In Romania, Economica reports Corden BioChem bought this year the decommissioned Clariant bioethanol factory in Podari, Dolj County. Now the company could resume production of bioethanol, after the Competition Council authorized the takeover by the industrial giant of the firm that supplies the steam and electricity plant. The Competition Council has authorized the transaction through […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. has completed the sale transaction of Agri-Energy, LLC (“Agri”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gevo, to A.E. Innovation, LLC. The transaction includes Agri’s 18-million-gallon-per-year ethanol-production facility and a portion of the adjacent land, located in Luverne, Minnesota. For Gevo, this is a divestiture of a non-core asset that provided $2 million […]
In India, K2 Ethanol has awarded ANDRITZ a contract to build integrated ethanol and animal-feed production plants in India. The project will include the country’s first ethanol plant powered by agro-residue, supporting India’s renewable energy goals and the sustainable use of agricultural residues. The greenfield project covers an ethanol distillery with a capacity of 150,000 […]
In Germany, scientists wondered how do you turn toxic waste into fuel? Ask the microbe. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, experimentally demonstrates the molecular tricks used by the gas-converting microbe Clostridium autoethanogenum to […]
In Egypt, the Egypt Independent newspaper reports the Prime Minister inaugurated the $4 million “Kemet for Integrated Industries” ethanol plant in Sokhna Industrial Zone of the Suez Canal Economic Zone last Sunday. The facility will use sugarcane and beet molasses feedstock to produce 2 million liters of ethanol per year. The ethanol, which will be […]
In Brazil, National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) approved financing of R$ 300 million to expand the corn plant of Neomille S.A. in Chapadão do Céu (GO). The supported investments will allow the unit to increase its capacity of ethanol production of corn to up to 527,000 m3 per crop, of DDGS (dry […]
In Indonesia, Tempo reports that the government plans to grow cassava on 1 million hectares of land around the country to use as feedstock for ethanol production that will in turn allow it to blend 10% ethanol into gasoline. In addition to the cassava acreage, another 400,000 hectares of sugarcane is expected to be grown […]
In Thailand, the Nation newspaper reports the government plans to start requiring 1% sustainable aviation fuel blending from next year which will ramp up to 8% over the following decade. By 2037, demand is expected to reach 675 million liters of SAF annually. With the road fleet transition to electric vehicles, domestic ethanol production is […]
In Brazil, CNN Brasil reports president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), defended at an event in the city of São Paulo, on Monday the increase in the mixture of ethanol in gasoline, to 35%. The percentage was recently raised to 30%. The mandatory percentage of anhydrous ethanol mixed with ordinary gasoline in […]
In India, the Financial Express newspaper reports grain-based ethanol production capacity is now far outweighing demand after the Oil Marketing Companies floated a tender for just 10.5 billion liters when 17.7 billion liters had been offered, of which just 4.7 billion liters came from sugarcane-based feedstock and the rest from grains. Grain-based ethanol producers are […]
