May 28, 2015
Renewables share of US energy consumption highest since 1930s
Bioethanol News
May 27, 2015
Cristal Union and Global Bioenergies have formed a joint venture to build and operate France's first bio-sourced isobutene production plant.
The JV, IBN-One, will build and operate the first plant in France converting renewable resources into isobutene. IBN-One is a 'société anonyme' (limited liability corporation) with share capital of €1 million – jointly... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 27, 2015
Aventine Renewable Energy has installed its third Valicor corn oil separation system.
The new $4.4 million (€4 million) 'plug and play' modular system is now operating at the Aurora West 110 million gallons per year Delta T plant in Aurora, Nebraska.
'By adapting new technologies to the dry-milling process, we're able to extract and market higher value co-products,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 27, 2015
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is investing in substantial improvements and expansions to its port facilities in Puerto San Martin in the Argentine state of Santa Fe, enhancing the company's capability to export grain and other agricultural products from the region.
The improvements, which will include the construction of a new berth for barge discharge and the addition... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 27, 2015
Air Liquide Industrial US (Air Liquide) has commissioned a new state-of-the-art carbon dioxide liquefaction plant in Tulare County, California.
The new 450 tonne per day facility is one of three carbon dioxide liquefaction facilities owned and operated by Air Liquide in the state.
The facility captures carbon dioxide emissions from an ethanol plant owned by Calgren Renewable... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 26, 2015
Representatives of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), Growth Energy and the US Grains Council (USGC) recently travelled to Tokyo to follow up on an industry market assessment of the potential to export US ethanol to Japan.
Over the next two years, the government of Japan will be undertaking a full review of its national energy policies, including biofuels, potentially... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 21, 2015
UN FAO, Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Carbon War Room, KLM, Novozymes and the UN Foundation partner to scale up the development and deployment of sustainable bioenergy solutions to meet the global need for sustainable energy.
As part of the 2nd Annual Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Forum, a new multi-stakeholder coalition, co-chaired... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 21, 2015
Sweden-based Taurus Energy and Canadian yeast and bacteria specialist Lallemand have signed a collaboration agreement to develop, market, sell and distribute Taurus' Gen 2 XyloFerm yeast platform on the US market.
'It has been our goal from the beginning to market our yeast technology globally,' says Lars Welin, CEO, Taurus Energy. 'Partnering with Lallemand with its experience... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 21, 2015
Ethanol producer Poet has selected Aras PLM Solution Suite to drive product development and engineering best practices, improve processes and product tracking, and improve visibility into product-related data throughout the enterprise and extended supply chain.
Technology company Aras is a manufacturer of enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. Poet will... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 20, 2015
CropEnergies AG, Mannheim, was able to increase revenues by 6% to €827 million (previous year: €780 million) in the financial year 2014/15 (1 March 2014 - 28 February 2015). The main reason for the growth in revenues was the increase in bioethanol production. However, very low bioethanol prices which could not be offset by lower raw material prices put a strain... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 20, 2015
Joule has announced the successful results from third-party testing of its ethanol fuel, setting the stage to obtain certification for commercial use. Initiated by AUDI, Joule's strategic partner in the automotive space, the test results confirm that Joule's ethanol meets the following standards in the US and Europe, respectively:
- American Society for Testing and Materials... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 14, 2015
Biotechnology company Dyadic International has announced details regarding 2G Biopic, a new advanced biofuels project funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme.
In the 2G Biopic project, Dyadic's subsidiary Dyadic Netherlands will work in collaboration with Compagnie Industrielle de Matière Végétale (CIMV) and five other industry partners... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 14, 2015
SJC Bioenergia, a joint venture between Cargill and Group USJ, has purchased technology from Fluid Quip Process Technologies (FQPT) 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 systems. The combined... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 8, 2015
Renmatix, a technology licensor for the conversion of biomass into cellulosic sugar, has acquired existing assets of the former Mascoma 56,000ft2 manufacturing facility in Rome, New York.
The new feedstock processing facility is dedicated to the first step in conversion to cellulosic sugar (from different types of biomass materials) utilising proprietary Plantrose process... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 8, 2015
Pacific Ethanol, a producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the western United States, has begun commercial production of corn oil at its Madera, California plant.
The corn oil production process utilises Valicor's proprietary VFRAC corn oil recovery system.
Neil Koehler, the company's president and CEO, says: 'We are pleased to be producing corn oil at our... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 8, 2015
Associated British Foods (ABF) has completed a contract with BP to acquire its 47% stake in Vivergo Fuels. ABF is now the majority shareholder with 94%.
Mark Chesworth, MD of Vivergo, says: 'With our shareholder's support, we've steadily ramped up production and are now operating at full capacity, producing enough bioethanol to meet around half of the UK's current demand... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 6, 2015
Novozymes has announced a deal to supply enzyme technology to a new biorefinery that will be built by St1 Biofuels in Kajaani, Finland.
The facility will be co-located at a sawmill site, and will be the first facility in the world to use sawdust from softwood as feedstock to produce cellulosic ethanol at commercial scale.
The process uses steam-explosion to open up the... [Read More]
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