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Cascade Grain plant in Washington could come back into operation over the next couple of months after being shut down in 2009 because of bankruptcy. JH Kelly Ethanol, a JV between The Industrial Company and JH Kelly Holdings, acquired the plant back in December 2009 and at the time JH Kelly’s president Mason Evans said: ‘We were very disappointed when Cascade Grain succumbed to the…
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Blue Sun Biodiesel will sell its biodiesel at the Cummins Terminal located in Knoxville, Tennessee ‘We’re glad to be bringing our biodiesel, and our way of doing business to Knoxville and the Cummins Terminal,’ says Blue Sun CEO Leigh Freeman. ‘Locating at the Cummins Terminal will give our customers a very convenient and efficient way to meet their biodiesel blending…
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Boeing has signed an agreement to collaborate with Hawai'i BioEnergy to produce renewable fuels, identify biofuel sources and build new technology. The companies plan to examine crops including sorghum and eucalyptus for possible biofuel feedstocks – which can be grown locally in Hawaii in order to be produced into jet biofuel. Boeing vice president of environment and aviation policy, Billy…
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Belgium-based tradeshow operator easyFairs has acquired the market leading bulk liquid storage conference and exhibition, StocExpo. easyFairs will take over the organisation of the 2012 event with immediate effect. International sales manager, Sharé Mason, has transferred to the UK offices of easyFairs in Twickenham and will continue in the success of the 2012 event. UK-based StocExpo…
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South African company Sasol Synfuels has opened its first cobalt catalyst manufacturing facility in Sasolburg which will convert gas to liquids (GTL). The company will supply the catalyst production to Qatar, Nigeria and Uzbekistan; creating 50 permanent jobs in the local South African community in the process. Lean Strauss, Sasol senior group executive, says: ‘Our total capital spend in…
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Adair Turner, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has acknowledged that the aviation sector may be an area in which fossil fuels have to be used, highlighting that we are looking to achieve a 'low carbon economy' and not a 'zero-carbon economy'. At present the UK and EU government budgets for cutting carbon emissions do not stretch to the aviation sector. However, this looks set to…
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Ethanol and bio-refining investment company GTL Resources has been bought by marine business Siem Kapital and fund firm North Atlantic Value (NAV) for £32 million (€36.6 million). Siem and NAV will pay a pound for each share belonging to GTL, which is listed on London’s AIM. GTL produces more than one million gallons of ethanol each year through its subsidiary Illinois River…
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Hawaiian Electric has chosen Renewable Energy Group (REG) to supply biodiesel to the Hawaiian 110MW combustion turbine at the Campbell Industrial Park Generating Station on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. REG will supply 3-7 million gallons of biodiesel to the station over three years. The company is already supplying biodiesel to the facility for other purposes. The biodiesel is produced from used…
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VTTI, Rotary Engineering, Mabanaft, Seaport World Malaysia, Gulf PetroChem, Zurich Insurance and Mott McDonald are just some of the names confirmed to speak at the upcoming Tank Storage Asia expo & conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on  7-8 December. Last year’s successful event proved the level of interest in the bulk liquid storage sector in Asia is the ideal location to bring…
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The USDA said today that it will grant a total of $44.6 million (€32.6 million) in payments to more than 150 biofuels producers in the US to help support them in producing and expanding their developments. Some companies, such as Texas-based White Energy, are being awarded more than $3 million towards ethanol production. Whereas others, such as QB Corporation, based in Idaho, is being given…
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Air China has launched its first demonstration flight using biofuels derived from jatropha grown in China. The biofuel was a drop-in fuel replacement for regular jet fuel, called synthetic paraffinic kerosene, and the airline partnered with Boeing, Honeywell, Civil Aviation Administration of China, PetroChina and technology Pratt & Whitney to get the flight off the ground. The Boeing 747…
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The Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO) has submitted documents to the House Science and Environment Subcommittee for a hearing on motor fuel standards, stating that the Renewable Fuel Standard is working with congress to increase US energy security and economic competitiveness. Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s industrial & environmental section, says:…
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The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has revised its projected sugarcane crush for the 2011/2012 harvest in the south-central region of the country, reducing it by 4.26% in comparison to what it predicted back in August. Instead of an estimated 510.2 million tonnes of sugarcane for the harvest, it is expected that only 488.5 million tonnes will be farmed. This is a more than 12%…
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