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Methes Energies says it will start offering epoxidized soyabean oil (ESO) and natural polyol from its facility in Sombra, Ontario. Both of these bio-based products help address growing global demand for the replacement of non-sustainable products, such as fossil fuel chemicals, across a wide range of industries. Among other things, ESO can be used in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC)…
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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 owned by Cristal Union…
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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, which allow us to expand…
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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 of storage capacity, are…
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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 Fuels. The carbon…
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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 opening up opportunities…
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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 by the UN Food and…
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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 in production and…
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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 implement Aras as an…
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Gevo, a renewable chemicals and next-generation biofuels company, has priced its underwritten public offering of common stock units. The company announced that it has agreed to sell 4,300,000 common stock units. Each common stock unit consists of one share of common stock and one-tenth of a Series C warrant to purchase one share of common stock at a public offering price of $4.00 per common stock…
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Global Bioenergies and Audi announce that the first batch of renewable petrol has been produced. It will be presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference to be held in Pomacle on the 21 May. The first isobutene batch produced from renewable resources (here: corn-derived glucose) at Global Bioenergies' industrial pilot in Pomacle-Bazancourt, near Reims in France, had been…
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Aemetis, an advanced renewable fuels and biochemicals company, has announced that biodiesel sales activity is accelerating in India with truck operators in the logistics industry. Aemetis has expanded sales activity in India since January 2015 when the Government of India allowed biodiesel manufacturers to sell to customers directly, without distributing through the three national oil marketing…
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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 on the result. EBITDA…
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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 (ASTM) D4806 –…
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