In the UK, D1 Oils has sold its 100,000 metric ton per year biodiesel processing facility in Bromborough for $4.1 million to Black Pearl Capital Partners. The sale took place earlier in the year but was part of D1’s stock market statement. More on the story.
In Ohio, the state government is offering Green Bay, Wis.-based Greenwood Fuels tax incentives to encourage it to set up a biofuel plant in Hamilton using municipal solid waste as a feedstock, and the tax breaks offered would depend on the number of jobs created there. Supporters said the $11 million project would generate up […]
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In Louisiana, Aquatic Energy announced that two senior energy executives, C. Maury Devine and Robert Zulandi, have joined its Board of Directors. In Ohio, Mike Bishop is the new general manager at POET Biorefining – Fostoria. In California, SG Biofuels named Miguel Motta as vice president of marketing and strategy. Motta joins SG Biofuels from Monsanto.
In Japan, Toyota has developed a technology to analyze sugarcane DNA that will shorten the time required to improve varieties for ethanol production to about four years, half of the time it takes now. The technology was jointly developed with the National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region. More on the story.
In the UK, the country risks missing a crucial deadline on Sunday to implement the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive while it continues to implement its own policies under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. The government says it is working to align the RTFO sustainability standard with the criteria set out in RED so that […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.13 percent to 77.97 as most large caps fell. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) dropped 0.73 percent to $29.95, while The Andersons (ANDE) gained 2.08 percent to $36.79. Among other equities, Valero (VLO) fell 0.71 percent to $21.09. Overall, declines led […]
In yesterday’s release of the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2010-11, we noted the large number of companies that have expanded their product portfolio to include renewable chemicals. Amyris, Solazyme, LS9, Gevo, Codexis, Virent, Mascoma, Cobalt Technologies, Genencor, Joule Unlimited, Bluefire Renewables, Algenol, ZeaChem, LanzaTech, Terrabon, and Fulcrum Bioenergy all have indicated that renewable […]
“50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” CEOs; administration officials, investors, and scientists to attend the industry’s best networking and partnering event. Readers: I am delighted to announce that Biofuels Digest’s Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference will return on April 19-21, 2010, at the Capital Hilton, in Washington DC. For complete conference and registration information, visit here. Last […]
In the UK, the Global Sugar Alliance is seeking an end to trade subsidies for both ethanol and sugar, saying that trade barriers won’t help the industry to grow. The Australian Sugar Alliance Trade Committee says government intervention may be justified for a limited period to protect emerging industries, like ethanol. They say that if […]
