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Oct 2, 2014
Agrisoma in Carinata production move
Biodiesel News
Oct 3, 2014
EU authorities has given the go ahead for Airbus' new long-haul A350 plane to start flying.
Deliveries of the next-generation aircraft will be sent to its first client Qatar Airways shortly.
The new A350 plane has been manufactured to help the European airline catch up with Boeing's efforts to create long-haul, fuel-efficient planes.
Using light composite materials, the... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 3, 2014
Cellulosic ethanol production could help create up to 9 million cellulosic D3 renewable identification numbers (RINs) in 2014, if active plants reach full capacity, suggests Genscape.
Data and market specialist Genscape has released its white paper, Outlook for 2014 cellulosic production and D3 RINs, which looks at the current state of biofuels. In the paper, the company... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Oct 7, 2014
Argentina's cooperatives association (Aca-Bio) has started work on a $130 million ethanol plant outside the city of Villa María.
The plant will process 380,000 tonnes per year of corn, which will produce 125,000 cubic metres per year of biofuel.
Excess steam will power a turbine that will then be used to power the plant.
Operations will start in February. ... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 7, 2014
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will give a $91 million (€72 million) loan guarantee to help Cool Planet Energy Systems build a new biofuel plant in Louisiana.
The facility will be built at the Port of Alexandria, Louisiana, and will produce renewable fuels and biochar, a bioenergy by-product. Pine chips will be converted into high octane petrol and aromatic... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 9, 2014
Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, a sustainable fuels company, will receive a loan from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the construction of waste-to-jet fuel facility.
The USDA is to award a $105 million (€81.5 million) Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee to Fulcrum, which the company will use to build a biorefinery in Nevada, US. The new facility, which... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 9, 2014
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is investing €32 million in a new demonstration plant, to be built in Louisiana, US, following its recent acquisition of biotechnology association Virdia.
The plant will be used to validate, on an industrial scale, Virdia's technology. This newly acquired extraction and separation process enables cellulosic biomass, such... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 11, 2014
Flint Hills Resources, a refining, chemicals and grain processing company, has signed an agreement with Southwest Georgia Ethanol to acquire its ethanol plant in Camilla in the US state of Georgia.
The plant opened in 2008 and is able to produce 100 million gallons a year of ethanol. It also produces more than 275,000 tonnes of dried distillers grains and approximately... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 11, 2014
Eco-Energy, a US-based biofuel supply chain company, has announced the development of an ethanol unloading, storage, and outbound truck loading facility in Augusta, Georgia. This facility will serve the Augusta and Savannah markets in Georgia.
The ethanol unit train facility will be equipped to receive up to 80 tank cars via Norfolk Southern Railway for distribution by... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 11, 2014
Corn Oil One has begun constructing its new distillers corn oil facility, based in Iowa, US. The new plant, expected online early next year, will be one of the first to purify constituents out of distillers corn oil via a patent-pending process.
The plant is co-located with Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy's (SIRE) ethanol plant and, in addition to removing high-value... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 11, 2014
Asset advisory and auction company Heritage Global Partners (HGP) is to hold a telephonic auction of almost 10% economic interest in North Star Biofuels and related intellectual property owned by R Power Biofuels and Sauber, including a patent and certain trade secrets.
The winning bidder will acquire a 9.871% economic interest in a Watsonville, California-based company... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 11, 2014
Brazilian senators have approved a bill raising the mandatory amount of ethanol in petrol sold at the country's service stations as demand for the biofuel declines, reports Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
The blend percentage will be raised from 25% to 27.5%, according to the Senate, though the bill is yet to be ratified by President Dilma Rousseff.
Government policies limiting... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 12, 2014
In India, Numaligarh Refinery (NRL), a Government of India Enterprise, and Finnish biorefinery technology corporation Chempolis have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Under the MoU, the two companies have agreed to jointly study and build a biorefinery in Assam, northeastern India, which will produce cellulosic ethanol from locally sourced biomass – namely... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 12, 2014
SGB, an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, has successfully created a hybrid jatropha which has both high yield and rapid time to maturity.
In conjunction with these results, the company has closed an $11 million (€8.5 million) Series C financing to drive commercial rollout.
With its latest generation of jatropha hybrids, SGB has reduced the time to maturity... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2014
Energy Management Solutions (EMS), a subsidiary of ICM, has signed two new plant management agreements with Red River Energy, Rosholt, South Dakota and Midwest Renewable Energy, Sutherland, Nebraska.
The Red River Energy ethanol plant, which has a current operating capacity of 25 million gallons per year, will shortly restart full production after an 18-month idle period.
The... [Read More]
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