In Washington, DTN reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production rose to 990,000 barrels per day, nearly 3% higher on the week and just 6.5% lower than the same period last year. The higher volumes helped push stocks to a 12-week high of 20.866 million barrels, the highest seen since March 20. Demand was […]
In Canada, West Coast Reduction, a family-owned waste recycling company that has been operating for more than 50 years in British Columbia, has turned into the region’s largest supplier of biofuel feedstock. The company produces 250,000 metric tons of liquid feedstock that is now being used by Parkland, a local oil refinery, for co-processing into […]
In Gabon, Energy Mix Report says Olam Palm has chosen a 5ha area near the Libreville port to develop its biodiesel facility. Already the company has a 750-metric ton per day palm oil processing plant in the country. The location of the new facility is ideal for importing equipment as well as for exporting byproducts […]
In India, the Financial Express newspaper reports that Cargill is looking at investing in corn ethanol production in light of the government’s pending policy shift to allow grain feedstocks. The company says it is keen to invest but the policy remains “skewed towards sugar mills” so will wait until the policy framework is more stable […]
In Washington, Agri-Pulse reports there are fears that the Environmental Protection Agency could continue to make delays on RVOs for 2021 until the Biden administration takes over in January. The CEO of the American Coalition for Ethanol says it would be the first time since 2015 that RVOs weren’t known ahead of the calendar year […]
In the UK, scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to daylight in air. The findings of the international research team based at the University of Bristol and Harbin Institute of Technology in China, are published in Nature Communications. The team trapped around 10,000 algal cells in […]
In Canada, Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC) released detailed expert modelling of Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) after implementation of the liquid fuel class CFS regulations in 2022. Four scenarios were defined to profile market demand for and use of biofuels in Canada, and to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and economic growth potential of the CFS […]
This week marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Their story has been oft-told. A band of English Puritans who set out to the Americas in search of religious freedom and to found what John Winthrop would later call “a shining city upon a hill”. Their desperate passage across the […]
Yield10 Biosciences just completed harvesting for their 2020 field test program to evaluate novel yield and compositional traits in Camelina and canola conducted in the United States and Canada, and plan on reporting data in Q4 2020 through early 2021. They also recently collaborated with Rothamsted Research for the advancement of technology that enables the land-based, […]
In Florida, Amyris, Fluid Quip Technologies, Praj Industries and MetGen have taken the lead in early voting in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bio+Engineering for 2021. The Digest released the early-voting totals from Subscriber Voting — which do not yet include Invited International Selector votes. Private Companies on the rise, National Labs disappoint Companies such as Ginkgo […]
