In Maryland, former Director for Operational Energy working for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Chris Tindal, joined the Advanced Biofuels USA board of directors. Tindal’s extensive understanding of military use of biofuels, especially of the Navy’s Great Green Fleet program which he presented at ABLC earlier this year, will come in […]
In Germany, European biocomposite production reached 410,000 tonnes in 2017, according to nova-Institute. The overall annual growth rate of the European biocomposite production is about 3% which is roughly in line with the average growth of the plastics market. But much higher growth rates of up to 30% have been identified in various innovative application […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that vegetable oil prices recently showed a firmer trend and that rising demand and a weaker euro led to a rise in asking prices. Following the weakness in crude oil prices in the first half year of 2017, OPEC’s cap on production and political crises in the Middle East had their […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production averaged 1.054 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.27 million gallons daily, according to government data released and analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. That is down 3,000 b/d from the week before and tied for the seventh-highest rate of output ever recorded. The four-week average for ethanol production increased 0.9% […]
In Germany, the United Nations Climate Conference (COP23) wrapped up on Friday in Bonn, with 19 Member countries of the ‘Biofuture Platform,’ including Brazil, China, Egypt, France, India, Morocco, Mozambique, announcing a formal agreement on the development of targets for biofuels and to construct an action plan to achieve them. The U.S. is no longer […]
In Russia, scientists from Skoltech and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Joint Institute for High Temperatures proposed a new way to convert food waste into biofuel via hydrothermal liquefaction – a thermal depolymerization process used to turn wet biomass into oil. Other researchers use carbohydrates fermentation or fat transesterification for biofuel production but since only […]
It’s hard to believe the Digest was reporting on POET’s grand opening of its Project LIBERTY facility back in 2014, then its reaching of production goals earlier this year in April with yields of about 70 gallons of cellulosic per ton of corn stover, near its goal of 72 gallons, and now here we are […]
In Indonesia, the government is threatening to block milk powder imports from the European Union if the EU moves forward with its recent resolution to restrict imports of palm oil from Indonesia. Indonesia imports milk powder from EU countries, as well as Australia and the United States. “If they continue then I will do the […]
In Nebraska, large ethanol producer Green Plains announced third-quarter profits fell excluding certain items, of $7.4 million, or 18 cents a share (compared to a net profit of $8 million or 20 cents a share a year earlier). The reason given was because of motor fuel’s oversupply problem that Green Plains hope will be remedied […]
In California, cellulosic and biorefining technology company, Edeniq, Inc., added a new VP of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Sarah Caswell, to be based in their Omaha, Nebraska office. She worked on legislative and regulatory issues in Washington, D.C. and Omaha, Nebraska for nearly 20 years. While in DC, she was a legislative aide on Capitol […]
