Subway recently launched the Beyond Meatball Marinara sub in Canada, Dunkin’ Donuts with Beyond Sausage, Del Taco with Beyond Taco and Beyond Burrito, and Beyond Burger, the world’s first plant-based burger that looks, cooks, and satisfies like beef, without GMOs, soy, or gluten, can be found almost anywhere now. Overall the company hopes that “By […]
In California, Brightmark, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, announced that it has signed a manure supply agreement with two South Dakota dairy companies, Boadwine Farms, Inc. and Mooody County Dairy Limited Partnership, to capture methane produced by nearly 12,000 dairy cows and heifers and convert it into renewable natural gas. The project […]
In Italy, Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has announced that all the plants at Crescentino (Vercelli, Piedmont) will be up and running by the first half of 2020. The plant, acquired in November 2018, is designed for industrial-scale production of bioethanol and has been upgraded with an investment of more than 15 million euro. The biomass […]
In St. Lucia, following the success of its first Biodiesel Conversion Centre in Saint Lucia, Sandals Resorts International is exploring ways to expand the project throughout its resorts across the region. For the last five years, the company’s Dive Centre at Pointe Seraphine has been the site of its first biodiesel plant, successfully converting used […]
In North Dakota, after more than three years, $6 million of investment and thousands of hours of management time, North Dakota Soybean Processors announced that it is abandoning its efforts to build a large-scale soybean crushing facility at the Spiritwood Energy Park in Spiritwood, North Dakota. “We made every effort to build the first farmer-owned […]
In Vietnam, Malaysia’s Star newspaper reports that the former chairman of PetroVietnam along with nine alleged accomplices are being charged over negligence surrounding the design, procurement and partial implementation of the ethanol project in Phú Thọ. The Ministry of Public Security says the contractors hired to undertake the project were not qualified and the project […]
In Nigeria, Leadership magazine reports that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. has been work on developing the cassava- and sugarcane-based ethanol plant in Kogi State, starting with soil tests at the proposed site in the town of Alape. About 20,000 hectares of sugarcane will supply the facility in addition to 15,000 hectares of cassava with […]
In the UK, a project using waste from pea processing to clean water is one of seven projects which have just received funding from the THYME project to boost the region’s bioeconomy. These projects join 13 THYME projects already funded in 2019, bringing the total research funded by the project to almost £1 million (nearly […]
In Canada, Minister Mélanie Joly announced 600 new jobs for Bioindustrial Innovation Canada. FedDev Ontario’s C$15 million (about $11.3 million) financial contribution will promote new sustainable innovations and bring business support network to Eastern Ontario. Through this project, 150 businesses and organizations will be assisted and 700 jobs will be created and maintained in southern Ontario. […]
There are horse whisperers and there are fuel price whisperers. The latter, they beguile us with their charts and tables and reports and white papers and studies, generally aimed at making fuel prices seem awfully complex, when they’re actually not too tough to figure. These days some fuel price whisperers I know have taken aim […]
