In the UK, Virgin Atlantic has teamed with LanzaTech to create renewable jet fuel that will power planes Shanghai and Delhi to Heathrow within two to three years. LanzaTech is working on producing its fuel in India and China, making those two destinations easy targets for implementation of the ‘green fleet.’ A flight demo with […]
In Malaysia, implementation of the B5 blending policy is expected to go nationwide by 2013, giving oil companies plenty of time to install blending facilities. B5, which was recently launched in Kuala Lampur will be supplied to 247 petrol stations and 890 tonnes or 1.03 million litres of palm biodiesel would be used in a […]
In the UK, Argent Biofuels has secured $11 million from the Royal Bank of Scotland to convert used cooking oil and tallow recovered from wastewater treatment companies into biodiesel. The company currently produces 50 million liters a year of biodiesel at its facility in Newarthill. The funding facility includes the provision of debt and full-money […]
In Ohio, Owens Corning announced that its EcoTouch Insulation is the first fiberglass insulation to be certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a biobased product. The certification is part of a new USDA Biobased labeling initiative to identify products with ingredients made from renewable plant materials.
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In China, Guangxi Academy of Sciences has signed a cooperation agreement with FuturaGene to develop and optimize second generation biofuel production from woody biomass such as eucalyptus with FuturaGene supplying raw material from eucalyptus in the Guangxi region. The academy will be responsible for identifying the best species for further breeding and for optimizing the […]
Codexis announced that Achilles Antonio Clement has been named Director, Latin America. He will head the newly-formed Codexis do Brasil Participacoes Ltda., with responsibility for managing Codexis’ expanding role in Latin America. He will report to David Anton, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer and SVP, Process Development and Manufacturing.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.97 percent to 68.94 as biodiesel recovered. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) rebounded 1.35 percent to $26.36, while Mission New Energy (MNEL) jumped 16.67 percent to $3.01. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) fell 2.21 percent to $16.81. Overall, advances led declines […]
Is bio-coal an economic alternative to traditional coal – or how close? Tim Sklar looks at the numbers, and finds that selecting bio-Coal over thermal coal can be a hard choice without clean energy mandates By Biofuels Digest contributor Tim Sklar Background For some time, thermal coal fired power plants all over the world have […]
In Minnesota, SarTec Corp. has landed a $500,000 grant from DOE to produce biodiesel from camelina and pennycress using the patented Mcgyan biodiesel process at the 3 million gallon per year Ever Cat Fuels facility in Isanti. Farmers across the Midwest will be contracted to produce the feedstock.
