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Jan 19, 2011
Green Plains signs asset purchase agreement
Green Plains Renewable Energy, the fourth largest ethanol producer in the US, has signed an asset purchase agreement with Otter Tail Ag Enterprises to acquire its 55 million gallon-a-year capacity dry-mill ethanol plant near Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The proposed transaction is anticipated to progress through a court-approved bankruptcy processing initiated by Otter Tail Ag Enterprises. If…
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Dec 20, 2010
Caldic Chemie tank terminal in operation
Caldic Chemie, a producer and storage and handling terminal for methanol and bioethanol, has completed the second phase of its tank park expansion in the Port of Rotterdam. The entire tank park now has a total capacity of 172,500m3. The nine new tanks will all be used for the storage and handling of methanol and bioethanol. All the tanks which were built in the first phase of the expansion have…
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Dec 22, 2010
Novozymes acquires EMD/Merck Crop BioScience
On 20 December 2010 Denmark-based bioinnovation company Novozymes A/S signed a definitive agreement to acquire EMD/Merck Crop BioScience Inc. from Merck KGaA for $275 million (€209.4 million). The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals. The transaction is expected to close between February and May 2011. The total sum is to be paid to Merck KGaA, subject to customary…
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Dec 22, 2010
Court denies NPRA/API legal challenge to RFS2
21 December 2010 saw the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia fully deny the petition by the National Petrochemical Refiners Association and the American Petroleum Institute challenging the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). According to petitioners, the RFS2 final regulation violated the statutory requirements setting separate biomass based diesel volume requirements for…
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Dec 22, 2010
Specialty pipeline market to expand through 2015
The emergence of specialty pipelines that deliver renewable and alternative energy substances from the point of production to points of blending, storage or end use will be a catalyst for growth in the development of current and future alternative fuel projects, according to Specialty Pipelines for Renewable and Alternative Energy Substances by market research publisher SBI Energy. The report…
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Dec 22, 2010
Novasep and Danisco to scale-up industrial betaine production process
Novasep Process, the bioprocess division of Novasep, a supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industry, and Danisco, a Denmark-headquartered company dedicated to food and feed ingredients, enzymes and biobased solutions, are to scale-up a new extraction process for the production of natural betaine. The plant will use vanasse, a byproduct of bioethanol derived from sugar beet.…
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Dec 23, 2010
Noble purchases sugarcane mills
Noble Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered agricultural, industrial and energy products company, has acquired two sugarcane/ethanol mills in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Both the mills, Catanduva and Potirendaba, are fully operational, situated 50km apart from each other and located just over 100km from Noble’s UNP facility. Catanduva has a nominal sugarcane crushing capacity of 4.6…
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Dec 29, 2010
Germany to introduce E10
With a goal to slash CO2 emissions by 80% by the year 2050, Super E10 will be available to German drivers on 1 January 2011. Super E10 is a biofuel with a higher ethanol content and is more environmentally friendly than E5, which is currently blended with conventional transport fuel. According to the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), an estimated 90% of German…
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Dec 29, 2010
Kentucky to establish switchgrass scheme
In the US the state of Kentucky is looking to set up a new programme to study biofuel viability. As part of the initiative Kentucky is to establish around 700 acres of switchgrass fields and is to provide incentives to local farmers who are interested in participating. In addition to assistance, Natural Resources Conservation would also provide funding for those farmers willing to plant the…
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Dec 29, 2010
Heron Lake BioEnergy faces fine
Minnesota, US-based ethanol plant Heron Lake BioEnergy is to pay a $66,000 (€50,260) fine following environmental violations. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) issued the fine on 27 December for infringements that go back to October 2005 when the plant was being built. According to the MPCA, Heron Lake BioEnergy breeched the conditions of its air quality and water quality permits on…
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Dec 29, 2010
Mitsui Engineering and Sime Darby collaborate for bioethanol
Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. is to partner with Sime Darby Plantation Sdn., a unit of Malaysia’s Sime Darby Bhd, for a bioethanol plant in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Together Mitsui and Sime Darby will build and operate the demonstration facility, which will manufacture 1.25 million tonnes a day of bioethanol from empty oil palm fruit branches. Speaking about the project…
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Dec 30, 2010
Copel to build biodiesel plant
In 2011 Brazilian state-owned utility company Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel) is planning to build a pilot-scale biodiesel plant in the state of Parana. The project, known as Parana Biodiesel, will start out by producing 5,000 litres a day of biodiesel. Copel has already made arrangements with the City Hall Jorge d’Oeste that will see it install a facility and recycle the residue…
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Dec 30, 2010
Flooding forces ethanol plant to close
In southern Queensland, Australia, the Dalby Bio-Refinery, Australia’s first grain-to-ethanol production facility, has been forced into temporary closure following severe flooding in the area. According to Kevin Endres, chief executive of Dalby Bio-Refinery, it is not safe for employees to travel to and from the site. ‘The heavy rains and flooding has resulted in disruption to grain…
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Dec 30, 2010
China launches DDGS anti-dumping probe
China’s Ministry of Commerce has launched an anti-dumping probe into distillers dried grains (DDGS) from the US. China is the world’s largest importer of DDGS, a by-product of ethanol production, for use in animal feed. Between January and November this year the nation is reported to have imported over 2.9 million tonnes of DDGS – an increase of 542% compared with the same period in 2009.…
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Dec 30, 2010
China implements tax exemption for biodiesel
The 24 December 2010 saw pure biodiesel derived from waste animal fats or vegetable oils exempt from consumption taxes, following action by China’s Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation. The tax exemption has been introduced retroactively, effective from 1 January 2009. Consumption taxes paid on biodiesel from this date onwards will be refunded. It has been estimated…
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Jan 5, 2011
Pacific Ethanol resumes operations
On the 4 January 2011 marketer and producer of low-carbon renewable fuels Pacific Ethanol resumed production at the 60 million gallon-a-year ethanol plant in Stockton, California. The first corn grind occurred on 9 December last year and the facility is now operating at close to full capacity. ‘We achieved our goal of successfully restarting the Stockton ethanol facility in December 2010,…
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Jan 5, 2011
Virent and HCL CleanTech receive grant
Virent Energy Systems, a US, Wisconsin-based advanced biofuel technology provider, and biofuels and bioproducts firm HCL CleanTech have been awarded a $900,000 (€680,847) grant that will part-fund a project looking to demonstrate cellulosic sugars as feedstocks for drop-in biofuels and bioproducts. The grant was awarded by BIRD Energy, a programme for US – Israel joint renewable energy…
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