Biodiesel News

Sagay Central, a sugar milling and sugar growing company and partner of energy crop cultivator Viaspace, has shipped and planted Giant King Grass in Negros Occidental, the Philippines. Sagay Central crushes 4,000 tonnes of sugarcane daily and produces 150,000 tonnes of sugar per year. The Giant King Grass was harvested from Viaspace's nursery in California, US and inspected by the US Department…
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In the US, Simple Fuels is to acquire the assets of California-based Yokayo Biofuels. The transaction includes the sale of Yokayo's biodiesel operations, as well as its oil collection activities and deep fryer oil collected from local restaurants. It has been reported that Simple Fuels will continue producing and supplying biodiesel at the same price of $4.70 (€3.70) per gallon. Following…
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On 23 September, Finnair used sustainable biofuel to operate its Airbus A330 flight from Helsinki to New York. SkyNRG Nordic, a joint venture between SkyNRG and Statoil Aviation, provided the biofuel mixture, which was partly manufactured from cooking oil recycled from restaurants. At present, aviation biofuels costs more than double the price of conventionally produced jet fuel and so is not yet…
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SPA Renewables, an emerging company that specialises in the collection and processing of Used Cooking Oil into biodiesel, is installing an 8,000 tonnes per year biodiesel plant in Corinth, Greece. IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company, which provides fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has signed a contract with SPA Renewables to supply the plant. The facility will use…
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Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels will supply biofuel to Southwest Airlines and to the military starting in 2016. The airline has agreed to buy three million gallons of low-carbon jet fuel per year from advanced renewable provider Red Rock Biofuels. The fuel will be manufactured at a plant, soon to be constructed, in Lakeview, Oregon, US. The $200 million plant will convert woody biomass —…
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Elevance Renewable Sciences, a specialty chemicals company based in Illinois, the US, will partner with Malaysia's Genting Plantations, through its subsidiary Genting Integrated Biorefinery, to build a 240,000-tonne factory at POIC Lahad Datu. The factory, which will be the first in Malaysia, is thought to lead to new technologies in the area and a cluster of biorefineries in Sabah. The…
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KazMunayGas Trading has lost its court case against Austrian oil company OMV Petrom. The product and supplies company will have to pay over $70 million (€56 million) to Romanian tax administration agency ANAF, for contentious biodiesel imports from Canada originating in the US. This sum was awarded for recovering losses generated by the OLAF investigation and the decision to pay the…
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The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has filed comments with the European Commission (EC) challenging blocked US biodiesel exports to Europe. Since 2009, the EC has prevented biodiesel exports trading from US to Europe, a move that the NBB calls 'unfair'. NBB urges the EC to allow duties on US biodiesel imports to expire this year planned, arguing that global trade for biodiesel has changed…
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International aviation group Lufthansa and sustainable energy specialists JatroSolutions have signed an MoU to make the production of jatropha commercially viable. Lufthansa will help the start-up company set up a raw materials supply chain to ensure the provision of biosynthetic fuel derived from the jatropha plant. Joachim Buse, VP, Aviation Biofuel at Lufthansa, says: 'In order to secure the…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is expected to spend up to $25 million (€19.8 million) on improving algae production and development. The Department is working on reducing the costs of algae biofuel down below $5-per-gallon equivalent in petrol by 2019 by improving current technologies. If that doesn't seem very ambitious compare that to the state of play without innovation, which comes…
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Crop company Agrisoma Biosciences has finished the first closing of its Series A financing round, expected to total $8 million through 2014. Cycle Capital Management led the financing round, which included participation of BDC Venture Capital, one of Agrisoma's current equity investors. Certified sustainable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Carinata is the world's first…
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EU authorities has given the go ahead for Airbus' new long-haul A350 plane to start flying. Deliveries of the next-generation aircraft will be sent to its first client Qatar Airways shortly. The new A350 plane has been manufactured to help the European airline catch up with Boeing's efforts to create long-haul, fuel-efficient planes. Using light composite materials, the A350-900 reduces fuel…
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