling up quickly. Current activities going on in the biofuel industry is the wait-and-watch mode for the much anticipated…
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Weekly News Roundup
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So many news, so little time…. Dow, Mitsui secures JV approval Dow Chemical and Mitsui & Co. have completed the formation of its previously announced 50:50 JV in Brazil. The JV will operate a sugarcane plantation, build a 63m gal/year…