Companies in Europe plan to boost SAF production

Companies in Europe, including Finland's Neste and Italy's Eni, are planning to boost production of sustainable aviation fuel.

Date : 2021-08-04

Source : SP Global

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Biofuel company produces negative-carbon heating fuel made from forest waste

Biofine Developments Northeast, a biofuel producer announced an agreement with the town of Lincoln to establish a biorefinery. The plant will convert forest waste into a biofuel called ethyl levulinate (EL), which can replace heating oil or be blended into it alongside other renewable fuels.

Date : 2021-08-02

Source : Waste 360

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Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)’s million $ dairy innovation hub

The project, planned to complete in 2024, will include a new co-innovation hub with co-working spaces; a ‘digital twin’ model of a dairy farm to help decarbonise the industry; a modern biorefinery for manure, grass and milk; and laboratories focussing on maximising value and reducing energy consumption and waste.

Date : 2021-07-26

Source : Architects Journal

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Ethanol: Fuel for the Future?

Ethanol expected to keep pumping in US despite recent financial, policy challenges

Date : 2021-07-08

Source : DTN

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€15m project to build world’s largest sustainable microalgae biorefinery

French producer of microalgae ingredients, Microphyt, is leading a €15m mission to develop the world’s largest fully-integrated microalgae biorefinery which will see the production of new products and a five-fold increase in capacity.

Date : 2021-07-05

Source : Nutraingredients

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Mississippi-based biorefinery project to convert CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel

Sustainable fuel technology company Velocys has signed a strategic framework agreement with Koch Project Solutions to develop a biorefinery project in Natchez, Mississippi, that will utilise both renewable power and carbon capture and storage.

Date : 2021-06-30

Source : Gas world

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Fintoil’s hamina biorefinery fully financed

Fintoil issued a EUR 70 million green bond. A total of EUR 130 million in debt and equity financing has now been raised for the biorefinery investment making it fully financed. The biorefinery will be the world’s third largest crude tall oil refinery.

Date : 2021-06-28

Source : Euractiv

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Siemens Energy wins contract to electrify a biorefinery in Germany

Siemens Energy AG will electrify Finnish company UPM-Kymmene Oyj's biorefinery in Leuna, Germany.

Date : 2021-06-23

Source : Market watch

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Biofuel company Greenjoules raises $4.52 million from Blue Ashva Capital

The funds raised include equity and debt component that will be utilized to set up commercial-scale waste-to-energy plants and spent in R&D

Date : 2021-06-10

Source : Mercom India

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Kelp-focused firm Oceanium garners GBP 2 million investment

Oceanium, the Oban, Scotland-based biotech start-up focused on the development of innovative biodegradable materials and products derived from sustainably-sourced kelp, closed a USD 2.7 million seed II funding round.

Date : 2021-05-27

Source : Sea food source

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Testing starts for renewable gasoline in Europe

Finnish refiner and biofuels producer Neste is testing a renewable gasoline as a potential drop-in, lower-carbon fuel for conventional internal combustion cars.

Date : 2021-05-25

Source : SP Global

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Biorefinery to reopen on back on UK E10 plans

Vivergo Fuels site in Hull will be reopening following an announcement by the Department for Transport that E10 petrol will be introduced at pumps across the UK from September.

Date : 2021-05-20

Source : Biofuels

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Biomega’s new biorefinery set sights on nutrition sector with fish oil offerings

Salmon oil specialists Biomega is to expand operations by investing in a biorefinery in Denmark that will drive salmon peptide production as the firm sets its sights on the human health and nutrition market.

Date : 2021-05-14

Source : Nutra ingredient

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Praj Industries bags order for syrup-based ethanol plant from Godavari Biorefineries

Praj will expand the existing sugarcane syrup based ethanol manufacturing capacity of Godavari Biorefineries from 400 KLPD to 600 KLPD.

Date : 2021-04-12

Source : Money Control

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Total starts biojet production at La Mede biorefinery

Total has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel or biojet, at its La Mede biorefinery in southern France.

Date : 2021-04-08

Source : Argus media

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Neste selects Rotterdam as location for proposed biorefinery

Neste announced an intention to increase its renewable products production capacity in Europe. The company has now concluded a thorough study phase concerning the two possible locations, Finland and the Netherlands.

Date : 2021-03-16

Source : Biomass Magazine

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Biofuel's thirst for green hydrogen opens new market for utilities

Finnair is pioneering the use of sustainable aviation fuel, made in a process using hydrogen. Growth in demand for the biofuel creates opportunities for utilities developing green hydrogen solutions for biorefinery.

Date : 2021-02-10

Source : SP Global

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NetJets invests in WasteFuel, commits to purchase of SAF

NetJets announced it has made a significant investment in WasteFuel, a next generation waste to fuel company that aims to transform landfill waste into sustainable aviation fuel, making it the first private aviation company to buy a stake in the production of sustainable aviation fuel.

Date : 2021-02-10

Source : Biomass magazine

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Biorefinery plans to establish operations in Goose Creek

The home of a new $90 million crude tall oil biorefinery will be in Berkeley County. The company Mainstream Pine Products will run a 10-acre facility that plans to produce high-quality, low cost producers of CTO byproducts in North America..

Date : 2021-02-03

Source : ABC News4

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10-acre biorefinery coming to Berkeley County

Mainstream Pine Products announced plans to build a crude tall oil biorefinery at the Charleston International Manufacturing Center located in Berkeley County. The 10-acre, $90 million biorefinery will be an advanced recycling facility with capacity to process 110,000 tons of CTO for use in a wide range of industrial operations + products.

Date : 2021-02-02

Source : CHS Today

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Work starts on world-class biorefinery for the Hunter

Work has started on the first bio-renewables research facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere which will put the Hunter region on the map as a national hub for biorenewables research, development and commercialisation.

Date : 2021-01-17

Source : New Castle

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Thermax bags Rs 320 crore deal from Assam Bio Refinery

Energy and environment solutions provider Thermax has bagged Rs 320 crore order for setting up a captive Combined Heat and Power plant for Assam Bio Refinery Pvt Ltd.

Date : 2020-11-02

Source : CIO elets

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Italy's Eni eyes more biorefinery conversions

Italian integrated oil company Eni said today it could speed up domestic refinery conversions to build new hydrotreated vegetable oil plants.

Date : 2020-10-28

Source : Argus media

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Companies in Europe plan to boost SAF production

Biofuel company produces negative-carbon heating fuel made from forest waste

Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)’s million $ dairy innovation hub

Ethanol: Fuel for the Future?

€15m project to build world’s largest sustainable microalgae biorefinery

Mississippi-based biorefinery project to convert CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel

Fintoil’s hamina biorefinery fully financed

Siemens Energy wins contract to electrify a biorefinery in Germany

Biofuel company Greenjoules raises $4.52 million from Blue Ashva Capital

Kelp-focused firm Oceanium garners GBP 2 million investment

Testing starts for renewable gasoline in Europe

Biorefinery to reopen on back on UK E10 plans

Biomega’s new biorefinery set sights on nutrition sector with fish oil offerings

Praj Industries bags order for syrup-based ethanol plant from Godavari Biorefineries

Total starts biojet production at La Mede biorefinery

Neste selects Rotterdam as location for proposed biorefinery

Biofuel's thirst for green hydrogen opens new market for utilities

NetJets invests in WasteFuel, commits to purchase of SAF

Biorefinery plans to establish operations in Goose Creek

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