Nov 12, 2008
ADM and Cabrera form ethanol project
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Nov 12, 2008
Australia-based biofuels producer Mission NewEnergy, formerly Mission Biofuels, has announced that a joint venture with a scientific team in India has successfully produced cellulosic ethanol from agricultural wastes at a pilot-scale facility in northern India.
The project focused on developing a novel conversion process for lingocellulosic feedstocks at the plant, which... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
US-based marketer and producer Pacific Ethanol has increased its Q3 sales and lost more money due to higher demand for ethanol and more expensive corn.
Shares of Pacific Ethanol dropped $0.17 (â?¬0.14) to close at $0.91 after the company reported a hefty loss in early November.
The company lost $54.9 million in the quarter ended 30 September, compared to the... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
Vital Renewable Energy Company (VREC), a new Brazilian company, has secured funding amounting to $1 billion (€799 million) for ethanol and electricity generation projects in Brazil.
The funding was completed by an international consortium of private investors including Paladin Capital Group, Vision Brazil Investments, Leaf Clean Energy Company, Petercam Asset Management... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
Biodiesel manufacturer China Clean Energy has experienced civil engineering setbacks and poor Monsoon season weather delaying construction of its Jiangyin biodiesel plant.
The 30 million gallon a year plant is now expected to begin production in Q2 2009.
The company has another biodiesel plant in China's Fujian Province, which began biodiesel production in 2005... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
Construction has begun on a biofuel refinery in east Tennessee, US, which will use switchgrass, a perennial crop, as a feedstock to produce cellulosic ethanol. The pilot plant is a partnership between DuPont Danisco Cellulosic, the University of Tennessee (UT), and Genera Energy, which aims to produce 250,000 gallons of ethanol by the end of 2009.
DuPont's Danisco... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
Prices of major grains and oilseeds such as corn, wheat, soyabeans, and palm oil that are used to make biofuels are tumbling, indicating green fuels have played virtually no role in the recent global surge in food prices.
Corn and soyabeans have lost more than half of their value, whereas wheat now costs 55% less than at its highpoint in March of this year. Canola fell... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
Kenya expects $500 million (389.4 million Euro's) worth of foreign investments in biofuel crop production over the next two years, a government official has announced. Romano Kiome, permanent secretary in the agriculture ministry, says five multinational firms from the US, Japan, and the UK had applied to be considered in a government land-lease scheme.
Crops such... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
Roxol Bioenergy is investing P1.433 billion (23.2 million Euro's) for the production of bioethanol and potable ethanol to be sold to local oil refining companies and manufacturers in the Philippines.
The project, which is 99.99% owned by the publicly-listed Roxas Holdings, led eight project approvals by the Board of Investments (BOI).
Based on its registration... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
UK-based Isis Innovation, the technology transfer company for the University of Oxford, has announced that researchers in the University's Department of Chemistry have discovered a new way to produce methanol from an industrial waste chemical, glycerol. Presently, 90% of methanol is produced from natural gas, and this new process offers an alternative which does not... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
The transshipment of biofuels in the port of Rotterdam increased in the first half of 2008 from 1 to 2.5 million tonnes. The ratio of ethanol to biodiesel was almost 50/50. The products were manufactured mainly overseas: ethanol in Brazil and biodiesel largely in the US.
Part of the incoming trade was used on the continent and some shipped on further by smaller sea-going... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
US-based agricultural company Monsanto will purchase Brazil-based Aly Participacoes for $290 million (225.3 million Euro's) to invest in sugarcane to feed global demand for raw sugar and biofuels.
Aly Participacoes operates the sugarcane breeding and technology companies, CanaVialis, the world's largest private sugarcane breeding company, and Alellyx, an applied... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
A tree fungus discovered in the Patagonian rainforest in South America has been found to naturally produce a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules similar to diesel.
'This is the only organism that has ever been shown to produce such an important combination of fuel substances,' Gary Strobel, a plant scientist from Montana State University, comments. 'We were... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2008
Biodiesel manufacturer China Clean Energy has experienced civil engineering setbacks and poor Monsoon season weather delaying construction of its Jiangyin biodiesel plant.
The 30 million gallon a year plant is now expected to begin production in Q2 2009.
The company has another biodiesel plant in China's Fujian Province, which began biodiesel production in 2005... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 5, 2008
Construction has begun on a biofuel refinery in east Tennessee, US, which will use switchgrass, a perennial crop, as a feedstock to produce cellulosic ethanol. The pilot plant is a partnership between DuPont Danisco Cellulosic, the University of Tennessee (UT), and Genera Energy, which aims to produce 250,000 gallons of ethanol by the end of 2009.
DuPont's Danisco... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 5, 2008
Prices of major grains and oilseeds such as corn, wheat, soyabeans, and palm oil that are used to make biofuels are tumbling, indicating green fuels have played virtually no role in the recent global surge in food prices.
Corn and soyabeans have lost more than half of their value, whereas wheat now costs 55% less than at its highpoint in March of this year. Canola fell... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 5, 2008
Kenya expects $500 million (389.4 million Euro's) worth of foreign investments in biofuel crop production over the next two years, a government official has announced. Romano Kiome, permanent secretary in the agriculture ministry, says five multinational firms from the US, Japan, and the UK had applied to be considered in a government land-lease scheme.
Crops such... [Read More]
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