Biofuel
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DuPont breaks ground on Iowa biorefinery
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Last week, DuPont has made a statement on its commitment to cellulosic ethanol as the company broke ground on its planned 30m gal/year biorefinery in Nevada, Iowa. The $200m cellulosic ethanol plant is expected to be completed in mid-2014, and…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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The blog decided to separate the biofuel news from the weekly roundup as there are too many of them and its piling up quickly. Current activities going on in the biofuel industry is the wait-and-watch mode for the much anticipated…
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Algae update: Solazyme et al.
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A lot of activities going on with Solazyme that includes its third quarter earnings report yesterday, the launch of its algal-based diesel to the consumer market, expansion of its production capacity in Brazil through the Bunge joint venture, and finally,…
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Neste Oil expands in bio-naptha
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A short post about Neste Oil’s renewable naphtha product before it gets buried in my draft box.. According to Finnish energy giant Neste Oil, it has launched commercial production and sales of bio-based naptha produced as a co-product of its…
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Novozymes buys 10% stake in Beta Renewables
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Novozymes today announced its 10% acquisition stake worth $115m in Beta Renewables — a cellulosic biofuel joint venture between Chemtex (a division of Italian plastic producer Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi) and investment firm TPG. With this deal, Danish enzymes producer…
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Zeachem completes cellulosic ethanol biorefinery
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I am currently working on my weekly news roundup but in the meantime before Hurricane Sandy cuts off my electricity, I’ll post (separately) these news today that came from Zeachem and Novozymes. Let’s start with Zeachem, which announced today that…
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BP cancels US cellulosic ethanol plans
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UK-based fuel giant BP seems to have caved-in to biofuel market pressures (and investor pressures) as it announced today that it will end its pursuit of commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production in the US. BP said it is cancelling its plans…