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Jun 3, 2010
Mansfield Oil snaps up Western Ethanol
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Jun 4, 2010
US energy company Sunoco has signed an agreement with Indy Racing League to become the official fuel of the Indy Racing League, IZOD Indy Car Series and Firestone Indy Lights/Road to Indy beginning in 2011 and running through 2014.
Sunoco will team with APEX-Brasil and Brazilian organisation UNICA to promote these racing series, which run almost exclusively on ethanol.
Together... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
The world’s largest sugarcane processor Cosan SA Industria & Comercio has experienced a fiscal Q4 net sales increase of 87%.
The Brazilian company saw sales from the fuel distribution unit, which accounted for 55% of total sales, increased 72% to 2.4 billion reais (€1,078,378,157).
Petrol sales doubled to 1.21 billion reais.
Net sales increased to 4.4 billion... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
In Port Kuantan, Malaysia, Australia-based Mission NewEnergy has commissioned its second 75mgy Axens second generation biodiesel transesterification refinery.
During the performance tests, the plant achieved its nameplate capacity and met all guaranteed performance parameters, and Mission is in discussions with its turnkey contractor, KNM Process Systems, to finalise... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
Spanish private equity firm GED Capital has invested €7 million in Spain-headquartered biodiesel producer Bio-Oils.
The investment will enable the company to expand its production capacity to 500,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year.
Bio-Oils is already one of the largest biodiesel producers in Europe, producing 250,000 tonnes a year.
The plant is connected by pipeline... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
Submit your presentation abstract now for the upcoming Biofuels International expo Asia & conference in Kuala Lumpur on 10-11 November.
After last year’s successful event in Singapore the event, organised by Biofuels International magazine, is moving to Malaysia this year with the theme: improving profitability in biofuels production.
The potential for biodiesel... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
Colorado-headquartered ZeaChem has broken ground on its 250,000 gallon a year biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon, US.
The plant will initially use ZeaChem's core technology to produce ethyl acetate, a salable chemical intermediate and precursor to cellulosic ethanol.
ZeaChem's fermentation technology has been built and tested at Hazen Research facility in Golden,... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
In New Mexico the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM) opened what it claims to be the world's first vertically integrated algal biorefinery.
The refinery uses saltwater micro-algae grown in ponds that are high in oil, which is then extracted and used for biodiesel production. The remaining algae material can also be used as a livestock... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
The deal is finally done and dusted. In the US the state Public Utilities Commission has given Hawaiian Electric (HECO) approval to buy renewable biodiesel from a subsidiary of Iowa-based producer Renewable Energy Group.
The fuel, 3 to 7 million gallons in total, processed from used cooking oil and waste animal fat will be used at Hawaiian Electric's new 110MW combustion... [Read More]
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Jun 10, 2010
Privately held company ICM of Colwich, Kansas, US, is to build a second generation biofuels plant after being given the green light by the US Department of Energy.
From August this year the company will begin converting an existing grain-to-ethanol plant into a cellulosic ethanol facility that will use corn fibre, switchgrass and energy sorghum.
The $25 million (€20.7... [Read More]
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May 12, 2010
Ethanol producer Osage Bio Energy, headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia, US, is currently building the state’s first ethanol plant, which is due to be operational by July this year.
Located in Hopewell the Appomattox Bio Energy plant will produce 65 million gallons of ethanol from 30 million bushels of barley each year as well as protein feed when running at full capacity.
John... [Read More]
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May 12, 2010
Following a meeting held on 6 May this year in São Paulo, Brazil, ten organisations have come together to form the Brazilian Alliance for Aviation Biofuels with a vision to promote public and private initiatives that seek to develop and certify sustainable biofuels for aviation.
The ten groups forming the alliance include Algae Biotechnology, Amyris Brazil, the Brazilian... [Read More]
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May 12, 2010
Following poor weather conditions in Brazil last year, which affected the cultivation of the nation’s sugarcane, this year’s CS Brazil harvest is set to reach an all-time high.
The UK’s oldest sugar trader Czarnikow has reported that around 590 million tonnes of sugarcane is set to be crushed this year, increasing production by 17% to 33.5 million tonnes.
However... [Read More]
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May 13, 2010
On May 6 this year Brazil launched the Program for Sustainable Production of Palm Oil with the aim to promote sustainability of the biodiesel feedstock and help prevent deforestation.
A major feature of the programme is a proposed bill that, if passed by the National Congress, would put into effect agro-ecological zoning rules that would restrict the cultivation of palm... [Read More]
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May 13, 2010
Airport shuttles at the San Antonio airport, Texas, US, are to join forces and power the vehicles on biodiesel.
The collaboration between the three rental car companies Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental will see a cut back from 16 to seven fleets, all of which will now run on a 20% biodiesel blend.
Enterprise Holdings owns and operates... [Read More]
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