News Roundup
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Biofuel, Biorefinery, Company initiatives, Energy, Feedstock, Government, Investments, News Roundup, PartnershipExpanding cellulosic ethanol production worldwide
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It felt like everybody was in a group hug when I attended a biofuel panel discussion at the recently-held World Bio Markets USA with POET-DSM, GranBio and Abengoa Bioenergy in attendance. Abengoa had its grand opening celebration last month with its new 25 mgpy cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kansas. The facility is expected to…
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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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Malaysia palm activities updates
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Hello from a hazy/cloudy Kuala Lumpur where the palm and lauric oils industry congregates for this year’s annual conference. This is my first time attending this event, where most of the presentations will start tomorrow. I will tweet some of them via @Dgreenblogger using #POC2014. In the meantime, as I take my break in between…
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January News Roundup
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It’s Superbowl Sunday and I got bored so back to blogging (36-0 Seahawks at this point). Anyway, I just confirmed last week that I will be attending the Palm and Lauric Oils Conference (POC) in Kuala Lumpur on March 3-5, so for those who will be attending, let me know if you want to meet.…
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Cellulosic biofuels projects still on track
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The blog has not been able to post most of the biofuel announcements in the past three months, unfortunately, as most of the blog’s focus is now on renewable chemicals instead. However, you can visit the blog’s home page where I will post updated compiled newsfeed of biofuel announcements each month. For now, it seems…
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Private investors coming back?
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Covering the renewable chemicals sector for the past several years, I’ve noticed that many of the investment announcements seem to increased usually in December, when I guess, private investors are more mellow and in a gift-giving mood. Here are some recent announcements: Infinity Group, a cross-border, private equity platform has invested $4.2m in green biotech…
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A New Year Greetings (and news)
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Happy New Year!! The blog had a great first year on its new platform and according to WordPress, it was viewed at about 160,000 times in 2013 leading to a total of 183,000 times since the blog’s start-up in September 2012. In 2013, there were 313 new posts, growing the total archive of the blog…