In Germany, Covestro will present its new Baycusan eco series of biobased polyurethane film formers for the first time in France at the Cosmetagora trade fair in Paris on January 15 and 16. The first product in the series, Baycusan eco E 1000, consists of almost 60 percent renewable raw materials and may be labeled […]
Ecostrat has over 20 years experience sourcing and supplying over 5 million tons of wood fiber and organic feedstock in markets across North America. They offer biomass feedstock supply and analytics to understand and minimize supply chain risk. Jordan Solomon, Managing Director & CEO of Ecostrat Inc. gave this illuminating overview of growing the bio-economy […]
In Germany, BASF is off to a roaring start with its pursuit of ambitious goals and announcements of new innovations. They launched four groundbreaking projects for CO2-reduced future production processes. They advanced five new cottonseed varieties, including dicamba-tolerant varieties for enhanced weed control. They presented novel high-performance insulation in their first carbon concrete composite facade […]
In Finland, the whole of Europe is feverishly looking for new ways to use farm, forest and fishery resources more responsibly and sustainably and to promote the production of the best possible raw materials in order to increase the availability of food, energy and biomaterials. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, the Finnish Forest […]
In California, Aemetis announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary has completed a two-year upgrade of the Kakinada, India biodiesel and glycerin plant. The upgrades to the Kakinada plant included installation of a pre-treatment unit to process lower-cost and waste feedstock into oil; expansion of boiler and other utility capacities; and implementation of environmental systems to […]
In Finland, Biofuel Watch published a report “Neste: The Finnish company preparing to put palm oil in aircraft fuel tanks” on 9 January 2019. The report suggests that Neste is looking to palm oil as a key raw material for the expansion of its aviation fuel production, and that the firm cannot guarantee the sustainability […]
In Malaysia, Reuters reports that as of the end of December, palm oil stocks reached a new high of 3.2 million metric tons—the highest seen since January 2000—following a total of 19.5 million tons produced during 2018. Though palm oil prices have begun to recover from three-year lows to around $531.87 per ton currently, high […]
In Washington, DTN reports that ethanol production seems to be taking market cues and slowing down with last week’s production at 1 million barrels per day compared to an averaged four-week production of 1.025 million bpd vs. 1.049 million bpd averaged four-week figure in 2018. Even though production is at last starting to slow down, […]
In India, the Times of India newspaper reports that the used cooking oil collection and biodiesel production program supported by the RUCO app is expanding to Indore where a biodiesel production facility will be set up. Restaurants will be paid 43 cents per liter for UCO that has a total polar compound higher than 25. […]
In Denmark, a new EU-funded project, SinFonia, will come up with a more sustainable alternative to the current production of fluorinated products by engineering the robust bacterium Pseudomonas putida as a cell factory to make fluorinated polymers. The project aims at producing fluorinated compounds in bacteria with metabolic engineering, circumventing the chemical reactions. Using the […]
