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The first biodiesel pump in the state of Maharashtra, India is set to arrive by the end of the year. It will be operated by My Eco Energy in the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad and the biodiesel is set to be produced via treated waste materials, including vegetable oils and animal fats. Santosh Verma, a director of My Eco Energy, said during a media address: ‘A biodiesel plant will be set up via…
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Multi-national company Cargill has begun operating its corn wet mill ethanol plant in Iowa, US.  It purchased the idled facility from global ingredients supplier Tate and Lyle back in 2011. The plant, according to Cargill, will provide the base load corn grind for the campus and will eventually support additional business growth in the future. ‘When full production capacity is reached,…
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Scientists at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have acquired 200 hectares of coastal land in the Western Region to set up a demonstration farm with aims to start producing sustainable jet fuel from plants. The Integrated Seawater Energy and Agriculture System Project plans to be 100% sustainable once operational, using aquaculture to eventually produce biofuels. The AED64.2 million…
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Corn prices in the US are trading near the lowest level in over three years, with several reports believing this is because farmers have accelerated harvesting of a potential record crop. The US Department of Agriculture is believed to confirm its forecast increase for corn in early November, with country-wide corn production reportedly set to rise by 28% to a record 13.8 billion bushels. It is…
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US-based technology provider Monsanto and plant genomics company Evogene are to extend and expand a research and development collaboration involving biofuels feedstocks up to August 2016.  The collaboration, initially signed in 2008, has focused on identifying key plant genes related to yield, environmental stress and fertiliser use in corn, soyabean, canola and also cotton. The new…
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Renewable energy company Darling International has completed the purchase of the rendering and biodiesel division of Maple Leaf Foods. In a statement, Darling says it acquired Rothsay for approximately $645 million (€467.7 million) in cash. Darling CEO Randall Stuewe believes the addition ‘will bring new solutions and opportunities to our many customers across North…
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Austria-based Vogelbusch Biocommodities has announced the opening of a bioethanol plant in Alejandro Roca, Argentina this October. The plant, owned by producing company Promaíz, has a capacity of 420,000 litres per day which makes it the largest of its kind in the country. The facility uses ethanol technology licensed by Vogelbusch designed for both high performance in terms of primary…
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Butamax Advanced Biofuels, a biobutanol technology company, has met with officials of the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2014 RVO targets this October. This comes after recent news reports have claimed industry stakeholders and market participants were concerned over a potential lowering of cellulosic and conventional ethanol…
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The RSB Services Foundation, the implementing entity of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), a global sustainability standard and certification system for biofuels and biomaterials production, has awarded Camelina Company España (CCE) its sustainability certification. CCE, a renewable fuels and chemicals group, pioneered the manufacturing and marketing of fuel and chemicals…
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ICM, a biorefinery technology provider, has announced a contract with Illionois-based Patriot Renewable Fuels upon the purchase of its selective milling technology (SMT). SMT is a value-added ICM platform technology investment which ICM claims increases ethanol yield, reduces viscosity and increases oil recovery for its customers. 'ICM's SMT platform technology is an investment that we…
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Research from the Public University of Navarre in Europe has reportedly shown that genetically modified tobacco plants are viable as raw material for producing biofuels. Ruth Sanz-Barrio, an agricultural engineer of the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and a researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology, has demonstrated the viability of using specific tobacco proteins (known as thioredoxins)…
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It is believed the Ukraine may not be able to rely on its molasses feedstock to produce enough bioethanol for 2014. Mykola Tychenko, a director at Ukrprodspilka, was quoted as saying the country’s molasses harvest forecast amounts to around 400,000-500,000 tonnes. ‘If all of this was used to produce bioethanol we’d only make 100,000 tonnes,’ he says, which would equate to…
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Market and technology company BDI-BioEnergy International has signed a contract with Croatian government representatives to kick-start a pioneering biodiesel pioneer project in the country. The project is set to establish the largest multi-feedstock biodiesel plant both in Croatia and south-east Europe and will cost approximately €20 million ($27 million). The total capacity of the plant has…
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