Tag Archives: isobutanol

Less than two weeks ago, marine engine executives from Indmar, Yamaha, Mercury Marine, Torqeedo, Evinrude and Volvo Penta met with Speaker Paul Ryan, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his senior staff and Chairman John Shimkus. The discussion on Capitol Hill focused on reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard, promoting E15 education for consumers and offering biobutanol as an alternative fuel. Despite ...

Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEVO) announced that it was selected to collaborate with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy as part of DOE’s Small Business Vouchers program. The SBV program provides funding for DOE’s national laboratories to partner with selected U.S. businesses, enabling these clean technology companies to leverage the laboratories’ technical and intellectual resources. Specifically, Argonne National Laboratory and the National ...

Over the past decade, the fuels and additives market has been heavily focused on ethanol in gasoline: what it does to fuel systems, how to raise consumer awareness of its potential dangers, and developing products to meet the market need.  And while consumer awareness of ethanol is still a market focus, it is not the same driving message it used ...

Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEVO), announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the pathway for isobutanol produced at Gevo’s Luverne, Minn., plant to be an advanced biofuel under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program. This is the first time that the EPA has approved a pathway for an advanced biofuel that uses starch from feed corn to produce an alcohol. With ...

Isobutanol producer Gevo, Inc. recently signed a contract with Musket Corp. a national fuel distributor and logistics firm that is part of the Love’s Family of Companies, to have Musket Corp. blend Gevo’s isobutanol with gasoline for its marine and off-road customers. Musket Corp. will initially offer this fuel in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Love’s has a strong presence in ...

Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEVO), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Musket Corporation to supply isobutanol for blending with gasoline.  Musket is a national fuel distributor under the umbrella of the Love’s Family of Companies. Initial target markets are expected to include the marine and off-road markets in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. The supply program is expected to begin ...

Gevo, Inc., and ValvTect will collaborate on bringing renewable isobutanol fuel blends to ValvTect branded marinas, the companies announced Wednesday. With a distribution network of over 700 marinas, believed to represent more than half of the marinas in the U.S., this collaboration provides Gevo with access to marinas that currently utilize ValvTect additives. In addition, this partnership is expected to ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEVO) announced key initiatives and targets for 2016 following the settlement with Butamax in August. The company will be hosting a webcast today at 10:30 a.m. EST to discuss the details, led by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Patrick Gruber and Chief Financial Officer Mike Willis. “The settlement with Butamax eliminated a significant cost and uncertainty ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEVO) today provided an update following the announcement that it had entered into worldwide patent cross-license and settlement agreements with Butamax Advanced Biofuels, LLC, ending a patent dispute related to technologies for the production of bio-based isobutanol. “This settlement with Butamax is arguably the most important development for our company since Gevo went public in ...

Gevo, Inc., has announced that Harbor Marina at Lake Pomme de Terre in Missouri is the first U.S. marina to sell gasoline blended with Gevo’s renewable isobutanol at the pump. Introduction of the initial isobutanol and gasoline fuel blend took place Wednesday on the marina docks, as Gevo, Harbor Marina, boaters, and Mark Piatt, owner of fuel supplier Oil and ...