The Bioeconomy Revolution: the new ebook on world bioeconomy

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The cover of the ebook
The cover of the ebook

The Bioeconomy Revolution has just begun. The Bioeconomy Revolution is the new ebook on world bioeconomy published by Edizioni Ambiente, the main Italian publisher focused on green economy, bioeconomy and circular economy.

The ebook has the privilege of hosting the preface written by Christian Patermann, the man who is considered as the “father” of the European bioeconomy:

“The Bioeconomy Revolution” is not just another book to be added to the growing number of publications worldwide on the Bioeconomy and more recently on the so-called circular economy.

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Cologne center of gravity of the innovative bio-based materials

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Michael Carus, Ceo of nova-Institut, with the representatives of the three companies awarded in Cologne. Copyright: nova-Institut

Last Tuesday in Cologne, at the 9th International Conference on Bio-based Materials organized by the nova-Institut, the Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2016” was awarded to three innovative materials in suitable applications. The competition focused on new developments in the bio-based economy, which have had (or will have) a market launch in 2015 or 2016.

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Utrecht is ready to host the European Bioeconomy Stakeholders next Tuesday

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Rabo Nederland, Utrecht
Rabo Nederland, Utrecht

Another brick towards the European Bioeconomy. The European Commission organises from 12 to 13 April in Utrecht, The Netherlands, the EU Bioeconomy Stakeholders’ Conference. Four years on from the launching of the EU’s Bioeconomy Strategy, Brussels in collaboration with the Dutch Presidency analyses the achievements and the opportunities ahead in the two-day conference.

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Metabolix and CJ CheilJedang together for a bioplastics production unit in Iowa

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fdairport1.jpgMetabolix, an U.S. advanced biomaterials company focused on sustainable solutions for the plastics industry, announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with CJ CheilJedang Corporation (“CJ”) for a strategic commercial manufacturing arrangement for specialty PHAs, including the Company’s newly launched amorphous PHA (“a-PHA”).

CJ CheilJedang is a Korean-based food, feed, and bioscience company, and a subsidiary of the CJ Group. It is a global leader in the area of industrial biotechnology with innovations in fermentation and purification technologies.

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Bio-on and Italeri together to produce bio-based toys

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Marco Astorri

Italian biotech company Bio-on announces the launch of a new collaboration with Italeri S.p.A., a production and distribution leader in the modelling sector. Thanks to this agreement, the manufacture of scale models will be done for the first time with the special grade Minerv PHA Supertoys, the new type of bioplastic developed by Bio-on laboratories.

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FedEx plans to use alternative jet fuel made from wood waste

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FedEx, the global courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, entered into an agreement with Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels to purchase alternative jet fuel made from wood waste. Starting in 2017, FedEx will blend the first 6 million gallons of this jet fuel at its Oakland hub, ultimately producing at least 48 million gallons over an 8 year term.  

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Aemetis acquires license from LanzaTech with California rights for advanced bioethanol

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imageAemetis, an advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, announced last Thursday the acquisition of exclusive rights  to award winning, carbon recycling company LanzaTech’s patented technology for the conversion of agricultural waste, forest waste, dairy waste  and construction and demolition waste (CDW) to ethanol in California. 

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The UK Energy Technologies Institute is seeking partners for a new bioenergy project

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BP is partner of ETI

The Energy Technologies Institute is seeking partners for a new bioenergy project which aims to improve understanding of the future of biomass logistics in the UK.

The ETI is a public-private partnership between global energy and engineering companies, such as BP and Shell, and the UK Government. Its role is to act as a conduit between academia, industry and the government to accelerate the development of low carbon technologies. It brings together engineering projects that develop affordable, secure and sustainable technologies to help the UK address its long term emissions reductions targets as well as delivering nearer term benefits.

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Italy will have its own strategy on bioeconomy by next summer

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Raffaele Liberali in Metaponto (Basilicata, Italy)
Raffaele Liberali in Metaponto (Basilicata, Italy)

Italy will have its own strategy on bioeconomy by next summer. This was announced by Mario Calderini, representative of the Ministry of Education, University and Research, yesterday in Metaponto, Basilicata, during the launch event of the regional bioeconomy cluster. Good news, then, for the bioeconomy in Italy, where it seems that the issue is increasingly on the agenda of the institutions.

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Bruce E. Dale, MSU: “Our current narrative about the way the world works is broken”

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Bruce E. Dale in his lab at MSU
Bruce E. Dale in his lab at MSU

“They are on a journey of no return anyway. They are a “mining” industry, and all mines eventually become exhausted. The question is whether some or all of the petrochemical industry will realize this fact and act to change their feedstocks and practices so that their businesses can continue long term based on sustainable feedstocks and sustainable practices.” To say it – in this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista – is Bruce E. Dale, a highly-ranked academic in the Top 100 People in Bioenergy (Bioenergy Digest). Professor Dale received his doctorate in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1979. He is currently University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. He serves as Editor in Chief and Founding Editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. Dale has won the Charles D. Scott Award (1996), the Sterling Hendricks Award (2007) and the Award of Excellence of the Fuel Ethanol Workshop (2011). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2011) and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (2016).

His research interests are cellulosic biofuels, the relationship between energy and societal wealth, life cycle assessment and the design of sustainable systems for producing fuels, chemicals, food and animal feed.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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