Aug 14, 2015
Poet releases first economic impact study, suggests positive developments
Bioethanol News
Aug 12, 2015
The Philippines' National Bioethanol Board (NBB) says the future of the bioethanol industry in the country looks promising, as local and foreign direct investments in the sector have grown from $206 million in 2012 to $386 million in 2015.
Investments are projected to double to $770 million in 2016.
‘When the policy guidelines on the utilization of locally-produced... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 7, 2015
SJC Bioenergia, a joint venture between Cargill and Group USJ, has purchased equipment Fluid Quip Process Technologies to integrate corn ethanol production at its sugarcane ethanol facility located in Quirinopolis, Brazil.
SJC Bioenergia will utilise FQPT's SGT milling, BOS front-end corn oil, Fiber Separation, and MSC Protein Recovery technologies. The combined patented... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 6, 2015
Brazilian biofuel company Gratt Industria de Maquinas has entered negotiations to build an experimental plant to produce ethanol from sweet potato crops.
Gratt has held meetings with local regulators in the state of Roraima and says production could start within a year if regulatory approval is granted.
The plant is projected to produce approximately 5,000 litres of ethanol... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 4, 2015
The first commercial-scale UK seaweed farm is scheduled to be scheduled in Argyll off the coast of Scotland in late summer 2015.
The new facility, planned by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, will be run as a demonstration project that will help shape the UK’s fledling seaweed cultivation sector.
Seven native seaweed varieties... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 30, 2015
Pacific Ethanol, a producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the US, has begun commercial production of corn oil utilising Valicor's corn oil recovery system at its Columbia ethanol plant located in Boardman, Oregon.
With the completion of this two-year initiative, all four of the western Pacific Ethanol plants are now producing corn oil.
Neil Koehler, the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 28, 2015
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched Iogen Energy's cellulosic ethanol technology at the official opening of Raizen's newly expanded Costa Pinto sugar cane mill in Piracicaba, Brazil.
Iogen, a cellulosic biofuel technology developer, and Raizen, one of the world's largest producers of sugarcane ethanol, completed construction of the $105 million (appr. €95... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 22, 2015
Blume Distillation, a biorefinery systems provider for bioethanol production, has announced the sale of its first Africa-based biorefinery.
The Blume biorefinery system has been purchased by Numbitrax, based in Touwsriver, Western Cape, South Africa, which has completed a purchase agreement and fund transfer.
The purchase represents an investment worth several million... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 16, 2015
DuPont and Jilin Province New Tianlong Industry (NTL) have announced a licensing agreement to begin the development of China's largest cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant, located in Siping City, Jilin Province, China.
The agreement allows NTL to license DuPont's cellulosic ethanol technology and use DuPont Accellerase enzymes, to produce renewable biofuel from the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 15, 2015
EU Ministers have officially approved new rules to address indirect land use change (ILUC) impacts associated with biofuels.
According to the European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePURE), these new rules – which have been discussed by the EU institutions for three years – must now be transposed and implemented quickly to ensure Europe meets its climate and... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 15, 2015
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting biofuel friendly policies internationally, has welcomed the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) as its newest member.
'Brazil is truly a trailblazer in the global biofuels industry, not only as one of the world's largest producers of biofuels, but one of the first,'... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 14, 2015
Carbon recycling company LanzaTech has entered into a letter of intent with steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, and Primetals Technologies, a technology and service provider to the iron and steel industry, for the construction of Europe's first-ever commercial scale production facility to produce bioethanol from waste gases generated during the steelmaking process.
The... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 14, 2015
Vecoplan has executed a fixed-price contract with Fulcrum BioEnergy, to design, engineer, install and commission a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock processing system for Fulcrum's Sierra BioFuels Plant.
Fulcrum has developed a reliable and efficient process for converting MSW, or household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled, into low-cost, low-carbon renewable... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 9, 2015
In Kansas, US, an ethanol producers group, formerly known as the Kansas Association of Ethanol Processors (KAEP), has changed its name to Renew Kansas.
According to the company, the name change better reflects the group's mission to promote ethanol as a renewable fuel that is good for the state's consumers, the environment and the economy.
'Changing our name to Renew Kansas... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 6, 2015
Green Plains Partners has closed its initial public offering (IPO) of 11,500,000 common units representing limited partner interests at $15 (€13.5) per common unit. The number of common units issued at closing included 1,500,000 common units that were issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional common units.
The common units... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 3, 2015
Pacific Ethanol, a producer and marketer of renewable fuels in the western US, has completed its merger with Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings.
Neil Koehler, the company's president and CEO, says: 'We are pleased to complete this acquisition, establishing Pacific Ethanol as the sixth largest producer of ethanol in the US. In addition to more than doubling our ethanol... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 26, 2015
Microvi Biotechnologies, an innovator of biocatalytic processes, working with the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has demonstrated improvements to biological ethanol production.
Microvi's technology uses engineered biocatalyst composites which have been synthetically designed to alleviate... [Read More]
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