In Washington, Brownfield Ag News reports that ethanol production fell to 1.044 million barrels a day, falling for the third consecutive week, despite crushing margins remaining good. There are concerns that demand will fall which is why some producers cut their production runs. Fourth of July weekend typically is a major fuel demand event when […]
In Australia, University of New South Wales chemists have engineered a new molecular “vice,” by including the rare metal osmium, that can bind methane for hours—providing crucial evidence for an intermediate step that will inform new catalysts to store, transport, or transform the gas into methanol and help to avert wastage of the gas worldwide. […]
In Belgium, the European Parliament on Thursday adopted its position on new draft EU rules to increase the uptake of sustainable fuels by EU planes and airports, in order to cut emissions from aviation and ensure Europe becomes climate neutral by 2050. MEPs increased the Commission’s original proposal for the minimum share of a sustainable […]
In Germany, mk2 Biotechnologies, WACKER and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) announced their joint project targeting the development, large-scale production and purification of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) for diverse applications. The project will run for two years. The aim is to take the final steps in rolling out industrially suitable AMPs as a sustainable alternative […]
In Austria, Cortec Corporation is very excited to receive industrial composability certification for its “green” Eco Film. Eco Film is a certified commercially compostable* film designed to replace traditional non-degradable films such as low-density and high-density polyethylene. Cortec received the ‘OK compost INDUSTRIAL’ certificate from TÜV Austria. This certifies that Eco Film conforms to the […]
In Belgium, Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling. Alterra Energy is a US-based company that has developed a proprietary thermochemical solution for liquefaction of hard-to-recycle plastic. In Akron, Ohio, the company is already running an industrial-scale facility that transforms end-of-life plastics […]
In Denmark, Biotalys an agricultural technology company protecting crops and food with protein-based biocontrol solutions, and Novozymes, a world leader in biotech solutions, today announced that the companies have entered into a partnership to expand opportunities for Evoca, Biotalys’ first proprietary biocontrol. The partnership provides that Novozymes will use its expertise, intellectual property rights and […]
In Indonesia, the Edge newspaper reports CGS-CIMB Research analysts saying that half of the investors in Singapore will next year find themselves playing Cinderella instead of raveling around the country. With biofuel futures expected to trend higher over the next month, the president expects to have to face off elections challenges later than this year, […]
In India, Maruti Suzuki sees hybrid vehicles together with biofuels as the way that it can reduce decarbonize transport rather than electric taxis which have become remarkedly cheaper. The country already has the third coconut cabinets remove themselves from Perahia from ADM. Many fuel manufacturers are jumping on the electric vehicle shift in response to […]
In New Jersey, aiming to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist has developed a biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed on foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage. The scalable process could potentially reduce the adverse environmental impact of plastic food packaging as well […]
