Jan 26, 2015
Alkol starts shipping of EUnergyCane
Bioethanol News
Jan 22, 2015
Green Biologics (GBL) has secured a total of $76 million (€65 million) in debt and equity financing.
The renewable chemicals company closed an internal follow-on equity round of $42 million co-led by Swire Pacific and Sofinnova Partners. Existing investors Capricorn Venture Partners, Oxford Capital Partners, Morningside Technology Partners and ConvergInce Holdings,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 22, 2015
A semi-truck tanker carrying ethanol caught fire on 19 January.
Surrounding roads had to be closed in both directions while firefighters put out the flames. It remained closed following the incident as a safety precaution while the tank cooled.
The trailer's brakes caught fire and ignited the trailer's passenger side tires, where the fire was contained.
There was no structural... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 21, 2015
On 20 January, several fire crews responded to a fire at Big Rivers Resources' ethanol plant in Boyceville, Wisconsin, US.
Reports from the Boyceville Fire Department say that the fire was started by a bearing on a motor that caught fire in a duct. The plant was shut down and evacuated.
No one was injured.
The fire was contained inside the building. To date, no damage... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 21, 2015
Edeniq, a biorefining and cellulosic technology company, has raised more than $16 million (€13.8 million) in equity.
The funding will support the roll-out of Edeniq's Pathway Platform, which increases ethanol yield at existing plants by 3-6% through the conversion of starch and cellulosic corn kernel fibre into ethanol.
The equity investment was led by I2BF Global... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 20, 2015
A fire broke out on the 19 January at the Illinois River Energy plant in Rochelle, Ogle County, Illinois.
Emergency services responded to the fire and remained on the scene for a little over an hour.
The fire started in a grain room of the ethanol plant after corn had been burnt following an electrical fault.
No injuries were reported.
There was minor damage to some of... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 20, 2015
The Zimbabwean government has given Zimbabwe Bio-Energy, a joint venture between a group of private investors and the Development Trust of Zimbabwe, the go-ahead to develop its $500 million (€432 million) ethanol plant project in Nuanetsi Ranch in Mwenezi.
The project, which will be the largest in the country, is expected to have more than 5000 employees and promote... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 13, 2015
Gevo, the world's only commercial producer of renewable isobutanol, has released an update on the progress of the Side-by-Side operational mode (SBS) of its plant in Luverne, Minnesota.
The isobutanol producer announced that the facility produced over 50,000 gallons of isobutanol in December 2014.
Last June, Gevo started the co-production of isobutanol and ethanol at the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 13, 2015
Low carbon renewable fuels producer Pacific Ethanol has made an agreement with Dresser-Rand to install a 3.5MW cogeneration system with gradual oxidiser at its Stockton, California plant for approximately $12 million (€10.2 million).
The cogeneration system will displace purchased electricity by using Ener-Core's gradual oxidiser technology to convert waste gas from... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 12, 2015
A number of fire crews responded to a fire on 8 January at the Sunoco ethanol plant in Volney, Oswega County, New York.
At least eight crews were called to the scene, where a fire had started in an empty warehouse section of the plant.
No injuries were reported. ... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 7, 2015
A joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and Cosan, called Raizen, plans to spend nearly $1 billion (€846 million) on constructing ethanol production facilities to increase its biofuel output by 50%, according to the Financial Times.
Over the next ten years, Cosan intends to build eight ethanol plants, for an estimated cost of $930 million.
The plants will produce... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 5, 2015
The joint project focuses on the development of an integrated, sustainable biorefinery for local lignocellulosic feedstocks.
Russian and Indian scientists will join forces to develop technologies for producing fuels and chemicals from biomass within a 3-year period for a biorefinery project.
Representatives of the Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of the Russian... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 5, 2015
The US branch of Green Biologics, a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK biotechnology and renewable chemicals company, has closed its acquisition of the assets of Central MN Ethanol Cooperative (CMEC) in Minnesota.
Green Biologics intends to repurpose the operation, which includes a 21 million gallon per year ethanol plant, to produce renewable n-butanol and acetone, utilising... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 5, 2015
Pacific Ethanol, producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in Western US, and Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, a Midwest-based producer of ethanol and related co-products, have entered into a definitive merger agreement.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, Pacific Ethanol expects to issue approximately 17.75 million shares of its common stock upon closing... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 5, 2015
A small fire broke out at Didion Ethanol's plant in Cambria, Wisconsin, US, which resulted in a brief evacuation.
The fire ignited at approximately 4am on 28 December inside the ethanol plant. Only a small crew of workers was on duty at the time and all were evacuated. The plant's operations then resumed about two hours later.
Company officials are investigating how the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 18, 2014
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) has published a report detailing 40 different options that it suggests could boost the US's ethanol mandate.
The BPC said it set out to find a 'middle ground' for reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), after advocates have pushed for complete abolition of the law or for no changes at all.
'Given the technical complexity and political... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 18, 2014
Raízen, as large-scale sugarcane ethanol producer, and Iogen, a cellulosic biofuel technology developer, have begun production of cellulosic ethanol at Raízen’s newly expanded sugarcane mill in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Raízen started expansion works on the $100 million (€81 million) biomass-to-ethanol mill just over one year... [Read More]
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