Sorghum sights are set high with EPA approval and recent genetic improvements The next time they re-make the Wizard of Oz movie, you might just see sorghum growing in the fields along the yellow brick road, thanks to sorghum’s big win last week when the U.S. EPA opened up pathways for sorghum oil to become […]
In Oregon, Red Rock Biofuels broke ground on the $320 million renewable fuels facility last week, a step forward towards taking woody biomass waste and converting it to an estimated 15 million gallons of jet fuel. After seven years in progress, the groundbreaking provided a monumental day for Red Rock and those who have contracts […]
In Maine, Fiberight’s facility in Hampden has 72,000 square feet of concrete flooring laid down in the 144,000 square foot space which is anticipated to be installed next month. Recycling equipment is set to arrive soon as well and Fiberight expects the facility to begin processing waste in October, not September as Fiberight CEO Craig […]
In Indonesia, crude palm oil and its derivative products exports dropped for the first half of 2018 due to lower demand due to import tariffs. The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association Executive Director, Mukti Sardjono, told Xinhuanet that their data showed that the cumulative exports of the commodity by June edged off about 2 percent […]
In Washington, D.C., Scott Richman is joining the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) in early August as its chief economist and will lead the development and execution of a wide range of research and analysis initiatives to support the RFA’s mission and objectives. Most recently, Richman served as senior vice president and co-head of North America […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the ongoing heatwave in the EU-28 is anticipated to lead to a significantly smaller rapeseed harvest than previously expected and prices have already risen considerably and are likely to increase further. German ex-farm prices of rapeseed from the 2018 crop have surged substantially over the past few weeks. Since the […]
In New York, Mark Zenuk has been appointed to Bunge Limited’s Board of Directors. Zenuk has served as Managing Partner of Tillridge Global Agribusiness Partners, an agribusiness private equity firm, since 2016. Prior to Tillridge, he was a Managing Director at NGP Energy Capital Management (“NGP”), where he led NGP’s agribusiness investment platform from 2010 […]
In India, a new study conducted by researchers at Dayalbagh Educational Institute looked at the different pretreatment methods for lignocellulosic wastes for biofuels, including physical, chemical, physico-chemical, biological and combined pretreatments. It has been shown that combined pretreatments are more effective as compared to single pretreatment and there is an extensive scope of combinations which […]
In India, the government held its 28th Goods and Services Tax Council meeting on Friday and as a result of the meeting, lowered taxes on various products across several sectors including a tax reduction on biofuel pellets from 18 percent to 5 percent. Fuel-cell vehicles GST was also lowered from 28 percent to 12 percent. […]
EnerSysNet Canada Inc.’s mission is to develop modular systems that enable the forest residuals to hydrocarbon economy. Oxygen-free, liquid hydrocarbons would be produced from sustainably managed timber reserves by a distributed network of small, self-contained biorefineries that literally take the factory to the forest. The companies “ablative” conversion technology transforms woody biomass from harvest and mill […]
