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	View Edit Domain: BioEnergy Title: * Body: HAMBURG, Germany - German bioenergy company Verbio said on Monday it would cut German bioethanol production in September, largely because of competition from cheap imports.The company`s 100,000-tonne-per-year plant at Zoerbig in east Germany will run down production this month and put its workforce on short-time working, the company said in a statement.<br /><br />"Grain prices are now at levels below last year but still do not permit competitive market production of ethanol as imports remain cheaper than European ethanol," Zoerbig plant director Klaus-Dieter Bettien said.<br /><br />Verbio had only put its second bioethanol plant at Schwedt in east Germany back into production in July following a production suspension since autumn 2007.<br /><br />Schwedt was idled because of high prices for the 600,000 tonnes of grain it consumed each year to produce 200,000 tonnes of bioethanol annually and was returned to operation with sugar as the main feedstock.<br /><br />In July, Verbio said German demand for bioethanol remained weak and that cheap imports, especially from Brazil continued to cover much German demand.<br /><br />Germany raised compulsory blending of bioethanol with fossil gasoline at oil refineries to two percent of energy content in January this year from 1.2 percent previously.<br /><br />But much of the demand for blending was being met by imports.<br /><br /><br />© Thomson Reuters 2008 Captcha: Please Enter Code : * Time Zone: * Select the time zone Vocabularies Newsletter: Domain: Show summary in full view Input format Filtered HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Full HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. news_filter Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. More information about formatting options			Related Articles Germany, with 4,500 plants, demonstrates the viability of ru... German bioethanol consumption jumps by 61% Will the DOE Loan Guarantee Program be chopped by Congress, ... UK biodiesel producer looking to expand capacity German bioethanol demand up four-fold Biofuels Push Britain Toward Wheat Imports Study: Algae could replace 17% of U.S. oil imports Ambassadors dispute EU biofuel policy amendments Biofuel Crops, Solar Panels to Cover 11% of Germany by 2020 German industry recommends policy changes Top BioEnergy Articles

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