In Malaysia, the New Straits Times reports that Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister confirmed Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand will retaliate against the European Union’s discrimination towards palm oil for biofuels if the trade bloc doesn’t back down from its attacks. He said the discrimination results in “crop apartheid” and could jeopardize the EU-Malaysia free trade […]
Tie-ins for Zymergen, Radiant Genomics, DMC, Capricorn Venture Partners, Syngenta and CHS demonstrate the firepower and scope of digital biology. Today, products made via traditional biological tools tap into easy-to-grow-in-a-lab organisms, and mostly nothin’ else. Sort of like making all the wines in the world from Merlot grapes, because the underlying manufacturing is just too easy […]
Byogy has developed a catalytic platform that converts any source of ethanol, butanol, mixed alcohols, or related olefins, into full replacement, and cost competitive biofuels including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Byogy’s jet fuel is not an additive, but instead, a full replacement standalone fuel, and hence can be used at any blend ratio up […]
In Washington, Platts reports that Energy Information Administration data showed a nearly 60,000 b/d drop in ethanol production during the last week of December, but even so production stayed well above 1 million b/d, leading to further build up of stocks rising 588,000 barrels to 22.619 million barrels. Ethanol production that week was the lowest […]
In Washington, although the USDA says the country’s ethanol plants were running at near full capacity in 2016, there is little or no demand for additional plants due to increased vehicle efficiency that has led to lower gasoline consumption and therefore lower ethanol consumption as a result of the 10% “blend wall.” Instead, it says […]
In Brazil, Platts reports that December saw ethanol imports jump 68% on the month at 84.6 million liters, 59.5 million liters of which entered through the port of Sao Luis in the Northeast, most of which came from the US. The country became a net importer of ethanol following the year’s imports totaled 1.82 billion […]
In Missouri, the National Biodiesel Board Fair Trade Coalition case regarding subsidized biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia continues to move forward to help level the playing field for the domestic biodiesel industry. The coalition filed both antidumping and countervailing duty petitions with the commerce department. Antidumping petitions address whether imports coming into the U.S. […]
In Alabama, farmers are giving carinata a go as a winter rotation crop to see if could add value to their operations while also providing Agrisoma supplies during the off-season after its Midwest farmers have already harvested. In the Midwest, carinata is a summer crop but its cold weather tolerance means it could potentially be […]
In Mexico, rising gas prices in Oaxaca have seen drivers turn towards higher ethanol blends as a way to save money. Three stations opened up offering up to 50% ethanol blends in 2016 and have seen customers grow by 50% since then as a result. One taxi driver said by using E50 he was saving […]
In the UK, a multinational team of researchers, from the UK, Brazil and the US, has pinpointed a gene involved in the stiffening of cell walls whose suppression increased the release of sugars by up to 60%. Their findings are reported Monday in New Phytologist. In the team’s genetically modified plants, a transgene suppresses the […]
