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Sep 16, 2010
Unique $200m biofuels project set to begin
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Sep 16, 2010
An idle biodiesel plant in Lilbourn, Missouri, US, has now reopened after three years under the new name ME Bio Energy.
The $7 million (€5.36 million) facility was acquired in May earlier this year before it began producing at its full capacity of 5.2 million gallons a year in July. Plant manager Jerry McDowell said that the plant manufacturers approximately 14,000... [Read More]
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Sep 16, 2010
State-owned Russian Technologies is set to build a biobutanol production facility in Russia, which, when finished, will be the first of its kind in the nation.
Construction in the Irkutsk region in Siberia will commence in March 2011 before it starts manufacturing the biofuel from wood chips and other timber by-products.
‘As far as timber, we have enough of it to... [Read More]
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Sep 16, 2010
Delegates registering for the upcoming Bioenergy International Canada expo & conference can start networking straight away! Using pre-event software delegates can set-up meetings and contact other visitors, delegates, speakers and exhibitors, maximising networking opportunities at this event.
Biofuels International Canada expo & conference is now only days away... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2010
Bioethanol producer CropEnergies has increased its revenues in the first half of the current 2010/11 financial year (1 March – 31 August 2010) by 16.5% to €215 million. This is a significant increase from the previous year’s €184 million. The operating result reached €17 million.
For the full financial year 2010/11, CropEnergies has increased its outlook for... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2010
On 20 September 2010 TMO Renewables, a developer of a new process for converting biomass into ethanol for transportation fuel, entered into a 20-year exclusive contract with clean tech company Fiberight.
The contract could be worth in excess of $25 million (€19.09 million) a year and will see Fiberight design and build a number of US-based bioethanol refineries.
The... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2010
Leading global publication Biofuels International magazine has just boosted its market position by becoming the only one in the biofuels sector to be independently audited.
The magazine has just gone through an independent audit of its circulation with BPA, the global industry resource for verified audience data and media knowledge.
This proves that 10 times a year... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is now less than a week away – don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn from and network with biofuels experts from throughout Canada and the US.
Starting on Tuesday the 28th September at the Coast Plaza Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, the day conference and exhibition features speakers including Bruce McEwen, Oil, gas and... [Read More]
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Sep 23, 2010
Biodiesel producer Renewable Energy Group (REG) is to acquire biodiesel assets from Ares Corporation.
Burlingame, California-based Ares is an engineering, risk management, software/IT and project management firm, which will invest an additional $8 million (€5.99 million) into REG in an all common stock transaction.
Ares previously owned the 15 million gallon-a-year... [Read More]
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Sep 23, 2010
Thailand-based Bangchak Petroleum is planning to invest approximately Bt2 billion (€48.7 million) in the acquisition of at least two ethanol plants by 2011.
The company currently sells 95-octane petrol but plans to stop doing so by 2012 as ethanol demand for transportation fuel is expected to increase from 200,000 barrels per day in 2009 to 400,000 barrels per day.... [Read More]
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Sep 23, 2010
By 2019 it is predicted that the production of ethanol for vehicle fuel will reach 64 billion litres, over double what is currently produced today.
According to energy minister Marcio Zimmerman: ‘Brazil produces 26 billion litres today and will reach 64 billion litres in 2019. With that we will even have a surplus to export.’
To date 47% of the nation’s energy... [Read More]
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Sep 29, 2010
Renewable fuels company BlueFire Renewables has signed a 15-year supply contract with Cooper Marine and Timberlands (CMT) to provide feedstock for BlueFire’s planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, Mississippi, US.
The cellulosic ethanol plant will convert materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips and wood waste in approximately 7 million gallons of... [Read More]
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Sep 29, 2010
As energy firm Jatoil moves into the second stage of its joint venture PT Jatoil Waterland, its initial jatropha land holdings in central Java, Indonesia, is set to increase by 42.375%.
In addition to the jatropha plantations held by the joint venture, Jatoil will plant a further 500 hectares next to the existing plots.
Throughout the next 12 months PT Jatoil Waterland... [Read More]
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Aug 25, 2010
The Brazil-based agribusiness company Granol is set to invest BRL10 million (€4.5 million) to boost the production capacity of biofuel at its biodiesel plant located in the state of Goias.
The facility currently produces 613m3 of biodiesel a day from soya oil, other vegetable oils and animal fat but Granol is looking to ramp up production to 1,033m3 a day.
In addition... [Read More]
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Aug 25, 2010
In the city of Dunafoldvar, Hungary, energy utility Pannon Ethanol has started building its new bioethanol power plant.
Pannon Ethanol has invested €120 million in the project, which will produce 240 million litres of bioethanol a year from 575,000 tonnes of maize when up and running in the fourth quarter of next year.
250 construction jobs will be created, in addition... [Read More]
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