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Mewah International, a palm oil refining business in Malaysia, is set to acquire a biodiesel plant from alternative fuel processing company Gomedic. The deal is reported to be in the region of $13 million (£9.7 million) and includes over 25,000 m3 of land. The purchase will be completed in the first quarter of 2014. Mewah believes the plant is ‘strategically located’ near its…
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Brazil-based construction business Odebrecht is believed to be planning to separate the cogeneration from its sugar and ethanol operations to create a new bioelectricity company.Odebrecht currently produces 816MW of electricity by burning the sugarcane bagasse left over from its production of sugar, but it is believed the 2013/14 harvest will be able to generate about 1700GW of…
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Deinove, a technological company which designs, develops and markets industrial processes based on Deinococci bacteria, has revealed its plant chemistry development programme has been chosen by the French Enivronment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) and the General Investment Commission. The programme, called Deinochem, will aim to produce a new generation of chemical compounds which can be…
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Petrotec, a European producer of waste-based biodiesel predominantly from used cooking oil, announced revenues at group level of €144.6 million for the first nine months of 2013. This new total is up €21 million for the same time last year. The company also generated an operating profit (EBIT) of €6.2 million in the first nine months of 2013 (up €3.1 million on 2012). Petrotec…
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Neste Oil, a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission traffic fuels, is to promote the deployment of sustainable aviation biofuels in the Netherlands after committing to a Dutch initiative for the sector. Neste is to explore the production opportunities for aviation biofuel and scaling up production. Its renewable fuel refinery in Rotterdam could…
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It has been reported biodiesel entering the US from Argentina could double reach double the amount recorded a year ago. Figures released by Bloomberg Businessweek state 450,000 tonnes of the renewable fuel will appear on the US market through December, way up from the 221,000 tonnes recorded in 2012. Despite this news, Argentina’s annual export figure is expected to fall from 1.5 million…
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The Tampa Port Authority has revealed the Tampa Gateway Rail has moved almost 4 million barrels of ethanol during its first year in operation. The project, which cost $11 million (€8.1 million) and stretches two miles, moves product from ships to railroad tank cars while serving both the port’s cargo container facility and a Kinder Morgan Energy storage tank facility. The rail facility…
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US-based Adkins Energy has been awarded a $500,000 (€371,945) Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP) grant to begin construction on a $4.5 million biodiesel plant on the east side of its Illinois campus. The 2 million gallon facility is expected to begin production in spring 2014. The company’s ethanol arm currently produces 1.5 million gallons of distillers corn oil a year, which…
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Ecopetrol reports it has been awarded a patent from the Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Trade for a technology which makes it possible generate biofuels by refining vegetable oils and heavy oil fractions (such as gas oils) in a single process. The development, called Process for hydrotreating vegetable oil mixed with heavy oil fractions is the third patent related to biofuels that the…
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Boeing and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes are to work together to speed the research, development and approval of new sources of sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil. Their collaboration will support GOL's plans to use this lower-carbon jet fuel on more flights during upcoming major sporting events, including the 2014 football World Cup, and also will benefit long-term development of a new…
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A report from a technical committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is, according to non-governmental organisations, under-estimating the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by palm oil grown on tropical peatlands by nearly 50%. The low emissions estimate stems from a technical committee on wetlands of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the IPCC which…
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Sugar producer Roxas has sold 31% of its 66% share in Roxas Holdings to Hong Kong-based First Pacific PHP2.23 billion (€37.8 million). Pedro Roxas, executive chairman of Roxas, says the move ‘ends the group’s long search for a strategic partner and will accelerate our plan to be the dominant sugar company in the Philippines’. The move reportedly paves the way for the…
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Imperium Renewables will move ahead with plans to expand its business at the US Port of Grays Harbour despite the Shoreline Hearings Board’s decision to require additional permitting work. Imperium Terminal Services submitted permit applications for the construction of new storage tanks, rail infrastructure and office space over 10 acres within the port and adjacent to its existing…
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