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Sep 20, 2010
TMO and Fiberight sign 20-year contract
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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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Aug 26, 2010
On 25 August oil company Shell and Cosan S.A., one of the world’s largest ethanol companies based in Brazil, signed binding agreements to form a $12 billion (€9.44 billion) joint venture, which will see the production and commercialisation of ethanol from sugarcane.
Should the partnership be formed it will become the world’s third largest producer of ethanol with... [Read More]
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Aug 26, 2010
China has become the world’s third largest manufacturer of ethanol.
The increase comes after the Chinese government ramped up the production of ethanol from non-grain feedstocks including straws, cassava and bagasse.
The issue of food security led the government to curb the cultivation of first generation crops for use in biofuel production.
Most recently the nation... [Read More]
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Sep 1, 2010
In Wisconsin, US, Sun Power Biodiesel is expected to receive over $1 million (€788,161) in grants.
The seven-year low-interest loan will be put towards upgrading the firm’s equipment and infrastructure at its Cumberland-based 3 million gallon-a-year biodiesel plant.
The project will create around 31 jobs.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is reported... [Read More]
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Sep 1, 2010
The opening ceremony of the world’s first plant for the production of the renewable fuel BioDME will take place on 9 September 2010 in Piteå, Sweden.
Located at the Smurfit Kappa pulp and paper container board mill, the plant utilises black liquor, a by-product of the pulping process, to produce the BioDME.
The gasification technology comes from Chemrec AB, while... [Read More]
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Sep 1, 2010
In Brazil a recently held biomass, wind and hydroelectric auction is expected to encourage $5.52 billion (€4.32 billion) in investments in alternative energies in the region.
The auction came as the Brazilian government aims to further diversify its clean energy matrix. It contracted power from biomass plants, 89 wind farms and small hydroelectric plants and will add... [Read More]
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