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. 

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