
Feb 14, 2025
EWABA welcomes Bureau Veritas as its newest member
Other News
Feb 14, 2025
Velocys has announced that Matthew Viergutz has joined Velocys as chief executive officer. Viergutz will be based out of the company’s Houston, Texas, office and replaces Henrik Wareborn, who departed to pursue new opportunities.
Viergutz has over 25 years of experience in process licencing, holding various sales, business and leadership roles at Monsanto, MECS Inc.,... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 13, 2025
There are now just 130 days before the annual Conference and Expo and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Summit kicks off in Brussels.
Biofuels International has announced a list of speakers who will speak at the popular event.
These include Neste’s Cornelius Claeys, Ina Chirita from S&P Global, Bo Gleerup, from Nordic Green, Olivier Bobin, from CIRAM, and Eddie Tofpik, from... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 13, 2025
Biffa has partnered with Certas Energy to convert 25 transfer station plant vehicles within its industrial and commercial (I&C) division to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel.
The switch means Biffa continues to grow its green fleet and has set a target for 10% of its plant and collections vehicles to be alternatively fuelled by the end of the year.
Biffa now operates... [Read More]
Features
Feb 12, 2025
BDI-BioEnergy International has been one of the leaders in sustainable solutions for the energy sector for 25 years, particularly in producing biodiesel from waste-based oils and fats.
To ensure smooth production operations, the analysis and characterisation of raw materials are at the core of BDI’s R&D activities. In order to produce standard compliant biodiesel from... [Read More]
Features
Feb 12, 2025
Synagro Technologies and Firefly Green Fuels have partnered to bring Firefly’s novel fuel production techniques to the American market.
Synagro, a North American provider of sustainable solutions for biosolids, organics and residuals, has agreed to be the exclusive supplier of the biosolids feedstock used in Firefly’s innovative process.
This partnership will enable... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 11, 2025
Vueling and Foment del Treball have agreed to promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with the aim of moving towards the decarbonisation of air transport.
Vueling will calculate the emissions of Foment del Treball employees and managers produced by their air travel and subsequently supply the equivalent amount of SAF to the airport network in Spain.
Vueling... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 11, 2025
SSE Thermal has taken a final investment decision to build Tarbert Next Generation Power Station – opening a new chapter in the site’s proud energy story.
The 300MW plant will run on 100% sustainable biofuels with the potential to convert to hydrogen, reflecting SSE Thermal’s commitment to supporting the electricity system in Ireland while laying the foundations... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 10, 2025
Some UK anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures will expire in 2026.
Affected UK producers can apply for an expiry review if they want the measures to be kept.
The window for affected domestic producers to apply for an expiry review has now opened.
The period for industry to request an expiry review for the measures listed below runs from January 2025 to end October... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 10, 2025
A brand new European Commission, new faces in Parliament, elections in Germany, uncertainty in France, Trump 2.0 - there is so much to talk about.
As we are making our first strides into 2025, the EU biofuels policy landscape looks poised for both optimism and considerable challenges.
The convergence of geopolitical tensions, evolving EU policies and industry innovations... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 7, 2025
The EU Commission significantly lowered expectations concerning the European 2024 rapeseed harvest at the end of last year, reducing its forecast to approximately 17.2 million tonnes.
Given the smaller crop and an expected rapeseed processing volume of about 23 million tonnes, this means that the EU will rely more on imports.
Most imports go to German oil mills, which... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 7, 2025
The EU Commission slightly lowered its forecast of sunflower seed output in its February estimate for the 2024 oilseed harvest.
According to recent information by the EU Commission, the 2024 EU sunflower seed harvest is seen to total around 8 million tonnes, 7,000 tonnes less than expected at the end of December.
The revision increases the year-on-year decline to... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 6, 2025
Power2X has contracted Worley to provide engineering and project management services for its eFuels Rotterdam project – a world-scale production facility for sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) and ultra-low carbon fuels.
The Power2X production facility will use imported green methanol produced from green hydrogen and biogenic carbon as feedstock and have the capacity... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 6, 2025
DHL Group and Neste have agreed to evaluate how Neste’s renewable solutions such as renewable HVO100 diesel and sustainable aviation fuel can support the logistics company in its decarbonisation targets in air and road transportation.
DHL Group aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emission logistics by 2050. Interim targets by 2030 include electrifying two-thirds... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 5, 2025
Kip Cleverley, Chief Sustainability Officer, Synagro Technologies and James Hygate OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Firefly Green Fuels describe in detail how they think the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market will fare this year.
The future for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market looks very bright – demand is huge, and motivation to meet international mandates... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 5, 2025
Angel Alvarez Alberdi, EWABA’s Secretary General, outlines what he thinks will be the main biofuel trends in the year ahead.
This year will be a particularly consequential year for the waste-based and advanced biofuels industry, if there ever was one.
On the regulatory front one cannot avoid but start by acknowledging the market impact of the obligations set forth... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 4, 2025
The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to potentially source neat sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Aether Fuels that plans to set up SAF production plants in the US and Southeast Asia.
The agreement outlines the SIA Group’s intention to procure neat SAF for five years when Aether plants begin commercial production, with... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 4, 2025
Moeve and Norwegian signed a contract to accelerate the decarbonisation of air transport between Spain and the Nordic region by promoting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
As part of the contract, Norwegian used SAF supplied by Moeve for flights from Las Palmas airport in Spain to Nordic countries, primarily Norway and Sweden, as well as Denmark, during the months of... [Read More]