Jul 29, 2010
Cargill receives ISCC certification for palm oil
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Jul 29, 2010
Based in California, US, clean energy company and biodiesel producer Universal Bioenergy has signed a letter of intent to acquire Norcor Technologies, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Focused on the biodiesel, transport fuel and energy market, Norcor is reported to be in contact with the US military with regards to the possibility of a deal that would see... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2010
Freedom Environmental Services has commenced its weekly delivery of an estimated 12,000 gallons of yellow grease to biodiesel producer Pristine Biodiesel.
As stated in the contract, Freedom is to receive $1.75 (€1.34) for every gallon delivered to Pristine, which will then convert the grease into biodiesel. The several thousand gallons of biodiesel produced will fuel... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2010
The Netherlands-based oil and petrochemical storage provider Vopak is increasing storage capacity in South America.
Vopak Brazil is expanding its Alemoa (Santos) and Aratu port terminals.
At Alemoa capacity has grown by 37,200 m3 or 30%, the additional volume being distributed in 12 tanks of 3,100 m3 each.
In addition Vopak also purchased 20,000 m2 of land next to the... [Read More]
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Jul 28, 2010
Following a 60% growth in 2008, the EU’s production of ethanol continued to grow last year and increased 31% to 3.7 billion litres up from 2.8 billion litres in 2008.
While a number of countries, including Austria and Sweden, dramatically increased their ethanol output capacity in 2009, France remains the biggest manufacturer. The nation increased its ethanol output... [Read More]
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Jul 28, 2010
A number of environmental organisations and companies, including small engine manufacturers and food producers, have joined forces in an attempt to discourage Congress and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from promoting the widespread consumption of E15.
In the groups’ first ad, ‘Say no to untested E15’, they state that the ethanol blend should only... [Read More]
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Jul 27, 2010
One species of the most abundant plant on earth, grass, is under examination in a new US Department of Energy (DoE) test.
Switchgrass has been planted on 1,000 acres by researchers at the University of Tennessee to assess how improved varieties could lead to cheaper biofuels production.
The planting is part of a US DoE project aiming to make biofuels production more... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
In the US the Minnesota Department of Agriculture estimates that the state will gain $600 million (€465 million) from the growth of its ethanol industry this year.
It estimates production will increase to 1.1 billion gallons in 2010 with an economic impact of $3.1 billion, and providing 1,500 additional jobs.
In 2009 Minnesota's ethanol industry generated more... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
The US department of energy (DoE) will pump $106 million (€82 million) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment into six projects which will convert captured carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilisers.
The funds were matched with $156 million in private cost-share.
Converting captured... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
On the surface it all seems good news for Europe’s biodiesel industry with capacity growth at 16.6%, but a worrying number of idled plants put its true potential at bay.
The total production figure of 9 million tonnes is overshadowed by the EU27’s two-thirds idle capacity, said to be due in part to unfair trade practices on the global biodiesel market.
The European... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
German specialty chemicals company Süd-Chemie is to build Germany´s largest second generation ethanol plant.
As from the end of 2011, this large-scale demonstration plant, located in the immediate vicinity of the new Bavarian BioCampus in Straubing, will produce up to 2,000 tonnes of bioethanol from agricultural waste, such as cereal straw.
The project comprises an... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
From September the Kenya Pipeline Company’s depots in Eldoret, Kisumu and Nakuru will begin blending 10% ethanol with petrol.
To meet the national requirement of 10% ethanol blend, Kenya’s national production will need to triple.
The two largest producers of ethanol in Kenya are Spectre International at 7.1 mgy and Agrochemical and Food Co. with 5.7 mgy production.... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
The world’s largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft Boeing expects 1% of fuel used by commercial airlines to be sourced from biomass by 2015.
‘We need to get to 1% to get that foundation and then the trajectory will be significantly steeper,’ Billy Glover, MD of environmental strategy at Boeing’s commercial airplanes unit, says. ‘We’re... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2010
Fuel provider Exousia Advanced Materials headquartered in New York, US, has nearly completed its new biodiesel production facility, which is expected to begin operations later on in the year.
Maintenance and re-tooling of the plant, which is located in South Carolina, are well underway and will start delivering biodiesel orders in August.
Wayne Rodrigue, chairman and... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2010
In a bid to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, British Airways (BA) has teamed up with Solena Group, a renewable energy producer, to construct a waste-to-biofuels plant.
Solena will invest around $300 million (€233.9 million) in the plant and is already considering two potential sites, both located close by to Dagenham, east London, UK.
The plant will produce... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2010
In Taubate, Brazil, biofuel producer BioVerde Industria e Commercio de Biocumbustiveis SA is to purchase Companhia Petroquimica do Nordeste (Copenor) for 23.5 million reais (€10.3 million).
The acquisition comes as BioVerde aims to dramatically increase its biodiesel production capacity 14 times over by Q4 2011. By June 2012 the company wants to be producing 1.2 billion... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2010
On 17 July this year a biodiesel project commenced that will see BNSF Railway test Montana, US-made biodiesel produced by biofuels manufacturer Earl Fisher Biofuels.
20% of the fuel will be blended with conventional diesel and used in one of BNSF Railway’s switch engines at the Havre Depot.
Throughout the year Montana State University-Northern’s BioEnergy Center... [Read More]
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