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March 15, 2010
A consortium of 28 companies and research institutes has begun a four-year project to develop an efficient biorefinery system for converting biomass into final chemical products. Named...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/EU-Consortium-Begins-Biorefinery-Development-Project_25395.html March 8, 2010
The Lorraine Regional Council in France has joined forces with Arkema and two local university laboratories to back a research program into bio-based acrylics manufacture. Christian...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/Arkema-Reinforces-Research-into-Bio-Based-Acrylics_25218.html February 19, 2010
Sugar and ethanol company ETH Bioenergia (São Paulo) and renewable energy company Brenco (São Paulo) say that ETH has taken over Brenco and that they have completed an...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/ETH-and-Brenco-Merge_24886.html February 16, 2010
New enzymes will lower costs for cellulosic biofuel producers, both firms say....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Novozymes-Genencor-Launch-Improved-Enzymes-for-Cellulosic-Biofuels_24813.html February 10, 2010
Some start-ups entering the biofuels sector already are revealing themselves as winners in certain market applications even though there is no shortage of mature biofuel companies...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/Biofuels-Firms-Rated-New-Order-Emerges_24679.html February 5, 2010
A committee representing European Union (EU) member states has accepted a European Commission proposal to direct funds raised from the region’s emissions trading scheme (ETS)...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/EU-Agrees-to-Pump-Billions-of-Dollars-into-CCS-and-Renewables_24607.html February 3, 2010
President Obama today announced it will form a U.S. Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to develop a “comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/U-S-Launches-Climate-Program-Focused-on-CCS-Advanced-Biofuels_24580.html January 25, 2010
Process improvements have enabled a more direct and cost-efficient route to producing gasoline from carbon dioxide, the company says....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/gas_tol_iquids/Carbon-Sciences-Hopes-to-Commercialize-CO2-to-Gasoline-Process-Within-a-Year_24916.html January 21, 2010
Novozymes (Copenhagen), an enzymes technology firm, says its operating profit for fourth quarter 2009 increased 16% to DKr 431 million ($81 million), compared to the year-ago period...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Novozymes-Grows-in-2009-Expects-a-Boost-from-U-S-Biofuels-in-2010_24230.html January 21, 2010
Bioamber (Pomacle, France), a three year old joint venture between DNP Green Technology (Princeton, NJ) and (Agro-industrie Recherches et Développements (ARD; Pomacle), an...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biorefineries/Start-up-Commissions-First-Commercial-Biosuccinic-Acid-Plant_24232.html January 20, 2010
Axens (Paris), a petrochemicals technology provider, and Headwaters (South Jordan, UT), a materials technology firm, say they have created a joint venture company Alliance DCL, to...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/coal_to_liquids/Axens-and-Headwaters-Create-Coal-Liquefaction-Tech-JV_24197.html January 13, 2010
The process can be used in coal-to-chemical plants....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/coal_to_liquids/Davy-Methanation-Technology-Selected-for-Plant-in-China_24098.html January 11, 2010
Novozymes, an enzymes technology firm, says it has received an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit of $28.4 million from the U.S. government to fund a new biofuel enzymes facility...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Novozymes-Secures-$28-4-Million-Tax-Credit-to-Build-Nebraska-Enzymes-Plant_24055.html January 6, 2010
Never before has there been so much uncertainty over the future supply and demand for hydrocarbons, particularly in transport, which accounts for 50% of primary oil consumption. Some...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/Disruptive-Technologies-in-Transport-Fuels_23921.html December 28, 2009
U.S. agribusiness firm Bunge (White Plains, NY) says it has agreed to purchase Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Unisa Moema Participações (Moema; São Paulo)...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Bunge-Buys-Sugar-Ethanol-Assets-in-Brazil_23788.html December 23, 2009
Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) says its biofuels subsidiary has signed a six-month memorandum of understanding with PetroChina to study possible...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Petrobras-PetroChina-to-Study-Joint-Ethanol-Projects-in-Brazil_23759.html December 18, 2009
The Copenhagen climate negotiations have focused on securing a deal to cut absolute levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and create a system for financing poorer nations’...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Copenhagen-Vision-for-a-Bio-based-Society-Emerges_23689.html December 16, 2009
Valero Renewable Fuels says it has bought three ethanol plants at bankruptcy auctions for a total of $472 million, roughly 41% of the plants' estimated replacement cost....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/Valero-Finds-More-Ethanol-Plant-Bargains_23570.html December 8, 2009
Bayer Technology Services (BTS) says it entered into a global licensing agreement with Dow Water & Process Technology for BayFame, a continuous process developed by BTS for the esterification of free fatty acids (FFA) to biodiesel based on a Dow catalyst....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/Bayer-Technology-Services-Inks-Licensing-Deal-with-Dow_23359.html December 8, 2009
Myriant says the DOE identified succinic acid as one of the top 12 chemicals, by market size, that can be produced from biomass....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biorefineries/Myriant-Awarded-DOE-Funds-for-Biobased-Succinic-Acid-Project_23356.html |
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