Japanese firm looks to Cambodia for bioethanol production

Japanese energy company Idemitsu Kosan has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to promote biofuel production in southeast Asia.

The agreement was with the Cambodian government and it will aim to produce bioethanol from cassava in the country for sale throughout the region.

It is believed an Idemitsu Kosan office will open in Phnom Penh with ambitions of producing 200,000 litres of bioethanol a year by the turn of the decade.