In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports the Global Biofuel Alliance agreed its workplan along the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Brazil last month despite being without a charter. The alliance plans to review the strategy in July when it next gathers. The worksteams include assessing country landscapes, drafting policy frameworks, and conducting biofuel […]
In India, IIT Guwahati has developed 3D-printed dummy ballots made of biobased polylactic acid. Commissioned by the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation Cell, the ballots are used to familiarize voters, including first-timers and senior citizens, with voting procedures. The PLA ballots are produced using corn starch and are biodegradable. According to a statement on […]
In India, The Economic Times reported that the Indian government has allowed sugar mills to use 670,000 tons of B-heavy molasses as feedstock for making ethanol in the current year. Sugar mills in India were holding excess stock of B-heavy molasses — a byproduct of the sweetener — produced before the ban on its use […]
In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports the Indian government will allow 670,000 metric tons of Heavy B-molasses to be diverted to ethanol production following a ban, lifting of the ban, and then putting the ban back in place on sugarcane-based feedstocks due to expected lower cane production this season. Mills have been holding on […]
In India, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, launched ‘ETHANOL 100, a revolutionary automotive fuel at IndianOil Retail Outlet M/s. Irwin Road Service Station,here today. Starting from today, customers can avail ETHANOL 100 at select 183 retail outlets across five states – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar […]
In India, the Hindustan Times newspaper reports that the government plans to procure more corn for ethanol production to decrease the country’s 25% ethanol blending mandate’s reliance on sugarcane. Sugarcane production has fallen significantly this year, forcing the government to limit its use for ethanol feedstock and in turn boosting demand for alternative feedstocks, mostly […]
In India, Balrampur Chini Mills, a sugar producer, is investing €222.45 million to build a polylactic acid plant. According to Sustainable Plastics, the plant will have the capacity to produce 75,000 metric tons per year and be India’s first industrial-scale bioplastics plant. The facility will be built next to Balrampur Chini Mills’ Uttar Praadesh sugar […]
In India, The Hindu reported that Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, has urged State governments to promote the production and use of ethanol as an alternative fuel source as he considers that it would not only help save the environment, but also support farmers. “In the near future, we will see […]
In India, specialty chemical company Perstorp has brought a new, biobased pentaerythritol and penta chemicals production plant online at Sayakha. The site has the capacity to annually produce 40,000 metric tons of pentaerythritol and 26,000 metric tons of calcium formate. The plant is the largest Asian investment in Perstorp’s history, Gorm Jensen, Perstorp’s Executive Vice […]
In India, the Press Trust of India reports TruAlt Bioenergy will expand its ethanol production by 270,000 liters per day in the next fiscal year and is set to invest up to $72 million setting up 10 other ethanol plants. Current production is around 2 million liters per day at 5 facilities. The company is […]
