In Massachusetts, Telles and Metabolix have teamed with Billerud Tenova Bioplastics to launch a new commercial line of biobased film solutions. Tenova will use Mirel P5001, a compostable, high biobased film grade resin, to develop and introduce a new line of compostable bags and packaging solutions across Europe.
In Belgium, new biodiesel demand figures for the European Union’s 27 member states show that growth slowed in 2010 while the industry dealt with cheap imports and an unclear policy framework, especially in France, Germany and Spain. Demand for 2010 increased by 13.6%, but that’s a far cry from the 2009’s demand increase of 29% […]
In the Philippines, Eastern Renewables plans to invest in a 100,000 liter per day sugarcane ethanol facility in Negros that will require 10,000 hectares of plantation to supply it. The company says it is renewing its interest in sugarcane and molasses-based ethanol. It is already developing a similar sized facility in Isabella.
In France, Global Bioenergies announced a deal with Poland-based Synthos to develop a new process for the conversion of renewable resources into butadiene, involving research funding, multi-million euro development fees, royalty payments, repartition of exploitation rights, and a $2 million equity investment in Global Bioenergies. Both parties have different responsibilities in the project, with Global […]
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In the UK, the Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University showed that the best month to harvest kelp off the Welsh coast for biofuel was in July when the kelp contained the highest proportions of carbohydrate and the lowest metal content, meaning the cleanest and easiest to use feedstock supply. Individual […]
In Malaysia, the government plans to develop a sustainability scheme for palm oil in response to outcry from NGOs and would-be importers. It, like Malaysia, is developing its own sustainability criteria because they feel that the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil keeps changing the rules, which has slowed the growth of the palm oil industry. […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, plummeted 3.54 percent to 83.66 as renewable equities were slaughtered following the US debt deal. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)plunged 6.17 percent to $28.60 on weak earnings, while Solazyme (SZYM) shed 6.17 percent to $22.29 as its earnings report neared on Thursday. […]
Terrabon creates fuels from the wet, nasty stuff, for a multitude hungry for drop-in alternative fuels Terrabon has been one of the most closely-watched biofuels companies in the country for some time, marching into the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy last year, though they were three years out at the time from completing their first […]
Is there a political solution to biofuels’ troubled evolution? History provides an answer. By Will Thurmond, Emerging Markets Online For more than 40 years, the volatile history of biofuels as a prescriptive solution to petroleum dependency tells a valuable story of political hope, business enthusiasm, market growth, inspiration for change, revolution, and inevitably market evolution […]
