In Minnesota, Cortex has announced the commercial availability of EcoOcean, a new bioplastic that offers flexibility and strength; commercial and low-temperature backyard compostability, 77% annually renewable raw material content, anaerobic and marine biodegradability. Moris Miksic, Cortex CEO, states, “EcoOcean will revolutionize the use of flexible packaging, especially in coastal areas of the world.”
In Spain, biodiesel imports are continuing to increase with May seeing the highest volume so far in 2011 at 84,580 metric tons, up from 75,766 tons in May 2010 and 79,817 tons during the previous month. So far 2011 imports through May total 403,011 tons, up from 275,873 tons during the same period last year.
In Washington, the US Grains Council has successfully lobbied the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to include ethanol byproducts corn gluten feed (CGF) and distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to its subsidized animal feed import list, with the potential of 500,000 tons of imports in the near future. Imports could eventually reach a million tons, […]
In France, a farmers cooperative in St. Aquilin in Dordogne have begun collecting the over-abundant duck fat in the region to produce biodiesel for their tractors and other farm equipment. Though there are also pig and calf renderings as well as some used cooking oil included in the mixture, the vast majority is duck fat. […]
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In Maryland, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have found that bacteria can dramatically degrade pipelines when they feed on ethanol and produce acid. Acid boosted fatigue crack growth rates by at least 25 times the levels occuring in air alone. The results are meant to help pipeline engineers determine which materials […]
In Canada, a fight is brewing over the federal government’s decision to permanently exempt Newfoundland and Labrador from the 2% biodiesel blending mandate for transport and heating fuel, with the national association of renewable fuels pointing the finger at the oil and gas lobby. The province is already exempt from E5 with the argument being […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, plunged a record 7.82 percent to 70.56, its lowest point in 10 months, as global equities melted and advanced biofuels were slammed. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) plummeted 8.21 percent to $26.29, while Solazyme (SZYM) was routed 18.51 percent to $14.35. Among […]
Jumpin’ Jack Flash! It’s a gas, gas, gas! New technologies bring gases into the vanguard of advanced biofuels feedstocks. In traditional biofuels, the story to date been all about solids and liquids – grains, juices, mash, slurries and eventually files, chemicals and biomaterials. A lot of the early companies through the advanced biofuels IPO gate […]
In Iowa, Soy Energy will reportedly begin production at its 30 Mgy biodiesel plant in Mason City next week. Soy Energy’s website describes the plant as having a “Flexible Front End” feedstock.
