The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rallied 1.25 percent to 63.34, an eight-week high, as enzyme equities surged. For the day, Codexis (CDXS) advanced 3.54 percent to $2.34, while Gevo (GEVO) soared 10.14 percent to $1.52. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) jumped 6.44 percent to $8.60. Overall, advances led declines […]
Next-gen renewable oils producer achieves first linear scale-up to 500,000 liter fermenters — clears path for large commercial production volumes. In biofuels, the “ethanol blend wall” gets a tremendous amount of attention. This is the restriction on ethanol blending in gasoline to (today) 10 percent. It limits overall US ethanol distribution, and vexes ethanol producers […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association advises that, according to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 824,000 barrels per day (b/d) – or 34.61 million gallons daily. That is down 11,000 b/d from the week before. The four week average for ethanol production stood at 818,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 12.54 billion gallons. Stocks […]
In California, the Imperial Valley News is reporting that the California State Division of Measurement Standards, part of the Department of Food & Agriculture, has tested and sample of 20 percent renewable diesel blends, produced by Solazyme and distributed by Propel Fuels as part of a pilot program in Berkeley, Oakland, Redwood City and San […]
In Oregon, local media is reporting that the Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery in Clatskanie, which halted ethanol production earlier this year as grain prices rose, has switched it operations over to logitics and distribution for both ethanol and crude oil. The plant, which reduced its workforce from 70 to 20 earlier this year when ethanol spreads […]
In the US and Brazil, the WASDE global crop reports and UNICA’s sugarcane forecasts were released. According to RFA’s Christina Martin, “Today’s WASDE report was a non-event as far as the U.S. corn balance sheet. The only change was a slight decrease in the 2012/13 season-average price estimate, from $7.60/bu. to $7.40/bu. However, there were […]
In Tanzania, AllAfrica is reporting that villagers are protesting to the national government over being excluded, in their view, from the signing of large land contracts for biofuels and other investments. The villagers noted that in at least one case, a large biofuel land contract was converted to wood production and export, with n o […]
In Germany, German automakers have launched a US promotion campaign for clean diesel vehicles in the U.S. was welcomed today with the hope that it can accelerate current market successes for domestic clean diesel vehicle sales, according to Allen Schaeffer, the Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum. The new promotional diesel campaign was announced […]
In the Netherlands, Reverdia, the joint venture between DSM and Roquette Frères has commenced operations in Cassano Spinola, Italy, at a commercial-scale plant producing Biosuccinium sustainable succinic acid. The plant has a capacity of 10,000 tonnes/yr. Key applications for Biosuccinium™ include polybutylene succinate (PBS), polyester polyols for polyurethanes, coating and composite resins, phthalate-free plasticizers, and […]
In Malaysia, the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) has completed a 6000 Jarak Pagar (Jatropa Curcas) tree pilot project, dating back to 2009, and the agency said it is ready to proceed to commercial scale. FRIM said it will grow jatropha on land obtained from the Terengganu state government — the state, official told […]
