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The 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-based Products
Novozymes #1; US Navy close behind; Ceres, Waste Management, DOE make top 5; complete Hot 40 list, plus 16 category winners.
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-based Products, as voted by the subscribers and invited international selectors of the Digest.
The complete Hot 40 list is here.
The complete list of category winners - 16 in all - is here.
Who won? How did your favorite partners fare? All the juicy details await you at biofuelsdigest.com. |
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Producer News
In California, "Financing large projects that include biodiesel processors [are]...attracting a new type of predator with clever tricks to fraudulently divert investment revenue streams to him," writes Digest contributor Peter Brown in a new article appearing in Biodiesel magazine. The article looks in depth at frauds and scams in biodiesel financing, including a recent case of escrow money swiped by an attorney.
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration said that US ethanol production averaged 38.64 million gallons per day, up 672,000 gallons per day, and that the four-week average ethanol production rose to 38.282 million gallons per day.
In Missouri, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands will increase conversion of its airport shuttle buses to 20 percent biodiesel (B20) and are exploring other clean fuel options for its buses. The company has converted its fleet of buses to biodiesel in more than 50 North American markets. Overall, more than 70 percent of its buses now run on biodiesel,
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International News
In the UK, Royal Navy Rear Adm. Neil A. Morisetti, the UK's climate and energy security adviser, visited the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate at Wright-Patterson with former US Air Combat Command chief Gen. Ronald E. Keys. Morisetti called on the US and UK to collaborate more closely on the development of strategic high-performance biofuels.
In Brazil, CleanStar Ventures and Novozymes will be hosting a side event at the upcoming Rio+20 Summit. The two companies established an innovative food and energy business in Mozambique that delivers urban households an affordable ethanol-based cooking alternative to charcoal.
In India, the Center for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel has lately thrown its weight behind R&D on castor beans, saying that the castor, as a companion crop, can double returns and yields for farmers, with castor bean acting as a cover crop, as well as producing a high-value renewable oil.
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Renewable Chemicals and Materials
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Top Tweets - the Voices of Biofuels
CaterComRox: #Biofuels likely a "game changer"for military, commercial aviation
GreatPlainsInst: Diverse Coalition Calls for Maintaining Key Biofuels Policies
GlobalEcoGuy: Globally, ~60% of crop production is fed to people, 35% to animals, and 5% to biofuels. In Midwest ~15% of crop fed to people.
tovatech: Squeezing All the Ethanol You Can Get from Wood
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Financial News
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 1.17 percent to 63.32 on a general renewables advance. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) recovered 4.00 percent to $2.60, while Gevo advanced 4.17 percent to $5.99. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) climbed 3.24 percent to $7.01. Overall, advances led declines 7 to 1 for the day.
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Hot Biofuels Jobs - New jobs daily!
Sr. Fuels Engineer - Gevo
VP Engineering & Project Management - OptaFuel
Sr. Project Manager, Project Engineer - Sweetwater Energy
Project Manager - PureVision Technology
Scientist - Microbial Fermentation - Confidential
General Manager, Agriculture - Yulex
North American Business Development Mgr - Novozymes
Grain Processing Technical Sales Rep (NAm) - Verenium
Operations/Plant Manager (Florida), LS9
Senior Field Engineer, Process Engineer, Director of Field Engineering, Field Engineering
Supervisor, Field Services Engineer, Cost Engineer, EdeniQ
Synthetic Biologist, Total
Enzymologist, Total
Molecular Geneticist, Total
Director, Strategic Analysis, Mendel Biotechnologies
Supply Chain Manager, Guatemala, SG Biofuels
Customer Solutions Scientist, Novozymes
Bioformatics Research Scientist, LanzaTech
Process Chemist, Gevo
Director of Sales - EdeniQ
Project Engineer - EdeniQ
Bioprocessing Biochemist - EdeniQ
Genetics Section Head - EdeniQ
Field Services Technician - EdeniQ
Application Scientist - Mascoma
For these jobs and dozens more (new listings every day), visit the Biofuels Digest job portal
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Biofuels Digest SuperContent
* Free download of the Advanced Biofuels Project Database (release 2.04), tracking 207 advanced biofuels projects currently under development around the globe, including capacity, construction timelines, feedstocks, processing technologies and products, plus project notes.
* One-stop access to the Top 100 People in Bioenergy, 560 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy and 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials annual rankings.
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These stories and more are available at BiofuelsDigest.com. Your comments and story requests are warmly welcome: email me at jlane@biofuelsdigest.com.
Digest Staff:
Editor & Publisher: Jim Lane
Senior editors: Joelle Brink, Meghan Sapp
Assistant Editors: Thomas Saidak, Isabel Lane
VP, Sales & Marketing: Dave Clark
Columnists:
Mike McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association
Brooke Coleman, Executive Director, Advanced Ethanol Council
Brent Erickson, EVP, Industrial Biotechnology, BIO
Bob Dinneen, CEO, Renewable Fuels Association
Mary Rosenthal, Executive Director, Algal Biomass Organization
General Wesley Clark (Ret.), co-chairman, Growth Energy
Tom Buis, CEO, Growth Energy
Digest Conferences (Alliance Biofuels Conferences LLC):
Managing partner and conference director: Bill Lundberg
Disclosure: I do not own any renewable energy securities; no payments or other compensation is received in return for placing articles or favorable opinion in the Digest - Jim Lane, Editor and Publisher, Biofuels Digest.
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