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Australia-based Sterling Plantations has recently sold a biodiesel plant to Malaysian company Gentings Plantations (GP).
The plant, reported to be worth around RM33 million (€7.3 million), is located in Sabah and represents the second facility of its kind to be purchased by GP.
GP has a subsidiary named ACGT, which is a business that focuses on developing genomics-based solutions to…
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Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, a producer of specialty chemicals from natural oils, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership to jointly develop and scale a new metathesis technology to produce biochemicals from vegetable oils.
Under the new partnership, the two companies will jointly develop and scale new…
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A new report by Navigant Research has revealed a sharp rise in the consumption of biofuels across the global road transportation sector.
The research body forecasts worldwide consumption in the sector will grow from more than the 32.4 billion gallons per year recorded in 2013 to more than 51.1 billion by 2022.
‘An increase in ethanol production capacity in the US and Brazil, and biodiesel…
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The Greenwood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF) has claimed to be the first short-rotation forest plantation in the world to earn certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).
The RSB certification covers GTFF's cultivation, management and harvesting of coppiced poplar trees, used as biomass feedstock for the cellulosic ethanol industry or pelletised for direct combustion in biomass…
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The Energy Institute (EI), based in the UK, has been working to improve the test methods for predicting winter performance of diesel fuels, particularly those containing significant amounts of biodiesel.
EI claims one important winter performance parameter is the ‘cold soak’ filter blocking tendency of the fuel.
‘The existing EI test method is IP PM-EA/08,…
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US-headquartered advanced fuels company Aemetis has upgraded its biodiesel and refined glycerin production facility in Kakinada, India.
The 50 million gallon per year capacity facility can now produce high-quality distilled biodiesel. Built in 2008, it uses non-food byproducts from the edible oil industry as feedstock to supply the biofuel, pharmaceutical and industrial markets.
‘The new…
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UK-based Ennovor Group, a global sustainable biofuels company, has signed a rolling tolling contract with what it calls ‘one of Spain’s largest biodiesel refiners’.
The company states it is planning similar agreements with a number of other biodiesel refineries across Europe.
David Frohnsdorff, CEO of Ennovor, says the signed partnership with the un-named Spanish refiner…
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US-based ethanol producer Marathon Petroleum has signed an agreement to purchase a facility in Ohio from Felda Iffco, a Malaysian company.
The plant currently produces several products including biodiesel and glycerin. The capacity of the plant is 4,100 barrels per day. The transaction is expected to close this April but the details are not being disclosed.
‘This acquisition will broaden…
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The European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePure) has warned the European Commission (EC) about surging ethanol imports from Peru since entering a free trade agreement in August 2013.
ePure claim in a statement it is ‘apparent an inadvertent change in the pattern of trade is occurring as a direct consequence of this trade agreement’
‘Peru is taking advantage of the elimination…
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Plans have been approved for the addition of a biofuel storage tank to the Pilot Travel Centre site in California, US.
Barstow Planning Commission passed the proposal to construct the 20,000 gallon, aboveground tank at the large service station.
The tank will store 100% biofuel, to be used in a blend with petroleum-based diesel, with state laws allowing a maximum of 20% biofuel in the blend.
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Renewable energy company Methes Energies Canada is the latest to join the Ontario Biodiesel Association (OBA), joining Great Lakes Biodiesel and Noroxel Energy.
OBA members have agreed to invest over $80 million (€59 million) in plant and equipment to produce biodiesel in the province. Charles Sousa, Ontario minister of finance, committed via the government's budget a consultation…
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Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ‘key Malaysian partners’ to assess local solutions for sustainable biomass production in the country.
The aim is to determine the most suitable feedstocks to ensure that any future jet fuel production in the region is based only on sustainable solutions. The first assessment is expected to be completed by…
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Portugal-based engineering company IncBio has just secured an agreement to supply Bio Renewable Energy Factory (BREF) with a 40,000 million tonne a year capacity biodiesel plant.
The facility will incorporate IncBio’s ultrasonic technology to produce biodiesel from animal fats collected from rendering plants in the Saudi market.
The partnership expects the plant to be complete by the last…
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UK-based fuel supplier Greenergy is confident of re-opening its biodiesel plant in Immingham ‘within months’ after it suffered damage due to flooding late last year.
The company released a company statement in January which read:
‘We continue to make progress towards resuming manufacturing at our biodiesel. All equipment damage has been assessed and replacement equipment has…
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A partnership between Clariant, Haltermann and car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz is to road test biofuels in Germany.
Haltermann takes cellulosic ethanol produced from wheat straw by Clariant and mixes it with conventional fuel components to form a new fuel which, over the next 12 months, will be available to test fleet vehicles at a specially-equipped petrol station on the Mercedes-Benz site in…
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