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Nov 2, 2012
Japanese tests could see sago used for biofuels
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Nov 2, 2012
Ethanol plant design and management company ICM has had to lay off 25 employees in Colwich, US in response to what it calls slowing growth in the ethanol industry.
The company now employs 275 people, down from the 671 it had back in early 2008.
In a statement e-mailed to various press outlets, ICM CEO Dave Vander Griend stated the company is focused on retrofitting existing... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2012
Greenergy has announced plans to penetrate the fuel industry in Canada.
From the second quarter of next year, the UK-based supplier of petrol and diesel will begin supplying fossil and biofuels to south western Ontario.
Greenergy's first supply location in Canada will be Vopak's Hamilton terminal. From here it will supply E10 petrol, ethanol and ULSD. A number of terminal... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2012
US-based biofuel and logistics company Eco-Energy has signed a partnership with Copersucar, the largest sugar and ethanol trader in Brazil.
By binding their global supply capacity of 2.6 billion gallons the move creates the largest ethanol trader in the world.
‘With this partnership, we become a truly global company in the biofuel market, expanding our scale of operation... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2012
Vopak has been awarded the first multisite International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for a number of its storage terminals.
The company certified its first terminal in Rotterdam on 13 December 2011. ‘Rotterdam is the biofuels hub of Europe,’ Maurice Houben, Vopak’s sales and marketing manager for global vegoils and biofuels,’... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2012
The Pakistani government is to implement several new plants with the aim of creating a total of 304MW of electricity from city waste.
Many projects are already underway, with an aggregate capacity of 57MW, and the subsequent facilities will create a further 247MW via agricultural, industrial and biogas waste products.
A senior government official stated that agricultural... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2012
Renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris has recorded declining financial results for the third quarter ending September 2012.
Aggregate revenues for the quarter were posted at $19.1 million (€15 million) versus $36.3 million in the same quarter 2011. The company puts the decline in revenue down to the planned transition out of the ethanol and ethanol-blended... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2012
Engineering and technology provider Praj Industries is to move into India as it further explores second generation biofuels.
A 10 million litres a year demonstration commercial plant represents a continuation of Praj’s lignocellulose to ethanol programme as it seeks ways to produce ethanol from non-food based feedstock.
Praj will use the plant to demonstrate technical... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2012
Germany-based bioethanol manufacturer CropEnergies has posted a new record level for its first half of this financial year.
The final figure announced by the company was €319.9 million ($412 million), which was an increase of 16% during March and August compared to 2011. Its operating profit improved by 28% to €37.2 million and its net financial debt has been... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2012
US-based ethanol plant Heron Lake Bioenergy has been working with an energy company to cut its running costs.
Interstate Power and Light, a division of Alliant Energy, has worked with Heron to convert a coal-fired boiler system to natural gas, plus installing a new fan system at the same time.
The plant will see a drop in internal electricity usage of approximately 4.5MKW/h... [Read More]
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Oct 11, 2012
The minister for Energy and Power Development in Zimbabwe, Elton Mangoma, has addressed public doubts over an ethanol project in the village of Chisumbanje.
The project, which has cost $600 million (€465 million) so far, halted in August as politicians could not agree on how best to proceed with it.
Speaking to displaced villagers that paved the way for the project... [Read More]
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Oct 11, 2012
Platts, global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kingsman SA, a privately-held, Switzerland-based provider of price information and analytics for the global sugar and biofuels markets.
The purchase price was not disclosed but is expected to close on 1 November.
‘Kingsman is recognised... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
Carinata seeds form the basis of a new research project into biojet fuel according to Albuquerque, US-based Applied Research Associates (ARA).
ARA and Chevron Lummus are working with Agrisoma Biosciences, the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) and the US Air force Research Laboratory to evaluate and ultimately produce a 100% drop-in ReadiJet fuel.
‘It... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
A strategic alliance between US liquid fuels from non-food biomass producer Ensyn and Brazilian wood pulp provider Fibria Celulose has been signed.
This partnership will include the establishment of an equally-owned joint venture for the production of cellulosic liquid fuels and chemicals in Brazil, as well as a US$20 million (€15.4 million) equity investment in Ensyn... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
Buckeye Partners is to offer crude oil services at its storage terminal in Albany, New York after forming a long-term agreement with an Irving Oil subsidiary.
Under the agreement, Buckeye will provide around 1.8 million barrels of oil storage, off-loading unit trains and throughput when the terminal opens at the beginning of November.
Buckeye president and CEO Clark Smith... [Read More]
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