D1 Oils has signed with Keygene to obtain exclusive rights to Keygene’s applied research on jatropha.
D1 has a $90 million joint venture with BP, and has 338,000 acres under jatropha production with plans to plant more than 80,000 acres in Swaziland, Zambia, Madagascar, Mali and Malawi.
In England, D1 Oils is opening a $14 million biodiesel plant in Bromborough. The 100 million metric ton plant will add a further 100,000 ton capacity next year when D1 Oil's jatropha oil stocks ar...
In India, B M Khaitan Group companies Eveready Industries India Ltd (EIIL), McLeod Russel India (MRIL) and McNally Bharat Engineering are reported on tradingmarkets.com to be seeking biofuels acquisit...
In Kenya, the Green Power East Africa jatropha biodiesel plant in Nairobi is attracting much attention from local farmers, as jatropha continues to be a hot topic across the continents.
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Mali Biocarburant is intending to be the first jatropha biodiesel company to commence production in Africa. The company buys jatropha nuts from farmers who have planted 20,000 km of jatropha fences in...
In Brazil, Viridas has contracted to supply up to 60,000 tonnes per year jatropha oil for biodiesel for 10 years to INEOS. Viridas will have the right to sell excess jatropha oil in the marketplace....
In England, D1 Oils officially announced that it would close its rapeseed oil biodiesel plant in Teesside and lay off 40 workers until it could sell the plant. The company said that it would close pla...
