In the Netherlands, Fashion for Good has launched the ‘Untapped Agricultural Waste Project’ to validate and scale technologies that can successfully transform agricultural waste into sustainable textile fibers. With catalytic funding provided by Laudes Foundation, Fashion for Good partners adidas, BESTSELLER, Vivobarefoot and Birla Cellulose, and six innovators, the consortium project will assess the technical […]
In Nebraska, Union Pacific Railroad will begin using a higher biodiesel blend in locomotives it acquired from Wabtec. The new collaboration helps Union Pacific as it works to increase the percentage of low-carbon fuels consumed to 10% of its total diesel consumption by 2025 and 20% by 2030. Union Pacific will begin testing with B20 […]
In Canada, EverGen Infrastructure Corp., Canada’s Renewable Natural Gas Infrastructure Platform is pleased has entered into a letter of intent with Grow the Energy Circle Ltd. (“GrowTEC”) in its capacity as general partner of CKPPQ Farms LP, dated March 4, 2022, to acquire a 67% interest in a biogas facility in Alberta and to work with GrowTEC […]
In Italy, announced April 27, 2021, NatureWorks and IMA Coffee’s joint strategic partnership accelerates on the first significant trial phase on K-Cup compatible compostable coffee pods. Compatibility testing on capsules, filter, and top lid films are being performed at IMA Coffee Lab with the precise aim to identify and achieve optimum material sealing parameters and […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports Stellantis is looking to produce and sell its ethanol hybrid vehicles by 2025 but the company’s CEO for South America said that a definitive time frame had not yet been set. As many as seven hybrid and electric models could be sold into the region by then. Ethanol is a key […]
In India, Reuters reports that in preparation for achieving 20% ethanol blending by 2025, oil marketing companies are increasing ethanol storage capacity by 51%. The top three companies currently own storage capacity for 178 million liters equating to about 4.3 billion liters annually, considering 15 days storage. To handle 10.6 billion liters by 2025, they’re […]
In Maine, Bangor Daily News reports that following pushback from authorities in Jonesport, bluShift will instead look to do its future rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company says that other Maine towns have expressed interest in hosting launches but Jonesport, the originally hoped for launch site, set up a moratorium on […]
In Spain, Repsol’s Chairman, Antonio Brufau, attended the presentation of the beginning of the construction works of the first advanced biofuels plant in Spain at the company’s Cartagena refinery. Repsol, in alignment with its ambition to become a net zero emissions company by 2050, will invest €200 million in this project that will enable the […]
In Singapore, Jatropha JOil Singapore Pte Limited (JOil) has become the first corporate to be awarded the world-class sustainability certification Gold Standard for its Jatropha plantation in Ghana. Its Jatropha trees produce fruits that are a non-food, low carbon footprint source material for a variety of eco-friendly industrial applications, including biofuel. A best-in-class certification globally […]
In Canada, Pond Technologies Holdings Inc. announced the closing of the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement of 5,500,000 common shares of Pond at a purchase price of C$0.20 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$1,100,000. No warrants will be issued pursuant to the Private Placement. The second tranche of the Private […]
