In Denmark, the country’s largest foundation, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, awarded a grant of about $112 million (EUR 100 million) to DTU Biosustain, to continue its research activities and focusing on three main areas: sustainable chemicals, bio-based products and microbial foods and feed ingredients. The new funding period runs from 1 January 2021 to 31 […]
In United Arab Emirates, RTA’s Public Transport Agency, in collaboration with ENOC Group, embarked on a pilot to power its traditional Abras using Biodiesel5 starting with ENOC supplying biodiesel made from vegetable oils as well as residues of cooking and animal oils to five traditional Abas run by private operators for a three-month pilot period. […]
In Belgium, Biotalys NV, a food and crop protection company, expanded its executive team and established its new U.S. headquarters for Biotalys, Inc., to be located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina . Appointing Diego Angelo to the newly created role of Chief Business Officer (CBO) and Head of the U.S. subsidiary, Biotalys Inc., Biotalys […]
On last week’s DigestConnect webinar, Christopher Bush, Founder of Canada-based Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society shared this fun and informative slide guide complete with poop pictures and more importantly, the reason why cow manure and farm waste makes a fantastic renewable biogas and renewable natural gas. From the feedstock advantages of manure to the economic side and ROI, dig into […]
In Belgium, production and use of renewable ethanol from ePURE members delivered an average of more than 72% greenhouse-gas savings compared to fossil fuels in 2019, according new certified data. This record-high average performance continues an eight-year trend of annual improvements to the climate-change-fighting potential of EU ethanol. Renewable ethanol produced by ePURE members is […]
In Illinois, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Illinois EPA announced the formal redesignation of the Pekin area to attainment of the federal air quality standard for sulfur dioxide. The Pekin area now meets the 2010 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide and all other federal air quality standards set to […]
In Brazil, the Oil & Gas Journal reports that Petrobras will begin production tests at its Presidente Getúlio Vargas (REPAR) refinery in Araucária, Paraná where it is installed a 208,000-b/d renewable diesel unit. The unit uses Petrobras’ proprietary H-Bio process to produce HVO. Even though the company is starting production tests, it can’t yet market […]
In New York state, Platts reports that as the Northeast regions begins to ease up its COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, demand for ethanol has risen in turn helping to support New York Harbor barge ethanol prices to the highest levels seen so far in 2020 at $1.4650/gal. Ethanol production was scaled back by as much as […]
In Texas, ICIS reports that concerns about a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic have forced spot ethanol prices lower after nearly two months of steady increases. Spot ethanol prices hit the floor in mid-April at the height of the pandemic and the associated shelter in place orders that kept people off the roads but […]
In Malaysia, Bernama news agency reports continued low crude oil prices remain a key pressure point for biodiesel blending mandates in both Malaysia and Indonesia who seek to increase energy security and support palm oil producers. Despite lower demand for fuel and biodiesel in particular, the founder and CEO of Sumwin Group said the pandemic […]
