In China, Bio-Dynamic Group a joint venture agreement with Shanghai Zhongwei Biochemistry to produce cellulosic ethanol from kenaf. The companies said that they will develop a 2.8 million gallon (10,000 ton per year) plant in 2011, and expand that facility to between 28 and 56 million gallons by 2013. Shanghai Zhongwei will control 75 percent […]
In India, the competition between chemical, spirits and fuel industries for the country’s limited ethanol supply continues with each believing it has the rights to it and may soon come to a head with a decision by the Prime Minister. A committee late last year said the potable sector should get first rights, followed by […]
In Washington, the EPA released a draft version of its Triennial Report to Congress on the ecological impacts of increased biofuels production, focused on life cycle analysis, water-soil-air quality, ecosystem impact and the impact of land use change domestically and internationally. The draft report, which can be downloaded here is based on peer-reviewed literature and […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, shed 2.02 percent to 85.39, the biggest one-day drop in more than two months. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) plunged 1.97 percent to $32.76, while SunOpta (STKL) dropped 5.87 percent to $7.05. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) skidded downwards 6.71 percent to […]
In Iowa, Enrevation Advisors has purchased Tri-City Energy’s biodiesel plant in Keokuk in what is anticipated to be the first of many aquisistions. The plant is currently being retrofitted, switching from soybean feedstock to multiple feedstocks. Enervation expects to produce 5 MGy biodiesel and 4 MGy glycerin at an adjacent facility. Enervation also has an […]
The newspaperman Horace Greeley spent quite a bit of time in his later years denying that he authored the phrase “Go West, Young Man,” and he himself said he got it from the editorialist J.B. Soule. But Greeley liked the phrase and used it, for he saw, like so many, that the westward spread of […]
In China, China Integrated has announced that they expect to complete the construction of its new 50,000-ton biodiesel production facility adjacent to its existing 100,000-ton biodiesel production facility in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, by the end of this month. The total construction cost of the new 50,000-ton biodiesel production facility is now approximately $19.3 million, […]
In Ohio, Environmental Quality Management, a Cincinnati based leading provider of environmental services, and Beacon Energy Holdings, a Cleburne, TX-based leading producer of biodiesel fuel, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. EQM will be merged with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beacon and the current shareholders of EQM will […]
In New York, GreenShift announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued another Notice of Allowance for GreenShift’s corn oil extraction processes, this time for pending patent application number 12/559,136 titled “A Method of Recovering Oil From Thin Stillage.” The claims included in the new allowed patent cover all recovery of corn oil […]
In Finland, enzyme producer MetGen has been awarded the Cleantech company winner of Eurecan European Venture Contest 2010 out of 987 applications from 24 countries. The company has developed innovative enzymes for use in second generation ethanol production as well as for wastewater treatment and to speed up pulp and paper processing. In the contest, […]
