Latest Cellulosic ethanol commercialization Stories
TORONTO, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Woodland Biofuels, a leading cellulosic ethanol company, today announced that William B. White has joined Woodland's senior management team as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. White was formerly the President of DuPont Canada (1,000 employees, $1 billion revenue) and had an over 30 year career with the global DuPont company in Operations (Director, Global Operations), Marketing, Engineering and leadership of global business units. A long time...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. and MEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- POET Research Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of POET LLC, one of the world's largest ethanol producers, and Agrivida, Inc., a developer of biotechnology platforms for feedstock and feedstock processing, today announce the signing of a technology collaboration joint development agreement in the field of cellulosic ethanol. Under the terms of the four-year agreement POET and Agrivida will develop Agrivida's...
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") has awarded Fulcrum's Sierra BioFuels Plant a conditional commitment for a $105 million loan guarantee. With the loan guarantee finalized, the company will secure bank financing, which when combined with private equity capital provided by Fulcrum, will fully fund construction of the municipal solid waste to renewable transportation fuel...
WILMINGTON, Del., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Butamax(TM) Advanced Biofuels, the leading global biobutanol technology company, announced that its Early Adopters Group (EAG) has expanded with the addition of Big River Resources, bringing ethanol capacity of the collective EAG to nearly 900 million gallons a year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120209/MM50763LOGO) "Big River Resources are a large and high quality operation and we are delighted by their interest in...
MONTREAL, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Enerkem Inc. (www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, announced today the initial production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials at its demonstration facility in Westbury, Québec. "The start of ethanol production at our Westbury facility is a significant milestone", said Vincent Chornet, President and Chief Executive Officer of Enerkem. "Enerkem has already produced cellulosic ethanol at its smaller scale pilot...
Award Honors DuPont Industrial Biosciences Work to Advance the Commercialization of Cellulosic Ethanol Des Moines, IA (PRWEB) March 15, 2012 DuPont has won the 2012 Sustainable Biofuels Award in the Sustainable Feedstock Innovation Category for its Stover Harvest Collection Project. This is a comprehensive research and scale-up project for DuPont Industrial Biosciences that significantly advances the cellulosic ethanol industry toward commercialization and advances DuPont’s efforts to...
MAUMEE, Ohio, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Andersons, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDE) announced today the signing of an agreement to acquire an ethanol production facility in Denison, Iowa from its owners, the Amaizing Energy Denison LLC and Amaizing Energy Holding Company, LLC. The transaction, which remains subject to several contingencies, is anticipated to close in the second quarter. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081104/CLTU081LOGO ) If acquired, the plant would be owned...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synenergy Limited, LLC, a global green solutions provider, today announced their distributorship with Allard Energy, Inc. (formerly, Allard Research and Development LLC), a leading innovator for small to medium scale ethanol production. Allard Energy will provide research, development, and manufacturing services to support Synenergy's ongoing distribution of ethanol production refineries and related products. Synenergy, a leader in...
MONTREAL, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Enerkem Inc. (www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, announced today that Waste Management and EB Investments are investing C$15 million for a minority equity interest in Enerkem Alberta Biofuels L.P., which is currently building a full-scale commercial facility in Edmonton, using Enerkem's proprietary technology. Total financing raised by Enerkem in 2011, both at the corporate and project subsidiary levels, now amounts to...
SAN FRANCISCO and IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the Advanced Biofuels Markets Conference in San Francisco, Arnold Klann, Chief Executive Officer and President of BlueFire Renewables (OTC BB: BFRE.OB), a company focused on shifting the paradigm for energy sources by converting non-food cellulosic wastes into renewable fuels and chemicals, will announce the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary, SucreSource. The new subsidiary will focus specifically on the...
