Dunafoldvar, Hungary, reminds John Handel of certain areas in the Midwest. “There are expanses of really nice agricultural land,” the project manager of Fagen Europe LLC tells EPM. “It is pretty well suited for corn production.” Besides that, like many other areas of the United States and the world, Hungary needs jobs and economic activity.

Brazil revised the way biodiesel is sold in the country after regulators found indications that producers colluded to keep prices high. Fuel distributors will now negotiate contracts directly with producers in government-organized auctions, Marco Antonio Martins Almeida, secretary of petroleum, natural gas and biofuels at the Ministry of Mines...

GILBERT, Ariz. - Heliae, an Arizona-based algae technology company, broke ground today on a commercial demonstration facility that will showcase the scalability and economics of its proprietary algae technology platform. "Over the last two years, we have made significant strides in research and deve...

When Americans for Prosperity held a rally in Iowa last week, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association called on AFP to set the record straight and get the correct facts out when it comes to ethanol and oil policy. “AFP’s energy policy should come with a whiplash warning,” stated IRFA Executive Director Monte Shaw. “They st...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Nature published a paper that discusses the recent advances in biocatalysis, and the impact it is having on the commercial development of biofuels, renewable chemicals, and pharmaceutical products.

In Louisiana, Agri Process Innovations has announced the startup of Oswalt Bioenergy of Lake Providence, Agri’s twenty second biodiesel plant opening. Chemical engineer Brian Mattingly led the startup for the Louisiana company. Mattingly said that this startup, which was completed in only seven days, went smoothly, largely due to good p...

Honeywell has announced a deal to license it’s technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at its facility in Louisiana. Emerald will use Honeywell’s UOP / Eni Ecofining process technology to produce an estimated 85 million gallons per year of green diesel using non-edible second-generation oils and anima...

VANCOUVER - Lignol Energy Corporation a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, announced that it has become a member of the Oak Ridge Carbon Fiber Composites Consortium. The Consortium is composed of some 40 organizations with a common interest in the development and commercial deployment of new ca...

Edwardsville, IL - Researchers at The NCERC announced that they have successfully produced ethanol from the cellulosic portion of the corn kernel. “This research is demonstrated proof of the viability of ‘generation 2.0 ethanol,’” NCERC Director John Caupert said. “By utiliz...

Neste Oil has again expanded the range of renewable raw materials it uses by beginning to produce NExBTL renewable diesel from waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry at its Singapore refinery. The fat in question comes from the gutting waste generated...

A study by a team of university and government scientists led by a Kansas State University researcher, indicates that genes responsible for seed shattering - the process by which grasses disseminate their seeds - were under parallel selection during sorghum, rice and maize domestication.

A Singapore partnership has developed what it hopes to be an eco-solution to the world's demand for biofuel. The world's first genetically modified Jatropha plant can produce biodiesel faster and better. Plans are in the pipeline to start field trials and commercialise it in three years. With genetic modification,...

In the search for technology by which economically competitive biofuels can be produced from cellulosic biomass, the combination of sugar-fermenting microbes and ionic liquid solvents looks to be a winner save for one major problem: the ionic liquids used to make cellulosic biomass more digestible for microbes can also be toxic to them.

Arranging DNA fragments into a genome sequence that scientists can interpret is a challenge often compared to assembling a puzzle, except there is no box to provide an idea of what the picture is even supposed to be. Sometimes there's guidance in the form of other publicly-available DNA sequences from r...

ST. LOUIS, MO - Arranging DNA fragments into a genome sequence that scientists can interpret is a challenge often compared to assembling a puzzle except you don’t have the box and have no idea what the picture is supposed to be. Sometimes clues from other publicly-available DNA sequences of relate...

In Canada, The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology announced that a total of 60 innovative partnerships between colleges and businesses will be provided more than $36 million over a period of up to five years through the College and Community In...