In the Philippines, following requests by the local ethanol industry to impose an import tariff of 20% compared to the current 1% tariff, that was brought down from a previous 10%, a Cabinet technical working group together with the Department of Finance is validating the data on the matter and will then present the findings […]
In South Dakota, POET announced that W. Wade Robey, Ph.D has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer, in charge of the company’s research and commercial development activities. Previously, Robey worked for enzymes-maker Novozymes as Head of Marketing, Americas.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, tumbled 3.60 percent to 71.30 as global equities melted anew on fears of a French banking crisis. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) slumped 5.56 percent to $26.17, while Gushan (GU) soared 22.79 percent to $1.67. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) plummeted 11.82 […]
In Tennessee, a research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory projected that the US would have between 1.1 and 1.6 billion tons of available, sustainable biomass for industrial bioprocessing by 2030. The update states: “in 2022…the feedstock shown in the baseline scenario account for conventional biofuels (corn grain ethanol and biodiesel) and shows 602 […]
Land-use, economics, infrastructure policy for biofuels? You’ve been asking – here are the latest answers to real questions from the field. At the Biomass 2011 conference in Washington, a lively debate session provided a bumper crop of questions from the audience – too many to answer at the time. At the same time, it offers […]
In Delaware, Butamax Advanced Biofuels filed a second patent infringement case against Gevo. The lawsuit is based on an alleged infringement, by Gevo, of U.S. Patent No. 7,993,889 which describes Butamax’s foundational methods for low-cost production of biobutanol. The patent was officially granted this week by the US Patent and Trademark Office, The Butamax intellectual […]
In California, Rentech reported a 47 percent jump in Q3 revenue, to $74.4 million on higher prices for nitrogen fertilizer and higher sales volume of urea ammonium nitrate. The company reported net income of $7.9 million, or $0.04 per basic share, for the quarter, up from a net loss of $1.7 million in Q3 2010. […]
In Louisiana, Vanguard Synfuels biodiesel plant in Pollock has been brought back online after a several-year pause, bringing with it 25 new jobs. The facility, which started its life in the 1970s as an ammonia plant, was reborn into a soybean-based biodiesel plant in 2003 but shut down in 2007 when the feedstock got too […]
In Germany, BASF and Purac have started negotiations to form a joint venture for the production of bio-based succinic acid. The two companies have been conducting research since 2009, which has lead to a sustainable and efficient manufacturing process based on a proprietary microorganism. The two companies are looking to have a 25,000 ton fermentation […]
In Brazil, the director of the director of the Brazilian Infrastructure Center told a conference that the country is expected to need ethanol imports for the next four years due to backwards gasoline policy. Despite sugar and ethanol production costs rising 38% during the past five years, because Petrobras has not raised gasoline prices since […]
