http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:18:29 EDT The European Union (EU) has launched antisubsidy and antidumping investigations into imports of biodiesel from the U.S. The European Commission says that complaints lodged earlier this month by... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/12597.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Technip says it has been awarded a cost-plus-fee services contract by Neste Oil for a previously announced new-generation diesel... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/12609.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Gasrec (London) says it has successfully produced the first batch of liquid fuel from carbon dioxide (CO2) at its new plant located on the site of Sita UK's (Meadenhead, U.K.) Surrey, U.K.-based... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/gas_tol_iquids/12555.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Technology company Inventure Chemicals (Seattle, WA) says it has formed a joint venture with Seambiotic (Tel Aviv) for the construction of a 108,000-gal/year biofuel facility at Israeli Electric... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biorefineries/12534.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Evonik Industries says it will discontinue production of orthoesters at its Niederkassel, Germany plant in the third quarter of this year, due to overcapacity, high raw... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/12389.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Global Energy Trading Company (Getco; Fort Lauderdale, FL) says it has begun buying up “large tracts of land in Colombia and Peru” on which to grow jatropha, a weed-like shrub, for... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/12375.html Tue, 10 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Allegro Biodiesel (Los Angeles) has signed a letter of intent to sell its biodiesel venture Vanguard Synfuels, which operates a 12-million gal/year... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/12231.html Mon, 2 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Süd-Chemie and Linde say they have entered into an exclusive cooperation agreement to jointly develop commercial-scale technologies for the production of second-generation biofuels. The... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/bioethanol/12088.html Mon, 26 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Environmental pressure group Greenpeace in the past few days says it has stepped up its campaign to raise awareness about rainforests in Indonesia that are being destroyed to make way for palm... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/11544.html Thu, 24 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT The facility will have a global scope, the company says.... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/alternative_fuels/biodiesel/11410.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT