Greenfield Global reached an agreement with Central Farm Service (CFS) for the supply of corn to its newly acquired ethanol plant in the US. Greenfield acquired the Winnebago plan in Minnesota and has started the production of renewable ethanol. The Winnebago plant has a production capacity of 48 million gallons per year, which mainly serves the low-carbon fuel marketplace. CFS... [Read More]

IKEA UAE, one of the world’s best-known and loved home furnishing brands, aims to cut its CO2 emissions in the UAE by up to 90% on the way to its ultimate goal of emission-free deliveries by 2025. Farjad Shah, sustainability developer of IKEA UAE, said the company has been using Neutral Fuels B100 Net Zero Biofuel in their delivery vehicles that transport goods from... [Read More]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a finalised extension to the Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) compliance deadlines for 2019, 2020, 2021, and for 2022. The 2019 RVO compliance deadline for small refineries was originally set for November 30, 2021, and the 2020 RVO compliance deadline for all obligated parties was previously set for January 31,... [Read More]

The continued dryness in South America has led the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to revise the forecast of global soybean production considerably downward. Expectations for world trade, processing and season-ending stocks were adjusted accordingly. In its latest report, the USDA significantly lowered its forecast of global soybean supply and demand. The biggest... [Read More]

Brazilian has signed into law a measure to reduce the country's mandatory biodiesel content in diesel to 10% for this year - a setback for biofuels and oilseeds producers. Brazil was supposed to adopt a 14% biofuel mix in diesel from March, but its National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) decided to keep a 10% content due to high soybean prices and its potential impact on... [Read More]

Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) and GAIL have joined forces to set-up a bioethanol plant with a 500 kilo litres per day (KLD) capacity. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for setting up the new bioethanol plant in Gujarat and cooperation in other business areas of mutual interest was signed recently. The plant will use corn/broken rice as feedstock with... [Read More]

Delta Cargo has launched a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) programme to help grow the supply and availability of the ‘green’ fuel. This programme will help cargo customers reduce their environmental footprint and create a more sustainable future. Bio-based jet fuel production is a renewable process and can reduce life cycle emissions up to 75% compared to fossil... [Read More]

Eni's Venice biorefinery in Porto Marghera has delivered a shipment of 5,000 litres of pure HVO hydrogenated biofuel to Fiumicino airport in Italy. This will further add to the decarbonisation of road vehicles at the airport. The HVO hydrogenated biofuel will be used in ADR assistance vehicles to transport passengers with reduced mobility around the airports. HVO is... [Read More]

Participants will have an opportunity to join the digitalisation journey and visit Neste’s refinery and Technology Centre during the third day of the Petrochemical and Refining Congress (PRC) Europe 2022. The plant is located in the Kilpilahti industrial area in Porvoo, Finland, and the event will be on 1 June. For the second consecutive year, PRC Europe is co-hosted... [Read More]

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has unveiled her 2022 Biofuel Access Bill (HSB 594) to continue Iowa’s national leadership in providing widespread access to higher biofuel blends. This includes offering E15 statewide by 2026 and updating the E15 promotion tax credit to $0.09 (€0.08) per gallon year-round through 2025. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor released the following... [Read More]

Iberia is looking to expand its development of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) by using waste, recycled used oils, and other sustainable plant-based feedstocks. Iberia signed a strategic alliance with Cepsa, one of Spain’s leading aviation fuel suppliers. The airline is looking to fly 10% of all its operations using SAF by 2030. Both parties will research and develop... [Read More]

Liebherr will be expanding its use of Neste MY Renewable Diesel to include its plant in Kirchdorf. The company develops and manufactures about 2,500 machines, such as hydraulic excavators, material handling machines and articulated trucks annually. Neste-produced renewable diesel will be used in testing as well as in all plant traffic. Liebherr has already been powering... [Read More]

Crown Iron Works is paving the way on pretreatment of fats, oils, and alternative feedstocks for the renewable fuels industry. While many of these feedstocks have been around for ages, only in recent decades have they been transformed into high quality transportation fuels. In the early 2000s, biodiesel was gaining popularity. Crown adapted its core oils and fats technology... [Read More]

VARO Energy Group and GPS Group, a growing storage and logistics provider, have announced the successful completion of a new railway line and ethanol storage tanks, which will be operated as of 1 February. Located in the Port of Amsterdam, the world’s largest trading and blending hub for fuels, this new infrastructure is state-of-the-art and one of very few rail facilities... [Read More]

It has been revealed that around 7% from 1.4 billion ha of crops such as grain, oilseeds, protein, sugar and fibre plants, fruits, vegetables, nuts and others were grown worldwide went into biofuels production in 2020. Biofuel production is mostly located in countries where there is already a surplus of feedstock (especially maize, soy and palm oil) and legally prescribed... [Read More]

A new list shows the trucks, buses, engines, and other commercial vehicles that have been approved by the manufacturers to run on higher blends of biodiesel. These range from Caterpillar to DEUTZ, MAN and MTU to Scania and Volvo. They can be fuelled with a proportion of 10 percent (B10), 20 percent (B20), 30 percent (B30) or pure biodiesel (B100). By using biodiesel,... [Read More]