Bioethanol News

Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is investing €32 million in a new demonstration plant, to be built in Louisiana, US, following its recent acquisition of biotechnology association Virdia. The plant will be used to validate, on an industrial scale, Virdia's technology. This newly acquired extraction and separation process enables cellulosic biomass, such as wood and rural waste,…
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Flint Hills Resources, a refining, chemicals and grain processing company, has signed an agreement with Southwest Georgia Ethanol to acquire its ethanol plant in Camilla in the US state of Georgia. The plant opened in 2008 and is able to produce 100 million gallons a year of ethanol. It also produces more than 275,000 tonnes of dried distillers grains and approximately 25 million pounds of…
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Eco-Energy, a US-based biofuel supply chain company, has announced the development of an ethanol unloading, storage, and outbound truck loading facility in Augusta, Georgia. This facility will serve the Augusta and Savannah markets in Georgia. The ethanol unit train facility will be equipped to receive up to 80 tank cars via Norfolk Southern Railway for distribution by truck to the local gasoline…
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Corn Oil One has begun constructing its new distillers corn oil facility, based in Iowa, US. The new plant, expected online early next year, will be one of the first to purify constituents out of distillers corn oil via a patent-pending process. The plant is co-located with Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy's (SIRE) ethanol plant and, in addition to removing high-value co-products, it also…
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In India, Numaligarh Refinery (NRL), a Government of India Enterprise, and Finnish biorefinery technology corporation Chempolis have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU). Under the MoU, the two companies have agreed to jointly study and build a biorefinery in Assam, northeastern India, which will produce cellulosic ethanol from locally sourced biomass – namely bamboo. Bamboo is one of…
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Energy Management Solutions (EMS), a subsidiary of ICM, has signed two new plant management agreements with Red River Energy, Rosholt, South Dakota and Midwest Renewable Energy, Sutherland, Nebraska. The Red River Energy ethanol plant, which has a current operating capacity of 25 million gallons per year, will shortly restart full production after an 18-month idle period. The Midwest Renewable…
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Buffalo Lake Advanced Biofuels has restarted its Minnesota, US plant. Repairs and upgrades have been installed and tested on the plant since June. The 18 MMgy plant was originally idled in 2009. It was then purchased by Purified Renewable Energy and run briefly in 2012. The company then filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and the facility was bought by West Ventures, one of the companies'…
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Swedish Taurus Energy has partnered with France-based CIMV, and sent a proposal to the EU Commission detailing the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of ethanol from biomass. The plan is for the demonstration plant will be built in France. Taurus Energy will be responsible for the yeast-based fermentation step in the process and the demonstration plant will be built in…
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The Lufthansa Group is operating its LH 190 flight from Frankfurt to Berlin Tegel using a 10% blend of the new biofuel component farnesane. This is the first scheduled flight in Europe to run on this sugar-based bio-kerosene fuel mix. A rig test at Lufthansa Technik's facility in Hamburg last year, as part of the EU's 'Blending Study' project preceded Lufthansa's flight. Lufthansa has also…
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Biofuels technology providers ICM has commissioned and started production at a dry-mill corn ethanol plant in Cordoba, Argentina. The plant excelled the initial production capacity of 400 cubic metres per day during the testing period. The facility completed construction and installation in February 2014.
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Renewable energy specialist Summit Group will construct a corn ethanol production facility in Brazil. The Iowa-based Summit Group will develop a $140 million (€107 million) plant near Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso.Summit Group will use ICM's technology to power its 50 million gallon per year Brazilian ethanol plant. Initial work on the plant will begin within the next six months and it…
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As demand coming from the US slows, biofuels growth in the 2013-18 period will be modest compared to the 2008-13 period, says the Freedonia Group report. Asia, the Africa/Mideast region and Central and South America will drive global biofuels demand to 115 million tonnes in 2018, up 18.7 million tonnes from 2013 figures, reports the Freedonia Group's new study, 'World Biofuels'. The US –…
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Green Fuel is setting up an ethanol project in Zambia, which will see the company build a $500-million facility. The biodiesel processor supplier entered into a partnership with the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) resulting in the creation of a company called Zimbabwe Bio-Energy in 2008. It is this company that will implement the ethanol project. The move comes after the company was left…
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Refineries in the Iowa, US, will begin full operations using feedstocks other than corn kernels. Iowa has two major cellulosic plants under construction that will use corn plant leaves, stalks and cobs to produce ethanol. Project Liberty, a plant in Emmetsburg built by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based ethanol-maker POET and biotechnology company Royal DSM. The $250 million plant will produce 25…
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