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Biodiesel producer and marketer Renewable Energy Group (REG) announced it has entered into an agreement with Dutch Hill Terminals, a heating oil terminal in New Jersey, to market biodiesel and biodiesel blended heating oil at its Clifton, New Jersey location. 'This terminal position will give us additional capacity to serve the existing markets in the Northeast and prepare for potential growth…
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Green Biologics, a UK-based technology developer and emerging bio-based C4 chemicals producer, has secured a £15.4 million (€18 million) investment which will allow them to begin executing plans to bring their first commercial production facility in the US on-stream in 2016. The investment round is led by Sofinnova Partners with strategic participation by Swire Pacific. Follow on…
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Engineering and technology solutions provider China New Energy (CNE) has won two contracts to develop biorefinery projects in Hungary. The value of the two contracts, signed with Visontai Bioetanol and Helvéciai, is worth €72 million ($97.2 million) over a four year period. CNE has already completed designs for both projects as part of the tendering process. The Visontai project will…
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Green Plains Renewable Energy has announced the completion of its acquisition of two 110 MMgy ethanol plants previously owned by Biofuel Energy. The transaction includes the Pioneer Trail Energy plant in Wood River, Nebraska, and the Buffalo Lake Energy facility in Fairmont, Minnesota, both US. Green Plains purchased the plants from an entity composed of BioFuel Energy's lender group. According…
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US-based Renewable Energy Group (REG) cut the ribbon on a new barge loading facility at the company’s Illinois biorefinery in November. The gathering, during the opening ceremony, witnessed the first barge shipment of 420,000 gallons of biodiesel from the multi-feedstock, 60 million gallon annual capacity plant located by the Illinois river. The barge loading facility will be supported by…
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Global technology provider of specialised biofuels and renewable chemicals, Biochemtex, is to invest around $200 million (€147 million) in its new cellulosic biofuels plant in Sampson County, North Carolina, US. The firm will operate at the location as Carolina Cellulosic Biofuels, established in early 2013 as a special purpose vehicle for delivering the first commercial-scale cellulosic…
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Biofuel developer LanzaTech has announced it is 'the first' to have its jet biofuel certified by the independent Roundtable on Sustainable Biomass (RSB). The company's new biofuel plant near Beijing, according to airline partner Virgin Atlantic, has secured the certification by confirming the fuel does not negatively impact the food chain or contribute to deforestation. LanzaTech…
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Researchers at two leading Scottish universities have embarked on a £1.1m (€1.3 million) project to find a clean and effective way of producing biofuel using solar energy. Robert Gordon University (RGU) experts Professor Linda Lawton and Professor Peter Robertson, alongside University of St Andrews Professor John Irvine, have been awarded funding by the Engineering and Physical…
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A blaze at a biodiesel manufacturing plant in Arizona, US broke out on 16 November. It is believed a forklift punctured a 330 gallon tank containing an unidentified chemical which sparked the fire, which set off the plant’s sprinkler system. Local firefighting crews and a hazardous materials team responded to clean up the leftover damage and to secure the site. Gilbert Fire division chief…
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Argentina, one of the world's leading biodiesel producers, will require a 10% biodiesel blend in fuel burned for power generation, according to government officials. In a bid to boost the struggling biofuels sector and increase the use of 'green fuels', the blending requirement for biofuel in the diesel used to run local vehicles will also be stepped to 10% in January, planning minister Julio de…
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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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