
Apr 23, 2015
Aventine delivers first ethanol shipment by train in US
Bioethanol News
Apr 23, 2015
Taiwan's largest integrated steel maker, China Steel Corporation (CSC), has announced formal Board approval of a 1.4 billion TWD (€42.8 million) capital investment in a LanzaTech commercial ethanol facility. This follows the successful demonstration of the revolutionary carbon recycling platform at the White Biotech (WBT) Demonstration Plant in Kaohsiung using steel... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2015
NexSteppe, a producer of sustainable feedstock solutions for the bio-based industries, sold more than 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) of its Palo Alto biomass sorghums in Brazil this past growing season, compared to just over 1,000 hectares in the previous year.
Just as many of the leaders of the bio-based economy have begun proving their conversion technologies at commercial... [Read More]
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Apr 15, 2015
A recent impact study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln economists reveals Nebraska's ethanol production capacity growth between 1995 and 2014 is tenfold. The results of the 'Economic Impacts of the Ethanol Industry in Nebraska' study were released during a press conference on 14 April.
The authors - Dr. Kathleen Brooks, UNL agricultural economics professor; Dr. Dennis... [Read More]
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Apr 15, 2015
Pearson Fuels and G&M Oil Company are celebrating their latest partnership with the grand opening of California's newest E85 station.
A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place on 15 April and E85 will be available all day for just $0.85 (€0.80) per gallon.
This event is part of a larger announcement of Pearson Fuels and G&M Oil Company, who have announced... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 15, 2015
Renewable company Cascades has invested in a new technology at its Norampac-Cabano facility. This new process extracts hemicellulose from woodchips.
The project is worth a total $26 million (€24.5 million). It is backed by a $10 million investment from Natural Resources Canada's Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) programme and an additional $4.4... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 10, 2015
According to UNEP's ninth 'Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2015', prepared by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance — the past year brought a rebound of green energy investments worldwide... [Read More]
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Apr 9, 2015
In the April edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, released on 7 April, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) says that ethanol production was around 944,000 barrels per day (bpd) in March 2015. This is a drop from the all-time high 1 million bpd recorded in December 2014.
Ethanol production averaged 935,000 bpd last year, and EIA expects it to average 944... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 7, 2015
PureVision Technology, a Colorado, US-based biorefinery developer, will scale up its biorefining technology at an industrial site in Boardman, Oregon owned by biorefinery developer ZeaChem.
PureVision's patented biorefining technology takes in raw biomass, such as corn stalks, wheat straw and industrial hemp, and produces sugars, pulp, lignin and other value-added materials... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 7, 2015
Agricultural biotechnology company Ceres has announced that its biotech sugarcane traits have been advanced to the next stage of testing ahead of schedule due to positive data from initial field evaluations under tropical conditions in Latin America. Leading product candidates are currently being multiplied for wider-scale field evaluations which are scheduled to begin... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 1, 2015
Under a recently signed commercial agreement, Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy (SIRE) will begin using Syngenta's Enogen corn enzyme technology at its Council Bluffs ethanol production facility in Iowa, US, following the 2015 harvest.
SIRE is a dry-mill grain processing facility that consumes more than 40 million bushels of corn to produce more than 125 million gallons... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 1, 2015
In Washington, ethanol and agriculture industry groups have written a letter to the House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Programs Committee on Appropriations to advocate for continued funding of US blender pump initiatives and US export promotion efforts.
The letter countered a request led by Representatives Bob Goodlatte, Peter Welch,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 30, 2015
The Transport Energy Task Force has highlighted the important role sustainable biofuels will play in meeting the UK's future transport needs, in its concluding report.
The report identified that there is a clear role for sustainable biofuels over the medium to longer term and at least to 2030 when fossil transport fuels will still be dominant. It also called for a 'robust... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 30, 2015
Ukrainian state-run spirits group Ukrspyrt has brought online an upgraded bioethanol plant in the western region of Ternopil, it has been reported.
Investments in the plant's modernisation stood at UAH 60 million (€2.3 million), with financing coming from Armenian investors, according to a company statement.
The facility was launched on the premises of Zarubynsky... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2015
In San Francisco, US, petrol blended with 85% ethanol (E85) is now available to flex-fuel vehicle owners.
Robert White, VP of industry relations at the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), says: 'There are more than 18 million flex-fuel vehicles registered in the US. Drivers of these vehicles deserve access to E85.'
E85 is approved for use in all flex-fuel vehicles and more... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 25, 2015
Praj Industries, a global process solutions company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to become a Gevo licensee for producing renewable isobutanol at sugar-based ethanol plants.
Under the MoU, Praj will undertake to license up to 250 million gallons of isobutanol capacity for sugar-based ethanol plants over the next 10 years. Gevo will market the isobutanol... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 17, 2015
Ceres, an agricultural biotechnology company, and Brazilian energy company Raízen have signed a multi-year collaboration agreement to develop and produce sweet sorghum on an industrial scale.
Sweet sorghum can be grown to complement existing feedstock supplies and extend the operating season of Brazilian sugarcane-to-ethanol mills.
Under the collaboration, the companies... [Read More]