In first day voting in round three of Transformative Technologies 2011, tournament Cinderella OriginOil continued its remarkable run, opening up a 59-41 lead over Codexis. The 11th seeded company blew past Genencor and Sapphire Energy to date in the tough Western Regional, and may well be en route to a date with destiny in the […]
In Indiana, Imperial Petroleum has signed a two-year feedstock supply agreement with Green Grease Solutions of New Jersey for Imperial Petroleum’s biodiesel facility in Middletown. As part of the agreement, through Augsburg Energy, Imperial will secure its gross margins in the production of biodiesel and begin hedging its biodiesel fuel production during the period of […]
In Illinois, construction has begun on the $207.5 million carbon capture and storage project at ADM’s ethanol plant in Decatur, near to the existing smaller CCS facility on site. The Dept. of Energy says the project will capture 1 million tons of CO2 annually once it comes online in 2013. The project was partly funded […]
In Kenya, the country’s largest sugar miller Mumias expects to begin construction on its 22 million liter ethanol facility in December. Despite the 2009 drought and cane poaching, the company still managed to report a 21% rise in full year pre-tax profit. It sees ethanol production, along with co-generation from bagasse and drinking water production, […]
In Brazil, UNICA says that mills are favoring sugar production rather than ethanol considering the smaller-than-expected size of the cane crop as well as higher sugar prices globally. Ethanol production between April and Aug. 15 fell 19% on the year to just 12 billion liters with total production seen at 21 billion liters, down from […]
In the Philippines, San Carolos Bioenergy has restarted ethanol production ahead of schedule with 1.08 million liters produced from rejects from potable alcohol distilleries in Negros Occidental – Distileria Bago Inc. and Roxol Distillery. The fuel was delievered to Petron. The company mothballed the facility in June 2010 when it no longer became profitable to […]
In Michigan, BASF reports that that UL Environment and their Environmental Claims Validation have validated environmental and sustainability claims for volatile organic compound emissions and bio-based content of its Spray Polyurethane Foam products. The ECVs covered BASF’s SPF wall insulation, air barrier and roofing products, including: ENERTITE, SPRAYTITE , WALLTITE, COMFORT FOAM , FE348 Series and ELASTOSPRAY.
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In Missouri, the director of the University of Missouri’s Center for Agroforestry says that by planting biomass crops in the flood plains of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers rather than corn and soybeans that are currently planted there but are subject to failure, farmers won’t have to replant crops while biomass production would make the […]
In Thailand, the industry ministry is planning to introduce a set of policy measures to support the ethanol industry to help compensate for the damage done by the suspension of government payments to the Oil Fund. “The Board of Investment should consider attractive privileges aimed at drawing more investors, which go beyond what they can […]
