In Switzerland, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials has a new member – BASF, a multinational chemicals company. BASF brings a wealth of experience in the biochemicals sector to RSB’s membership, and they anticipate relevant impact from BASF’s input on their platform. BASF wants to contribute to a thriving world that turns residues and wastes into […]
In Washington, DC, ethanol production averaged 1.049 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.06 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. That is up 24,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production decreased to 1.044 million b/d for an annualized rate of 16.00 billion gallons. Stocks […]
In Germany, German exports of rapeseed oil in the first half year 2017/18 fell short of the previous year’s level, according to UFOP. Both EU member states and third countries purchased considerably less rapeseed oil than a year earlier. According to information published by the German Federal Statistical Office, German exports of rapeseed oil declined […]
In New Jersey, Princeton University researchers used light to control genetically modified yeast and increase its output of commercially valuable chemicals. The team used light to enhance the production of biofuels, drugs and commercial chemicals in bioreactors, which contain microorganisms such as yeast that have been metabolically engineered to make biological products. The team uses […]
In China, the trade war has begun as China responded on Friday to Trump’s latest trade tariffs with a proposed list of U.S. products they plan on targeting as well. The list includes 128 U.S. products, including ethanol, wine, fresh fruit, dried fruit and nuts, steel pipes and ginseng, according to a statement from China’s […]
High drama at the White House in recent days and weeks — a series of meetings as certain merchant oil refiners seek caps on US ethanol mandates and RIN prices, while ethanol producers and their corn growing suppliers seek to protect the foundational mandate paseed by Congress in 2007 that set the country on a […]
Sweetwater Energy has developed a unique and patented technology for producing low-cost sugars and clean lignin fiber from multiple non-food plant materials to help meet the modern world’s increasing demand for biochemicals, bioplastics and biofuels. Sweetwater CEO Arunas Chesonis gave this illuminating presentation on the company’s promise and progress at ABLC 2018 in Washington DC […]
In China, Reuters reports that ethanol production could increase by half a million metric tons this year as part of the country’s ramp up to an E10 blending mandate in 2020 with an eye on 5 million tons of production within the next five years. Higher margins are helping to boost interest in ethanol production […]
In India, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas wants more effort placed to push production and procurement of molasses-based ethanol from sugar mills to supply the E10 blending mandate and not just focus on longer-term goals of second generation ethanol. It has called on the petroleum ministry to do everything in its […]
In Washington, the Department of Justice has opened a 10-day public comment period regarding the proposed settlement agreement for Philadelphia Energy Solutions’ RIN debt. On March 12, the DOJ lodged a proposed Consent Decree and Environmental Settlement Agreement with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in In PES HOLDINGS LLC., et […]
