In Washington, U.S. ethanol can now enter the Indonesian market by way of pre-blended fuel, following the recent removal of a ban on pre-blended product entering the country. This change creates a potential market of more than 200 million gallons (71 million bushels in corn equivalent). The market development efforts to accomplish this policy goal […]
Benson Hill, Yield10 and Marrone Bio are in the news this week with advances in their crop technologies aimed at yield improvement and nutritional composition. Yield continues to be the motherlode when it comes to agricultural innovation, you can see the recent waves of agtech investing more or less as a series of novel strategies […]
POET shared this visual slide guide at last week’s DigestConnect webinar, highlighting today’s agricultural landscape, U.S. corn acreage and yield and production countries, showing where America’s corn goes, noting how biofuels are critical for successful agriculture, and more.
In Texas, HollyFrontier Corporation said that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to convert the Cheyenne Refinery to renewable diesel production and to construct a pre-treatment unit located at the Artesia Refinery. Including the previously announced renewable diesel unit at the Artesia Refinery, HollyFrontier is expected to have a combined capacity to produce […]
In Finland, UPM Raflatac launched UPM Raflatac Forest Film PE™ to complement its range of sustainable film labeling solutions. The new PE film label takes UPM Raflatac forward in its quest for a smarter future beyond fossils, decreasing the use of fossil-based virgin raw materials in home and personal care labeling applications. The Forest Film […]
In Texas, Rex American Resources says it is in the process of bringing its One Earth Energy ethanol plant back online after being temporarily idled. NuGen was also idled in response to negative crushing margins brought about by COVID-19 impacts on demand together with falling oil prices but that facility remains offline. The company says […]
In Argentina, El Ciudadano newspaper reports the Santa Fe provincial legislature has proposed the massive migration of the use of diesel to biodiesel in transportation which the local industry says it has the production capacity to supply in its entirety. Supply the provincial capital’s public transport network with biodiesel would require 400,000 metric tons per […]
In Barbados, the Barbados Advocate newspaper reports that the government has decided to collect Sargassum seaweed to produce biofuel, biomaterials and fertilizers as a way to reduce the negative impacts of the seaweed that has plagued the island since 2018. Lab tests on different products from the seaweed have been underway since 2019. The Ministry […]
In the UK, Business Daily News reports that HSBC UK funded South Yorkshire-based Biofuels & Oils, said to be “six figures” but without providing a specific sum, to help the company supply biofuel to a National Health Service hospital. The hospital recently expanded by another 80 beds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and the funding […]
In the Netherlands, University of Leiden researchers have found minute movements in the laccase enzyme, a very efficient catalyst, which makes it interesting for use in biofuel cells. The laccase enzyme is able to efficiently create water from oxygen without creating hydrogen peroxide, an unstable compound that would damage biofuel cells. Because proteins tend to […]
