EPA’s 2011 blending mandates signal a wake-up call for cellulosic biofuels -...
Earlier this week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its proposed RFS2 renewable fuel blending mandates for 2011, a surprisingly pragmatic piece of regulatory action. The RFS2 is...
View ArticleTate & Lyle and Roquette take synthetic biology further into food, personal...
Not one, not two, but three synthetic biology food-related announcements recently hit the wires in short order. First there was Abunda Nutrition’s debut, and the company’s plan to use synthetic biology...
View ArticleMaterials suppliers follow consumer brand owners into synthetic biology -...
Consumer goods material suppliers continue to turn to synthetic biology for advanced products and delivery systems. A few months ago at the Metabolic Design summit, Steve He, who is responsible for...
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The boom in bio-based materials and chemicals is really a boom in synthetic...
Venture capitalists (VCs) invested $3.1 billion in bio-based chemicals and materials developers since 2004. As many of those start-ups reach megaton scales and launch IPOs, Lux Research analysts sought...
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Alternative Fuels: Rating Bioprocessing Companies on the Lux Innovative Grid...
As the alternative fuels industry rapidly approaches maturity, reports of IPOs and commercialization have blended with headlines about spectacular failures and cheap acquisitions. The remaining players...
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Growth Beyond First-Generation Bio-based Products Drives the Industry Towards...
Investment and growth in bio-based material and chemical capacity continues to increase globally. Aggregating 229 sites from 217 companies that are planned, operating, or have been shuttered between...
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What Are the Major Alternative Fuels Interests of Oil Majors? - Amyris – Lux...
As the alternative fuels industry diversifies and scales up, financing is always the key to technology commercialization. While several sources of financing drive the whole industry forward, we...
View ArticleBio-Based Polymers to Be a Key BBMC Opportunity in 2017 - Amyris – Lux Spotlight
2016 marked a shift in the bio-based materials and chemicals (BBMC) industry. Because of sustained low oil prices, changing consumer demand, and emerging regulatory drivers, we saw synthetic biology...
View ArticleThe Race for Bio-Based Tire Additives: Amyris and Kuraray Come out in Front -...
Early March gave us two announcements pertaining to bio-based additives in car tires: American Process (API) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) with Birla Carbon to combine nanocellulose and...
View ArticleLux Highlights the Key Themes From BIO World Congress 2017 - Amyris – Lux...
Lux recently presented at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. Although the event’s topics ranged from renewable chemicals and materials to biofuels to synthetic biology, three key...
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