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Sep 20, 2011
NEF builds bioproducts plant
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Sep 21, 2011
Refining and marketing company Neste Oil has completed its fourth renewable diesel plant. Located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the plant is the largest of its kind in Europe.
The plant has an annual production capacity of 800,000 tonnes and this will be ramped up on a phased basis.
The plant brings Neste Oil's overall renewable diesel capacity to 2 million tonnes each... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2011
In Brazil, Cargill, a global trader of sugar and ethanol, and Grupo USJ, a company dedicated to the sugarcane industry, have formed a 50/50 joint venture, SJC Bioenergia.
The new JV brings together two of Grupo USJ's sugarcane mills, both located in the state of Goiás: its Quirinópolis-based São Francisco mill and the Cachoeira Dourada mill, which... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2011
Four months after closing, Ensus' bioethanol plant remains closed due to market conditions.
Ensus closed its £250 million (€286 million) facility in May but insisted this was a temporary move. However, operations there remain halted and Ensus is unsure when production will be resumed. However it hopes to start refining by the end of this year.
Nevertheless,... [Read More]
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Sep 22, 2011
PTTMCC Biochem, a joint venture between PTT and Mitsubishi Chemical, is developing a polybutylene succinate (PBS) plant in Thailand.
The joint venture has selected BioAmber, a renewable chemistry company, to build the plant and the company is scheduled the break ground on it in 2012.
The plant will be built close to PTTMCC's PBS plant at the Map Ta Phut site in Rayong,... [Read More]
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Sep 23, 2011
Technical Trade, a company based in Romania, is developing a biofuel plant in the village of Remetea.
The company will break ground on the €6.5 million ethanol plant early next year, with startup scheduled in 2013.
It has not yet been disclosed how much ethanol the plant will produce, but it will be able to handle around 7,000 hectares of local crops such as potatoes,... [Read More]
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Sep 23, 2011
Trading and services company Mitsui has signed an agreement with Simon Storage to store bioethanol at Simon’s Immingham West Terminal on the east coast of England.
The bioethanol will be received and delivered by sea and road; and the product will also be offered to companies currently storing products in the terminal.
Tank modifications were made for the new storage... [Read More]
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Sep 26, 2011
The construction of ethanol producer Poet's commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa, US, will remain on track after it received final approval for a $105 million (€78 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DoE).
The plant, Project Liberty, will be able to produce 25 million gallons a year of cellulosic ethanol from biomass... [Read More]
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Sep 26, 2011
Waste-to-ethanol company Fulcrum BioEnergy has filed for an IPO that could raise enough money to fund the construction of an ethanol plant that has been under development since 2008.
The IPO could raise up to $115 million (€85.6 million) and this, coupled with a possible US Department if Energy loan guarantee, would see Fulcrum break ground on its $120 million facility,... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2011
Aurora Algae, a US and Australia-based company dedicated to algae development, has received $22 million (€15.7 million) in its latest funding round.
Current investor Oak Investment Partners led the round, along with other existing investors and an unnamed foreign strategic investor. To date, Aurora Algae has raised $72 million.
These latest funds will help finance... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2011
Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE), a Utah, US-based biodiesel producer, has begun operations at its new biodiesel production facility in Plymouth, after 12 months of development and construction.
The plant has the capacity to manufacture 10 million gallons a year of biodiesel from feedstocks such as yellow grease, brown grease and tallow. WRE will source these feedstocks... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2011
An ethanol plant auctioned on 24 August in the US failed to sell for more than the starting bid due to its high selling price and complications associated with it.
Primary lender Cape Fear Farm Credit bid $34.5 million (€24.5 million) for the Raeford, North Carolina-based Clean Burn Fuels, anticipating a higher bidder would end up acquiring it. However this was not... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2011
Both the ethanol and biodiesel global markets continued to grow in 2010 with biofuels production up 17%, compared to a 10% rise in 2009. This is according to a report on 2010 biofuel production by US research company Worldwatch Institute.
Ethanol remains the most widely produced biofuel; of the 105 billion litres produced in 2010, 86 billion litres was made up of ethanol.
In... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2011
At Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol and KLM have started fuelling some of their ground transport vehicles on 100% biodiesel (B100).
The move comes after both companies invested heavily in the introduction of biofuel-powered vehicles at the airport, as electrically powered vehicles are currently limited to certain vehicle types.
SkyNRG of the Netherlands is supplying the biodiesel... [Read More]
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Sep 8, 2011
German airline Lufthansa has acquired jatropha oil from Jatenergy for use as bio-jet fuel in its trial of renewable jet fuel, which will be piloted in regular flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The crude jatropha oil was supplied from Jatenergy's operations in Central Java, Indonesia, where it has partnered with PT Waterland International.
Lufthansa purchased 200 tonnes... [Read More]
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