Apr 4, 2016
Biofuels production creates land competition for food, says US academic
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Apr 4, 2016
Renewable Energy Group (REG), a US-based biofuels producer, is expanding its Iowa-based laboratory to boost renewable chemical related biotechnology research, development and commercialisation.
The lab expansion will include the installation of fermentation equipment and significant analytical capabilities, REG said in a statement.
Upon completion, full-time positions... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2016
Cellulosic Sugar Producers Cooperative, an Ontario, Canada-based farmer's cooperative, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Comet Biorefining to collaborate on the development of a sustainable agricultural biomass supply chain in southwestern Ontario.
Comet Biorefining recently announced Sarnia, Ontario, as the location of its commercial-scale biomass-derived... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2016
Deinove, a biotech company developing innovative processes for producing biofuels and bio-based chemicals by using Deinococcus bacteria, and Arbiom, a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of a biorefinery process from non-food biomass, entered into a collaboration contract.
Both companies aim to provide a complete value proposition integrating different links... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2016
US biofuels producer Renewable Energy Group has reported a fourth-quarter loss of $95.6 million (€87m), after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
Net income was $69.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2014, the company reported.
Nevertheless, the biodiesel producer posted revenue of $387.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2015.
For the year, the... [Read More]
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Mar 8, 2016
The world's first research facility to grow both food and fuel just opened in the United Arab Emirates.
Located on a two-hectare site in Abu Dhabi, the desert facility uses coastal seawater irrigation to raise fish and shrimp for food, while growing salt-tolerant plants that can be harvested to create biofuel.
The facility, operated by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology,... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2016
Algal biofuel production is not living up to expectations, hindered by high key resource demand, technical difficulties, and high costs, a new study finds.
According to a review by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), despite high expectations and extensive research and investment, technological options are still in developing stages and key resources for... [Read More]
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Feb 25, 2016
Spanish renewable energy business Abengoa has announced that its US bioenergy unit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The company made the announcement on Wednesday (24 February). According to news agency Reuters, the firm's US bioenergy unit has current liabilities worth $10bn.
The filings do not include Abengoa's corn ethanol plants in Mount Vernon, Indiana, and Madison,... [Read More]
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Feb 25, 2016
Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that an enzyme can be tweaked to reduce lignin in plants.
According to Berkeley Lab, its technique could help lower the cost of converting biomass into carbon-neutral fuels to power cars and other sustainably developed bio-products.
Lignin... [Read More]
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Feb 24, 2016
Africa has become the new frontier for innovative non-food crop based biofuels' projects, according to a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
The report, 'Second-Generation Biofuel Markets: State of Play, Trade and Developing Country Perspectives', says that these initiatives are mainly taking place in Eastern and Southern Africa... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2016
Researchers have revealed through a new study that fungi from the gut of herbivores like goats, horses and sheep could be used to make biofuel.
The researchers report in the journal Science that these anaerobic gut fungi perform as well as the best fungi engineered by industry in their ability to convert plant material into sugars that are easily transformed into fuel... [Read More]
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Feb 15, 2016
The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) is partnering with Lianhenghui Investment Co. to construct a five-acre algae production facility in Zhengzhou, China.
The facility will feature the centre’s novel photobioreactor technology for growing algae, which will be used for the production of fuels, nutraceuticals, and bioplastics.
Lianhenggui... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2016
The Australia-based Queensland Government is to investigate the establishment of a biofutures industry development fund, which would look to financially assist first mover investment in the biofuels industry.
According to local news website Daily Mercury, Premier Annastacia Palaszcuk made the announcement following the second meeting of her Biofutures Cabinet Committee.
"I've... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2016
Lincoln Terminal Co., a US-based oil and products and biofuels marketing company, has acquired a new terminal, called Eco, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to reports on news website TankTerminals.com, Lincoln's Charlotte terminal will have a total capacity of 130,000 bbl, and serves gasoline, ethanol and biodiesel. The terminal can also cater for different products... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2016
Neste, a Finland-based renewable diesel producer, reported better than expected fourth-quarter profits and dividend thanks to high European refining margins and favourable foreign exchange rates.
Neste, which has two conventional refineries in Finland and renewable diesel refineries in Singapore and Rotterdam, said its core operating profit in the quarter rose 39% from... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2016
China’s state-owned ChemChina will acquire the Swiss agri business Syngenta in a long-rumoured and controversial $43 billion (€39.4bn) deal.
Secrecy has surrounded the deal since November 2015, when Syngenta – the producer of bioengineered Enogen corn for the ethanol industry – received a $47 billion takeover offer from the US agricultural juggernaut... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2016
Caltech Ventures, a Ghana-based cassava cropping and processing company, will start the production of ethanol from cassava at a distillery in Hodzo in the Ho municipality this March, according to local press reports.
This would be the first industrial-scale ethanol production in the West African country which imports around 60m litres of ethanol per year.
Kasapreko Company... [Read More]
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