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A bioenergy plant in Hopewell, Virginia is to be auctioned off by city officials in order to recoup nearly $2 million (€1.5 million) in unpaid taxes. Hopewell City Council voted to begin a tax sale of the reported $150 million Osage BioEnergy-owned facility which closed in 2011 without producing a drop of ethanol. City attorney David Fratarcangelo believes the auction will take place within…
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Several projects in Japan on the go since 2008 are perfecting the use a technology that could utilise sago to produce ethanol. President of Bio-Energy Corporation Hideo Noda claims this research on producing bioethanol production from cellulosic materials has been carried out successfully. ‘In our project, a hydro-thermal pre-treatment without adding sulfuric acid had been introduced and…
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Ethanol plant design and management company ICM has had to lay off 25 employees in Colwich, US in response to what it calls slowing growth in the ethanol industry. The company now employs 275 people, down from the 671 it had back in early 2008. In a statement e-mailed to various press outlets, ICM CEO Dave Vander Griend stated the company is focused on retrofitting existing plants and introducing…
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Greenergy has announced plans to penetrate the fuel industry in Canada. From the second quarter of next year, the UK-based supplier of petrol and diesel will begin supplying fossil and biofuels to south western Ontario. Greenergy's first supply location in Canada will be Vopak's Hamilton terminal. From here it will supply E10 petrol, ethanol and ULSD. A number of terminal improvements are to be…
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US-based biofuel and logistics company Eco-Energy has signed a partnership with Copersucar, the largest sugar and ethanol trader in Brazil. By binding their global supply capacity of 2.6 billion gallons the move creates the largest ethanol trader in the world. ‘With this partnership, we become a truly global company in the biofuel market, expanding our scale of operation to the two main…
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Vopak has been awarded the first multisite International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for a number of its storage terminals. The company certified its first terminal in Rotterdam on 13 December 2011. ‘Rotterdam is the biofuels hub of Europe,’ Maurice Houben, Vopak’s sales and marketing manager for global vegoils and biofuels,’ explains. ‘Many…
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The Pakistani government is to implement several new plants with the aim of creating a total of 304MW of electricity from city waste. Many projects are already underway, with an aggregate capacity of 57MW, and the subsequent facilities will create a further 247MW via agricultural, industrial and biogas waste products.  A senior government official stated that agricultural waste projects were…
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Renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris has recorded declining financial results for the third quarter ending September 2012. Aggregate revenues for the quarter were posted at $19.1 million (€15 million) versus $36.3 million in the same quarter 2011. The company puts the decline in revenue down to the planned transition out of the ethanol and ethanol-blended gasoline business, which is…
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Engineering and technology provider Praj Industries is to move into India as it further explores second generation biofuels. A 10 million litres a year demonstration commercial plant represents a continuation of Praj’s lignocellulose to ethanol programme as it seeks ways to produce ethanol from non-food based feedstock. Praj will use the plant to demonstrate technical and commercial…
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Technology supplier Metso is to provide a Swedish combined heat and power plant with a biofuel-fired boiler. The plant, based in Torsvik and owned by Jönköping Energi (JE), is expanding and the new 100MW unit will serve to help meet district heating and electric power needs of Jönköping municipality. The expansion the CHP plant represents a significant investment for the…
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Biorefineries operator Biodico has agreed to develop renewable fuel and technologies with the US Navy on behalf of the US Department of Defence (DoD). Both US Naval and DoD facilities across the globe will benefit from the partnership as it seeks to optimise the operation of sustainable biorefineries that would produce biofuels, energy using renewable resources and other bio-based…
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Biofuels and chemicals company Advanced Bioenergy is expected to sell its Nebraska, US ethanol plant by the end of the year to Flint Hills Resources. The news comes after Advanced Bioenergy wanted to see how much interest would come from a sale after receiving interest from another potential buyer earlier this year. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. The Fairmont-based plant opened…
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A coalition of US biofuel trade organisations have urged House and Senate leaders ‘to stay the course’ on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). A drafted letter claims the RFS as the cornerstone of the association’s efforts to reduce foreign oil dependence and create jobs and economic growth across America. It also tells the Environmental Protection Agency that a waiver of RFS…
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