In a recent report, the National Academies concludes that supporting America’s Renewable Fuels Standard requires increased stability in public policy. The report, which can be read here, addresses a wide range of topics and policy priorities. The report highlights the need for policy certainty and public sector support for advanced biofuels. Developing new technology takes [...]
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October 6th, 2011
Novozymes joins FuelChoiceNow Coalition to continue push for U.S. consumer access to biofuels
Novozymes just became a member of the FuelChoiceNow coalition. The coalition’s goal is create more open access to alternative fuels and includes advanced biofuel companies and cleantech innovators. The formation of this new coalition proves that momentum is continuing to build behind biofuels. Consumers deserve to have a choice with their fuel and our economy [...]
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New integrated food and energy business to help reduce poverty in Africa
Novozymes and environmental venture group CleanStar Ventures have established an integrated food and energy production business in Mozambique that will replace thousands of charcoal cook stoves with cleaner-burning ethanol stoves. In addition to safeguarding lives from dangerous charcoal smoke, the business is expected to increase farmers’ incomes by up to 500%, save thousands of acres [...]
> MORE June 27th, 2011
Novozymes wins Abengoa’s sustainability award
At a ceremony today in Seville, Spain, Novozymes was honored to be the first recipient of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation’s Sustainable Business Award. We won this award for our life cycle studies, which include the supply of enzymes for Abengoa’s biofuel production, our technical support for their application, and details about their carbon footprint. Abengoa created [...]
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March 23rd, 2011
The voice of our customers
Listening to our customers is something that we here at Novozymes take very seriously. In September of last year, I visited four of our biofuel partners together with a group of creative people from our Danish advertising agency. Together we zipped through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in a 5-day whirlwind tour through some of [...]
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June 28th, 2010
From woody waste to cellulosic ethanol
Novozymes recently entered into an agreement with Lignol Energy Corporation to develop a commercially viable process for making ethanol from forestry waste at a production cost as low as $2 per gallon, a price that is competitive with gasoline and corn ethanol. The partnership is a very promising one. With our recent launch of Cellic® [...]
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Commercial Production of Cellulosic Biofuel on Fast Track in China
COFCO, Sinopec and Novozymes to Construct Biofuel Demonstration Facility by 2011 Novozymes is proud to announce the latest development in our ongoing partnerships designed to accelerate the development of cellulosic ethanol. We have agreed to accelerate our development work with two leaders in China: COFCO, a leading producer and supplier of processed agricultural products; and [...]
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Novozymes and Ceres partner on biofuel crops
Taking steps toward the commercialization of low-carbon biofuels from switchgrass and other energy crops We are excited to announce our partnership with Ceres, Inc., a leading developer of high-yielding energy crops that can be used as feedstock for advanced biofuels. Our collaboration will focus on developing customized plant varieties and enzyme cocktails for producing cellulosic [...]
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