In Washington, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia. ‘Today’s decision allows U.S. producers of biodiesel to receive relief from the market-distorting effects of foreign producers dumping into the domestic market,’ said Secretary Ross. ‘While the United States […]
Chloroplasts are in the news this week because St. Louis-based TechAccel made a science advancement investment with Plastomics, a biotechnology startup making better crops through chloroplast engineering. Here’s the key Chloroplast engineering is a fast, efficient, and more predictable way to introduce multiple traits into important crops that can also reduce time to market. New […]
You know what they say, “you can make anything you want from lignin except money.” It’s the most challenging issues in biofuel production: upgrading the lignin-containing biorefineryresidues to fungible bioproducts, in an affordable, effective, scalable way. The US Department of Energy is supporting a project to develop a viable bioprocess to convert biorefinerywaste to bioplastics […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that Summit Agricultural Group’s FS Bioenergy announced it will build a second corn-based ethanol plant, investing $308 million to produce 680 million liters per year in the facility based in Sorriso, in northern Mato Grosso. Using 1.8 million metric tons of corn annually, it will also produce half a million tons […]
In Kansas, Green Plains has jumped on the opportunity provided by the new tax reform and created a cooperative to take advantage of tax benefits provided under the new laws—at least in the short term until it undoubtedly gets reformed again. But with farmers forward selling up to a quarter of their crop, the company […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that hydrous ethanol stocks have fallen by a quarter, or 725 million liters, in just two weeks to 2.1 billion liters as of February 1, 5% less than February 1, 2017. Sales during the period were up more than 51% on the year at 1.36 billion liters. Total hydrous ethanol sales […]
In Pennsylvania, Texas Senator Ted Cruz told hundreds of refinery workers at a Philadelphia Energy Systems refinery that speculators were responsible for making the Renewable Fuels Standard unworkable, saying that fixing the RIN system would support American workers and their jobs. The Senator, PES and others allege that RIN compliance requirements under the RFS pushed […]
In the Netherlands, Platts reports that the European biodiesel market is concerned what will happen to prices this summer when imports from Argentina and Indonesia resume, pushing down prices significantly. Prices are expected to come down far enough that it will force some producers to shut down until the market rebalances. Currently, rapeseed-based biodiesel prices […]
In Malawi, ABR Energy is teaming with Press Corp to produce power from ethanol near its Press Cane ethanol plant in Chikwawa in line with the company’s overall strategy to boost feedstock production that will allow its two ethanol plants to produce ethanol 100% capacity. Currently, access to molasses feedstock is restricted by the local […]
In Germany, University of Rostock researchers demonstrates in current research results that off-road engines conforming to exhaust emission category EU Stage IV are suitable for operation with pure biodiesel. The research project at the University of Rostock shows the suitability of B100 at an EU Stage IV engine for industry and agriculture. Special attention was […]
