Tag: pongamia

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to TerViva

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to TerViva

February 7, 2025 |

This presentation deck highlights Terviva’s efforts to use the pongamia tree as a sustainable biofuel feedstock. Terviva argues that pongamia is uniquely suited to a climate-changing world, as it’s a low-carbon, scalable, and cost-competitive crop with diverse applications. The presentation deck showcases Terviva’s expertise in pongamia cultivation, its robust supply chain across three continents, and […]

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Idemitsu announces Pongamia plantation trial in Australia

Idemitsu announces Pongamia plantation trial in Australia

January 13, 2025 |

In Japan, Idemitsu Kosan said it will launch a trial plantation of Pongamia in Queensland, Australia, to evaluate its suitability as a potential feedstock for SAF using HEFA technology. The trial plantation will be conducted in collaboration with US-based company Terviva and Australian firm Stanmore Resources Limited. As a part of this initiative, Idemitsu Kosan […]

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Terviva gets investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group to scale renewable pongamia for biofuel production

Terviva gets investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group to scale renewable pongamia for biofuel production

October 20, 2024 |

In California, Terviva announced its investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group with the main aim of scaling renewable pongamia for biofuel production. Together, the two companies expect to scale Terviva’s pongamia-growing operations and drive greater availability of pongamia as a feedstock for renewable fuels production.  The new arrangement signals the advancement of pongamia as a […]

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Japanese group partners with Australia’s Queensland state on SAF initiative

Japanese group partners with Australia’s Queensland state on SAF initiative

October 13, 2024 |

In Japan, The Asahi Shimbun reported that a consortium of a Japanese university and businesses will team up with a state government in Australia for a project to mass produce sustainable biofuel for airplanes. The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, which has expertise in cultivating pongamia oil trees, plans to start a demonstration experiment […]

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Rio Tinto launches biofuel crop farming trial for renewable diesel production in Australia

Rio Tinto launches biofuel crop farming trial for renewable diesel production in Australia

September 20, 2024 |

In Australia, Rio Tinto said it will develop Pongamia seed farms in Australia as part of a new biofuels pilot.  The project will explore the potential of Pongamia seed oil as a feedstock for renewable diesel, the firm said. The pilot aims to determine if Pongamia seed oil can contribute to Rio Tinto’s renewable diesel […]

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Florida citrus producers looking to pongamia for salvation

Florida citrus producers looking to pongamia for salvation

July 8, 2024 |

In Florida, the Associated Press reports that some citrus producers have turned to pongamia trees as a replacement for their previous trees that were killed by greening and citrus canker. In hopes that pongamia will be more climate resilient than citrus, Terviva buys the beans from the tree that are too bitter for even wild […]

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