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The visit aimed to highlight the Obama Administration's efforts to support the creation and production of biobased products in order to create jobs, add value to agricultural commodities, and reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
Monticello said while ethanol may not be a focus of the collaboration, the alcohol acts as a viable springboard for getting to the basic building blocks of producing chemicals such as isoprene, which is of specific interest to GlycosBio.
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Ineos announced this month that its joint-venture project, Ineos New Planet BioEnergy, finalized $75 million in private financing utilizing the USDA loan guarantee program for its new Indian River BioEnergy Center located in Vero Beach, Fla.
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada issued its annual call for applications under the $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund created by the government to support the establishment of innovative demonstration-scale biorefining facilities.
The company has formed several partnerships or JVs with the likes of Novamont, Tate & Lyle, Mitsubishi Corp, M&G and even Waste Management. Today, Genomatica officially announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for its IPO.
A $5,000 research grant was awarded to undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by British Petroleum. The purpose of the grant is for students to learn the engineering properties of biomass.
The two companies have formed a joint-venture to build an industrial biorefinery to produce Genomatica's butanediol (BDO) for use in Novamont's bioplastic products.
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