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Navistar to take stake in Brazilian bus builder Neobus; to partner on fully integrated commercial buses for the Americas

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is planning to enter into a global commercial bus partnership with Brazilian commercial bus body manufacturer San Marino Onibus e Implementos Ltda (Neobus) and will invest in the company. Neobus product range includes midi and feeder vehicles, heavy transit and articulated buses, as well as intercity and long-distance coaches.

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VG Energy contracts BioProcess Algae to verify lipid trigger process for commercial production

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has retained alternative energy producer BioProcess Algae, LLC to verify on a large scale promising lab results of a process to increase lipid production in algae. When the process was applied to algae cells in the lab, extractable lipid, or fat, production was increased by a minimum of 300%. Karen Newell Rogers, the Raleigh R.

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Viral Genetics Appoints John Sheehan to Advisory Board to Accelerate Biofuel Work

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For 17 years, he worked as a project manager and analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, where he led research on the production and conversion of algae to biofuels. Identifying and controlling the trigger for lipid production in algae has long been the holy grail of algal biofuels technology.