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May 31, 2012
New biofuels enzyme plant inaugurated by Novozymes
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Jun 1, 2012
The Shell Company of Australia is to provide B20 to its Australian customers after opening a biodiesel facility in Victoria.
The biodiesel facility, which is built at Shell's Newport Terminal in Melbourne, officially opened on 29 May.
Australian Renewable Fuels (ARF) is providing Shell with the biodiesel part of the blend.
The total cost of the project was $5 million (€4... [Read More]
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May 2, 2012
Industrial biotechnology company Aemetis has celebrated its first year of production at its commercial ethanol facility in Keyes, California.
Operations at the facility commenced in late April 2011, with the company now able to boast an uninterrupted year of production, requiring no days down for repairs. Aemetis took possession of 50-employee strong facility under an... [Read More]
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May 2, 2012
FuturaGene has received approval from the Brazilian National Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) to initiate its fourth regulatory field trial for yield enhanced eucalyptus plantations in Brazil. The company specializes in the enhancement of yield and sustainability of woody crops for plantation forestry, biopower and biofuel markets.
The trial is designed to evaluate... [Read More]
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May 2, 2012
The Andersons has completed the purchase of an ethanol facility in Denison, Iowa. The plant is now called The Andersons Denison Ethanol.
Amaizing Energy Denison and Amaizing Energy Holding Company previously owned the ethanol production facility, which neighbours a 2.7 million bushel grain terminal. It is accessible via two Class 1 railroads in Iowa.
The Andersons will... [Read More]
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May 2, 2012
Global biobutanol technology development company Butamax Advanced Biofuels, has announced that a further two ethanol producers have joined their Early Adopters Group (EAG).
The EAG is an association of leading ethanol production companies that are interested in adopting Butamax biobutanol technology for transportation fuel. It was announced in December 2011 with Minnesota-based... [Read More]
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May 2, 2012
DuPont Industrial Biosciences is to contract with Fagen to build one of the world's first commercial cellulosic ethanol biorefineries in Nevada, Iowa. Fagen is a biofuels engineering, procurement and construction contractor that has built more ethanol plants in the United States than any other company.
'Our selection of Fagen as a partner to build our plant in Iowa marks... [Read More]
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May 3, 2012
Energy company Jatenergy has sold the first of its high-yielding jatropha seeds from its specialist oil seed plant breeding program in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The seeds have been sold to companies in Europe, Japan and Mexico for use in trialing the development of crude oil plantations based on the second generation renewable oil crop, jatropha curcas, with an additional... [Read More]
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May 3, 2012
Energy crop company Ceres has announced its improved sweet sorghum hybrids have been successfully processed into renewable diesel by Amyris.
The pilot-scale project evaluated both sugars and biomass from Ceres' sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee.
The sorghum juice was first extracted from the stems of the plants and concentrated... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
Pure Biofuels del Peru management has entered into a partnership with US-based private equity fund manager Pegasus Capital Advisors to acquire the business.
Both companies combined to purchase the equity of Pure Biofuels in a move to provide growth capital for both terminal and operational expansion.
‘Pegasus' extensive expertise in biofuels make it an ideal partner... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
Several US industry groups have written a ‘call to arms’ to accelerate the production of American-made, advanced drop-in biofuels.
The Advanced Biofuels Association, the Algal Biomass Organisation, Airlines for America, the Biotechnology Industry Organisation and the National Farm Bureau Federation sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services... [Read More]
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May 9, 2012
A five-year agreement has been agreed by Monarch Airlines to use a fuel-saving solution provided by Pratt and Whitney (P&W) moving forward.
P&W’s fuel conversion program EcoFlight Solutions will be used across its fleet of 32 aircraft in an aim to help Monarch further improve its environmental performance. The airline has been using P&W’s EcoPower... [Read More]
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May 9, 2012
After the EPA announced that palm oil did not meet the requirements of the US renewable fuels standard earlier this year, new research claims that it could reach the 20% lower emissions required under RFA to qualify.
The EPA had set a carbon emission reduction requirement for palm oil to at least 20% to enable it to be used as raw biofuel in the US. Its research reported... [Read More]
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May 9, 2012
Biomass energy development company Helius Energy is to host five exhibitions as it aims to include local residents in plans for a proposed new biomass power station in Southampton, UK.
Helius want to build the £300 million, 100 MW wood-fired plant at the city’s Western docks and a 12-week consultation will begin on 14 May, including the five exhibitions in... [Read More]
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May 9, 2012
Renewable energy firm Agri cut the ribbon on its new biodiesel plant in Liverpool, UK on 9 May.
The plant was opened in Bootle by transport minister Norman Baker and is the culmination of a six-year project to develop a service which sees it turning used cooking oil from customers and turning it into fuel.
Agri is confident the plant will produce up to 16 million litres... [Read More]
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