Monday, July 18, 2011

We're Moving!

Dear Readers,

We've moved!

Effective immediately, please visit our new home at BioConomy


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

News In Brief, Wednesday July 14th, 2011

Big Build in Brazil.
LS9 announces plans to build Brazil’s largest bio-fuels and bio-chemicals plant, and continues its synthetic hydrocarbon research partnership with Chevron.  

Florida-based Petroalgae finds a Shell.
Petroalgae and CRI Catalyst Company LP (part of the Shell group) establish a partnership to provide feedstocks for drop-in fuels.  

OriginOil gets more green: capital, not algae (they’ve got plenty of that)
A little under a year after its first CO2 to algae deal with Australian company MBD Energy Limited was announced, Californian algae producer Origin Oil gets its first round of institutional financing.  

AGQM grants “no harm” status to IFT’s bio-diesel additives (no word yet on Col. Klink’s violin-playing). 
The Association for the Quality of Bio-diesel (AGQM) a German bio-diesel quality assurance organization (and whose standards are among the most respected worldwide in the bio-diesel community)  grants “No-Harm and Efficiency” certification status to International Fuel Technologies' bio-diesel additives.

The French Connection
Global Bioenergies, a French synthetic biology company, gets and additional  €475,000 ($673,645) from the French innovation agency OSEO, just a month after closing a successful IPO on the NSYE Alternext stock market.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

News in Brief, Tuesday July 12th 2011


Talk about a hot deal 

Chesapeake Energy makes a $155 million dollar investment in Sundrop Fuels, Inc., an advanced biofuels manufacturer that uses ultra-high temperature radiation to convert biomass to syngas almost instantaneously.

Chesapeake again (this time, the bay)

AE Biofuels acquires Zymetis, an industrial biotech company from Maryland with magic bug patents (the organism is from the Chesapeake Bay).

Another man’s trash

A joint venture between GreenStar Recycling and Vadxx Energy will produce renewable crude oil from discarded plastics.

The BeNefits of working together

Solvay and Avantium announce a collaboration to produce renewable green plastics.

Talking turkey

Cereplast expands the reach of its resins in Europe through a distribution deal with Polimernet Plastik, a major Turkish plastics manufacturer.

Sweet scale-up

Codexis announces the successful scale-up to commercial quantities of its proprietary cellulase enzymes, which will be used to sustainably generate the sugars needed for bio-products of all kinds. 

Monday, July 11, 2011

News In Brief, Monday July 11th, 2011



President Obama fields questions from Twitter about renewable energy and biofuels during a town hall meeting in the Heartland.


POET gets an offer from the federal government for a $105 million loan guarantee.

Dutch company Avantium and Belgian company Solvay announce collaboration to develop green plastics.

Renewable Fuels Association’s letter to Obama: The ethanol industry is innovating and expanding beyond fuels to include animal feeds and most notably feedstocks for bio-based chemicals.

OPX Biotechnologies raises $36.5 million in investment capital to produce BioAcrylic, the company’s first renewable chemical, which will be scaled up through collaboration with Dow Chemical.

SC Johnson settles lawsuits involving Greenlist labeling; management talks increased transparency of “green chemical approval” process for consumers.