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Carrie Song, senior vice-president commercial, renewable products, Neste, speaks to Biofuels International about the latest biofuel developments. How buoyant is the US market for renewable diesel (RD) produced by Neste? Neste has been providing renewable diesel to help heavyduty sectors in the US reduce reliance on fossil diesel since 2012. Over the past decade we’ve seen growing interest…
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As the world races towards netzero, Alfanar is stepping up to play a vital role, building what is set to become Europe’s largest and most advanced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Teesside, UK. This ambitious project is setting a new standard for the aviation industry’s path to decarbonisation. “Aviation remains a notable source of global carbon emissions, and as air travel…
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The reality of a new presidential team entering the White House in January 2025 has created an inevitable degree of uncertainty for biodiesel producers in recent months. The presidential election debate has hardly been strong on policy signals after all and judging how the new president may address the role of biodiesel over the next four years is far from easy. The best starting point,…
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Bill Morphew, global VP sales – liquids segment, CPM Crown, looks back on a successful 12 months at CPM/Crown. Can you outline CPM’s role in biofuel production? CPM’s mission is to feed, fuel and build a better world. Biofuels are central to that mission and it is a market that CPM touches in a variety of ways. In biomass applications, CPM’s equipment is used for particle size…
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Biofuel producers and investors in Europe undoubtedly face a challenging future, although maybe one with a little more hope than has been true of the past decade of high promise and low achievement. For all the ambitious words and targets attached to European biofuels in the recent past, the damming conclusion reached by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) at the end of last year is that most…
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Progress in the biofuels industry towards a more efficient and sustainable future demands the deployment of innovative strategies and collaboration with key partners that can guide this process in a coherent and effective way. Tomsa Destil is a Spanish company with over 170 years of experience providing engineering solutions worldwide for the alcohol and biofuels industry. The company…
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The aviation industry's ongoing shift towards sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), biofuels and ethanol marks a critical step in the global pursuit of environmental sustainability. As the need to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel becomes increasingly urgent, SAF and biofuels offer a promising solution. These alternative fuels are not only environmentally beneficial, but also present…
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Stephen Hickman, chairman of the board for the Pengerang Renewables Complex and Pengerang Energy Complex in Malaysia, speaks to Biofuels International about the new downstream biofuel complex Can you introduce yourself and explain your role in the project? As chairman of the Pengerang Energy Complex (PEC) and the downstream renewable fuels facility at ChemOne Group, I oversee strategic…
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Reaching the UK’s net-zero ambitions is no easy feat. Despite the vital importance of meeting our climate goals as quickly as possible, we must ensure all industries – and indeed all nations across the world – play their part in supporting the global transition to a greener planet. The pressures facing many sectors across the transport industry – an industry which makes up approximately…
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Global transport systems are under huge pressure to decarbonise – aviation in particular. So often the sector is held up as the villain of the climate change story, when in reality it makes up only around 2-3% of carbon emissions worldwide. However, the negative public perceptions remain, and the industry is one of those most determined to transform itself for the sake of building…
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Do not get carried away by your own success when things are going well and do not get too despondent when the tide turns against you. This appears to be the approach to business planning and development, which have stood the North American biodiesel industry in good stead in recent years and best describes the mood of cautious optimism currently flowing through the sector. Despite the…
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“Build it and they will come.” For the last three years, since the Fit-for-55 (Ff55) announcements made it clear that there would be a SAF mandate in the European Union, that phrase seems to have been the mantra for prospective SAF producers. With the UK also busy developing their own post-Brexit mandate, the prevailing paradigm has been that capacity was needed, fast, and a lot of it, to…
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As a low-emission alternative fuel with low-CAPEX investment and the potential to expand the operational lifespan of large portions of the world fleet, biofuels may have an important role to play in shipping’s decarbonisation, but feedstock availability and demand competition from other transport sectors pose challenges that will need to be addressed for widespread adoption, finds Lloyd’s…
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Yvonne Moynihan, corporate and ESG officer of Wizz Air, describes why the airline is adopting new strategies to become cleaner and greener Can you introduce yourself and outline to our readers your role within the company? As the corporate and ESG officer of Wizz Air, along with leading legal, regulatory, corporate and government affairs areas, I oversee Wizz Air’s ESG function and…
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