25 June 201424 June 2014 Stora Enso acquires Virdia in (up to) $62M deal For $33M upfront and $29M in incentives for meeting milestones — Stora Enso acquires renewable sugars pioneer Virdia — the former HCL CleanTech — as the Finnish giant hones its biobased strategy
25 September 2013 Former Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina Joins LanzaTech Board Proven strategist to help company evangelize new energy paradigm
17 June 2013 Biofuels and Renewable Chemicals’s Hottest Partners for 2013-14 You chose - here are the winners in this year’s poll
25 March 2013 Biorefinery 2015 – transformations in biofuels costs, financing The first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now reaching completion
8 January 2013 Top Molecules: The DOE’s 12 Top Biobased List – what’s worked out? 136,000 downloads later – let’s look at why this DOE paper on renewable chemicals from 2004 is such an enduring hit, and which of its 12 target molecules are looking like winners
30 May 2012 Virdia opens cellulosic sugar demo plant New Facility to convert cellulosic biomass to high quality fermentable sugars, lignin is operating since late April
6 March 2012 Wood chips take acid bath en route to biochemicals Startup Virdia is joining hundreds of biotech companies trying to make low-cost sugar to replace oil and food crops