Flint Hills Resources LLC has announced an agreement with Platinum Ethanol to acquire its Arthur, Iowa, ethanol plant. The transaction is expected to close later this year, subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals.
Board chairman John Eggleston's vision of getting projects done dates to the mid-1990s when he first became chairman of Northeast Missouri Grain Processors Inc., the first group to propose a corn ethanol plant in the state.
The Vivergo Fuels Ltd. wheat-to-ethanol plant in Hull, United Kingdom, is officially open and operating. The 420 MMlly (110 MMgy) facility, built for more than $448 million, is a joint venture between AB Sugar, BP and DuPont Industrial Biosciences.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., recently introduced legislation that aims to reinstate and extend the additional duty on ethanol. The bill, H.R. 2564, was introduced June 27 and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Carbo Analytics, a developer of sugar analysis systems, has announced that it has been awarded a $150,000 U.S. DOE grant under the Small Business Innovation Research program for the development of a biofuels sugar analysis system.
The 2013 National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo, taking place September 10-12, 2013, in Omaha, Neb., announced its preliminary agenda this week. The event features three program tracks and nearly 70 advanced biofuel presentations.
South Dakota is making $500,000 available to support the installation of blender pumps. The Governor's Office of Economic Development has announced the state's Ethanol Infrastructure Incentive Program has kicked off its third round of funding.
ICM Inc. announced July 8 that that it has signed a contract with INPASA for sale of an evaporator and dryer system at its plant in Nueva Esperanza, Paraguay.
Ricardo Inc. President, Thomas Apostolos, told attendees at the Ethanol Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that Ricardo's extreme boosted direct injection engine has the potential to deliver best-in-class efficiency for ethanol combustion.
Poet LLC has hired Rob Walther as director of federal affairs, tasked with opening a Poet office in Washington, D.C. Walther will represent Poet and highlight the value of domestic, renewable biofuel.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration published fuel ethanol production and use statistics for the first quarter of 2013. According to the report, production increased significantly in March, reaching more than 1.09 billion gallons.
The Minnesota Corn Growers Association is sponsoring the Jam the Stands stock car racing events again in 2013. The promotion was such a success last year, MCGA has expanded it to include nine racing tracks within Minnesota.
The International Energy Agency has released its second annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report, predicting that world biofuel production will increase from 1.86 million barrels per day in 2012, to 2.36 million barrels per day in 2018.
What does an aspiring country music star and her new music video have to do with ethanol? Watch and you'll see.
Officials at Iowa Speedway have announced that Syngenta and its Enogen brand seed corn will be the presenting sponsor for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at the Newton track on July 13.
The U.S. EPA has published renewable identification number (RIN) generation data for May. More than 34.23 million D5 advanced biofuel, 211.93 million D4 biomass-based diesel and 1.16 billion D6 renewable fuel RINs were generated in May.
Abengoa has inaugurated its demonstration plant that uses Waste-to-Biofuels (W2B) technology. The plant has a capacity to treat 25,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) from which it will obtain up to 1.5 million liters of bioethanol.
Woodland Biofuels received word on June 26 that it will receive up to $800,000 in funding from in Federal Economic Development funding from the Canadian Government. The money will be used to optimize its demonstration plant in Sarnia, Ontario.
The weakening of the Brazilian real versus the U.S. dollar affects the attractiveness of ethanol in relation to sugar, lowering the level of the world sugar price to a point at which millers begin favoring ethanol over sugar production.
Keeping an ethanol plant in compliance with environmental rules and regulations isn't just a one-person job.
Industry representatives from 26 countries met in St. Louis, June 10-13, for the world's largest and longest- running ethanol conference.
Austin Dillon shares his earliest memories of a life spent in motorsports, his love of dirt track racing and the role ethanol plays in NASCAR's sustainability push.
Six blender fuel pumps are featured at a new gas station in Velva, N.D. The Farmer's Union Oil Co. convenience store was financed with more than $3 million in loans and grants, including a grant of $159,000 from the Rural America for Energy Program.
Independent producers will require new strategies to stay viable.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not take up the petroleum industry's E15 appeal, which was filed by the American Petroleum Institute, Grocery Manufacturers Association and a consortium of other organizations in February.
A representative of Pella, Iowa-based Vermeer Corp. advocated for a more open, transparent trade relations with Brazil during a recent U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing.
Enerkem Inc., a waste-to-biofuels and renewable chemicals company, has announced the closing of a $50 million financing, which brings total equity investment raised by Enerkem in 2013 to $87 million.
The National Council of Chain Restaurants has launched a new campaign to repeal the renewable fuels standard (RFS). Representatives of the ethanol industry have been quick to criticize the action and dispute NCCR's claims.
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