In Brazil, Case IH has worked in partnership with FPT Industrial to develop an ethanol-powered engine. Case IH presented the prototype at this year’s Agrishow in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. The Cursor 13 propellant is a prototype for the use of fuel derived from sugarcane. It is currently in the development phase and will be tested […]
In Brazil, Bunge Global SA has entered into definitive agreements to sell its 50% share in BP Bunge Bioenergia to bp, its joint venture partner. BP Bunge Bioenergia, a joint venture formed in 2019, combined both companies’ Brazilian bioenergy and sugarcane ethanol businesses with a total of 11 mills located across the Southeast, North and […]
In Brazil, the Foreign Trade Chamber at Brazil’s Ministry of the Economy (CAMEX) upheld an 18 percent tariff on U.S. ethanol last Thursday. With support from the Brazil Association of Fuel Importers (ABICOM), the U.S. ethanol industry and the U.S. government previously submitted comments advocating for permanent tariff removal during a public consultation period that […]
In Brazil, the International Center for Renewable Energy (CIBiogás) and the Brazil-Germany Cooperation for Sustainable Development, through the H2Brasil project, inaugurated, on June 17 the first pilot plant in Brazil for the production of synthetic oil from biogas, focusing on the production of sustainable aviation fuel. With an investment of 1.8 million euros from the […]
In Brazil, during the Biodiesel Forum in São Paulo, Brazil and Mozambique signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint development of biofuels. Signed by Ubrabio and the Mozambican economic stimulus package (PAE) office, represented by João Macaringue, the agreement aims to boost the production of biofuels, aligning with Mozambique’s energy aspirations presented at […]
In Brazil, the Financial Express newspaper reports Praj has delivered its first grain-based ethanol plant in the country for Fermap Industria De Alcool in Ipiranga do Norte, Mato Grosso while it is currently in the engineering phase for a plant for Be8. The Fermpa facility will produce 63,000 liters of ethanol per day from corn […]
In Brazil, FS, a producer of ethanol and animal nutrition said it has just completed technical studies that prove suitable geological conditions for injecting carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted in the fermentation phase of biofuel production, in the subsoil. The firm said it could become the world’s first ethanol producer with a negative carbon footprint and […]
In Brazil, FS has just completed technical studies that prove suitable geological conditions for injecting carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted in the fermentation phase of biofuel production, in the subsoil. Hence, the company can become the world’s first ethanol producer with a negative carbon footprint and the first to develop BECCS technology (acronym in English for […]
In Brazil, AMAGGI will use B100 biodiesel in its river fleet. Still in the testing phase, the company obtained the country’s first authorization to use biofuel in a vessel. The permission was granted last month by the Board of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) and marks another step towards the decarbonization of the company’s operations, […]
In Brazil, Raízen inaugurated last Friday its new Second Generation Ethanol plant at the Bonfim Bioenergy Park, in Guariba (SP). With an investment of R$1.2 billion, the company’s second cellulosic ethanol plant is the largest in the world and has 80% of the volume already contracted with a production capacity of 82 million liters per […]
