In Germany, UFOP reports that the issue of secure market supply is currently a topic of direct concern to consumers and is proof that international agricultural trade reaches its limit in crisis situations. The Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) demands that, when implementing the “Farm-to-Fork” strategy as part of the […]
In Washington, D.C., launched by Earth Day Network, the Wilson Center and the U.S. Department of State’s Eco-Capitals Forum, the Earth Challenge 2020 project creates a global expansion of open source citizen science data and opportunities for civic engagement. Using mobile technology and open citizen science data, Earth Challenge 2020 empowers people globally to monitor […]
In Germany, BASF is significantly expanding the production of disinfectant at its Ludwigshafen site and has now started production of hand sanitizer based on bioethanol, in addition to the isopropanol-based hand sanitizer manufactured to date. With the additional quantities of up to 100,000 liters of hand sanitizer per week, the company will support the new […]
In France, Amoeba, a pioneer of amoeba- based technologies for the biocide and plant protection markets signed an evaluation and testing agreement with Syngenta, one of the world’s leaders in agriculture. In response to the growing demand for effective and sustainable solutions against fungal diseases, Syngenta will test different concepts based on Amoeba’s Willaertia magna […]
In Texas, INFRA Technology Group and PETRONAS Research entered a research and development collaboration agreement for the development of a specialist Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst. The project will be phased over several years to identify and develop a catalyst with optimum yield based on the required project parameters. The collaborative team, comprising members from INFRA’s R&D […]
In Germany, Bavarian ship management company MINSHIP and its subsidiary MINMARINE said a bulk carrier in their fleet of managed vessels, M/V Trudy, has successfully bunkered GoodFuel’s biofuel at the Port of Rotterdam. The biofuel bunkered by the 2009-built, 30,790-dwt bulk carrier on April 17 was GoodFuels’ sustainable Bio-fuel Oil MR1-100: which is a second […]
Haldor Topsoe had a great 2019. A leader in high-performance catalysts and proprietary technologies for the chemical and refining industries, their R&D spend is 8% of revenue and have developed more than 150 different catalysts. From project development to engineering and licensing of tech to catalysts, Topsoe has commited to conducting their business as economically, […]
Part 1 Slide Guide looked at the GTI study’s resource analysis, site layout catalysts requirements, but for today’s Part 2, we are focusing on the money and the charts. Dive into the details on project development costs and spend profile, CAPEX and OPEX, economic, operational and pricing assumptions used for the model, LCA inputs for […]
While the world may be at a standstill, there are still many projects going on and moving forward. But where are these projects? Who’s involved? How far along are they? What are they working on? From VTT BioFlex in Finland working on fuels oils and plastics from biomass and waste plastics, to several renewable natural […]
California needs facilities that can dramatically reduce GHG emissions and black carbon production by using wood waste, according to GTI. The closing of biomass power plants is leading to open burning of the excess of these wastes. Dive into the details and graphics of the resource analysis, site and equipment layout, the chemicals and catalysts […]
