Ethanol supporters in the US and Australia and first-gen fuels advocates of conventional ethanol and biodiesel in the EU are striking out against what they see as misguided reports that have appeared across three continents this week — all aimed ultimately at derailing mandates that support market access for biofuels. In the US: looking at […]
Is your business model based on government regulations or fuel science? By Bill Brandon, Special to The Digest In light of the recent article on Butamax, I feel a response from the perspective of automakers is appropriate. One of the earlier articles referenced asked “ where’s butanol, or other substitutes for gasoline besides ethanol?” and went […]
In France, Cray Valley has launched new tackifying resins produced with Amyris’ biologically derived Biofene branded farnesene. Tack is the measure of stickiness — vital to everything from adhesives that need to hold things in place to inks that need to stay on the printed page. According to independent market research firm, MarketsandMarkets.com, the global […]
In Belgium, to counter the impact of unsustainable palm oil production, such as deforestation and habitat degradation, particularly in South-East Asia, the EU should introduce a single certification scheme for palm oil entering the EU market and phase out the use of vegetable oils that drive deforestation by 2020, say MEPs in a resolution voted […]
In Switzerland, Cargill and Evolva inked a major collaboration pact for the production and commercialisation of EverSweet, the next-generation stevia sweetener. This product is on track for a 2018 launch, securing its first-mover advantage. Over the next three years, principally in 2018 and 2019, Evolva expects to invest an estimated USD 60 million in the […]
BP and DuPont’s JV Butamax, acquires Nesika Energy ethanol plant, heads for commercial-scale biobutanol In Delaware, the BP/DuPont joint venture Butamax has acquired the 10 million gallon annual capacity Nesika Energy ethanol facility in Scandia, Kansas. Butamax will now start the detailed engineering work to add bio-isobutanol capacity to the facility, while continuing to produce […]
The sudden, exciting and apparently material news arrived via press release last week that Edeniq has succeeded in knocking down two counts of the Aemetis lawsuit against it. It’s unusual to get press releases about lawsuits and cross-filings. Most companies avoid them like the plague — usually they come out at judgment time, not filing […]
In the EU, a new online tool which can track the use of bio-based raw materials in products has been launched as a pilot by project partners AkzoNobel, Advanced Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (ABT) and EY. It will be the first ever tool to use e-certification to track bio-based content along the value chain. Many […]
In California, the Urban Air Initiative called the results of a new Coordinating Research Council emissions study one more example of the biased and flawed testing procedures used to penalize ethanol. The CRC’s match blending of test fuels fails to recognize how ethanol truly performs in real world fuels, the group said. And this inaccurate […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the , ethanol production averaged 1.054 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.27 million gallons daily. That is a 10,000 b/d increase from the week before and a seven-week high. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to 1.041 million b/d for an annualized rate of 15.96 […]
