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Weiser Energy Partners, a business dedicated to the production of sustainable energy based in South Carolina, US, is looking to build a biofuel plant in Cumberland County. The new commercial-scale plant would convert branches, construction debris and restaurant grease into 1.5 million gallons of biodiesel annually. This would be Weiser Energy’s first large-scale production facility and,…
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Following the closure of the Mendota, Illinois-based Spreckles Sugar plant two years ago, resulting in 200 job losses, the Mendota Advanced Bioenergy Beet Cooperative (ABBC) is now looking to inject new life into the facility. The group of farmers known as the ABBC are expected to receive a state grant of $1.5 million (€1.15 million) that will see work start on the derelict plant. When…
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An idle biodiesel plant in Lilbourn, Missouri, US, has now reopened after three years under the new name ME Bio Energy. The $7 million (€5.36 million) facility was acquired in May earlier this year before it began producing at its full capacity of 5.2 million gallons a year in July. Plant manager Jerry McDowell said that the plant manufacturers approximately 14,000 gallons of biofuels each…
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State-owned Russian Technologies is set to build a biobutanol production facility in Russia, which, when finished, will be the first of its kind in the nation. Construction in the Irkutsk region in Siberia will commence in March 2011 before it starts manufacturing the biofuel from wood chips and other timber by-products. ‘As far as timber, we have enough of it to produce biofuels,’…
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Delegates registering for the upcoming Bioenergy International Canada expo & conference can start networking straight away! Using pre-event software delegates can set-up meetings and contact other visitors, delegates, speakers and exhibitors, maximising networking opportunities at this event. Biofuels International Canada expo & conference is now only days away on the 28-29th September.…
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Bioethanol producer CropEnergies has increased its revenues in the first half of the current 2010/11 financial year (1 March – 31 August 2010) by 16.5% to €215 million. This is a significant increase from the previous year’s €184 million. The operating result reached €17 million. For the full financial year 2010/11, CropEnergies has increased its outlook for revenues and profit, with…
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On 20 September 2010 TMO Renewables, a developer of a new process for converting biomass into ethanol for transportation fuel, entered into a 20-year exclusive contract with clean tech company Fiberight. The contract could be worth in excess of $25 million (€19.09 million) a year and will see Fiberight design and build a number of US-based bioethanol refineries. The plants will combine the…
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Leading global publication Biofuels International magazine has just boosted its market position by becoming the only one in the biofuels sector to be independently audited. The magazine has just gone through an independent audit of its circulation with BPA, the global industry resource for verified audience data and media knowledge. This proves that 10 times a year the magazine is sent out to…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is now less than a week away – don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn from and network with biofuels experts from throughout Canada and the US. Starting on Tuesday the 28th September at the Coast Plaza Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, the day conference and exhibition features speakers including Bruce McEwen, Oil, gas and alternative energy division,…
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Biodiesel producer Renewable Energy Group (REG) is to acquire biodiesel assets from Ares Corporation. Burlingame, California-based Ares is an engineering, risk management, software/IT and project management firm, which will invest an additional $8 million (€5.99 million) into REG in an all common stock transaction. Ares previously owned the 15 million gallon-a-year facility in Clovis, New…
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Canadian biofuel specialist Enerkem has just begun construction on what it claims will be the world's first industrial-sized plant capable of converting non-recyclable municipal waste into advanced biofuels. The plant, in Edmonton, can produce 10 million gallons of 5% ethanol-petrol blend biofuel a year, providing enough fuel for 400,000 cars while also helping to meet renewable fuel…
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Thailand-based Bangchak Petroleum is planning to invest approximately Bt2 billion (€48.7 million) in the acquisition of at least two ethanol plants by 2011. The company currently sells 95-octane petrol but plans to stop doing so by 2012 as ethanol demand for transportation fuel is expected to increase from 200,000 barrels per day in 2009 to 400,000 barrels per day. According to Bangchak’s…
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In Hereford, Texas, US, oil and gas production firm Murphy Oil has acquired an ethanol production facility that was formerly owned by Panda Ethanol. Construction work was continuously postponed due to delays and financial issues but the VP of Murphy Oil Mindy West explained that it will finish work on the plant before operations are expected to start by the end of 2010. It has been estimated…
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