New Technologies Promise Improved Sustainability
By Kurt A. Rosentrater, Ph.D
June 06, 2011
Customized Coproducts Needed as Industry Matures
By Joseph Riley
June 06, 2011
Corn oil extraction creates DDGs variability and new opportunities
Is Color the Only or Best Indicator of DDGS Quality?
By Jerry Shurson
June 06, 2011
Research indicates color correlates with nutritional components and physical characteristics
Multiple Factors Limit DDGS, Even with Attractive Economics
By Harold Tilstra
June 06, 2011
Inclusion rates could be higher in swine, if some common issues were overcome
Making the Most of DDGS
June 06, 2011
Researchers coax more products and income streams from distillers grains
What's notable about Solazyme, is that last week they raised $227 million in its public stock offering, netting more than anticipated by industry analysts.
Private financial support for technology acceleration continues to be important, and certain technologies are becoming clear favorites for investors, according to a recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis.
South Louisiana Ethanol LLC, which has been sitting idle for years, will be sold at bankruptcy auction.
Inhofe makes his move on the RFS
June 02, 2011
Holding true to promises made earlier in the year, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., introduced legislation on May 26 aimed at allowing individual states to opt out of the corn ethanol portion of the renewable fuel standard.
Alltech opened one of the largest algae production facilities in the world in April, and now the company has revived its plans to build the farm of the future. The farm would truly be a closed-loop system, said Alltech's Becky Timmons.
Shell, Cosan announce multi-billion dollar ethanol venture
By Shell
June 02, 2011
Shell and Cosan launched a multi-billion dollar joint venture that will produce sugarcane ethanol. Named RaÃzen, this major retail and commercial fuels company will operate in Brazil.
Nebraska-based Pellet Technology LLC is teaming up with CPM to offer second-generation biofuels producers a solution to the logistical issues surrounding the use of bulky biomass as feedstocks.
Representatives support Open Fuel Standard
By Office of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
June 02, 2011
Reps. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., John Shimkus, R-Ill., Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Steve Israel, D-N.Y., joined interest groups today in expressing support for the Open Fuel Standard (OFS) Act (HR 1687) at a news conference in Washington.
Ashland Hercules Water Technologies, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., now has a back-end corn oil extraction aid it says will help ethanol producers capture up to three times more corn oil while also producing a higher quality oil.
Valero Energy Corp. is a new investor in Enerkem Inc., the company said in a June 1 press release. The Canadian waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company announced it had raised $60 million in financing in its latest equity round.
Coaltion returns to Nation's capital with educational program
By National Corn Growers Assocaition
June 01, 2011
For the third year in a row, Washington, D.C. will learn about the U.S. family farmers who produce corn, the U.S.'s top crop, as part of the Corn Farmers Coalition program that debuts June 1 at Union Station.
The retrofit of the Agri-Energy LLC ethanol plant started on May 31, with a groundbreaking ceremony. The ethanol plant is expected to be converted to full isobutanol production by June 2012.
Two studies examining California's future energy needs are aimed at evaluating methods to reduce the state's overall emissions, but reach differing conclusions regarding ethanol's contribution to a lower-emission environment.
With the calendar turning the page to June, we're pressing full steam ahead here at BBI for the 2011 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo.
Montana Ethanol Holdings LLC is still hopeful it will receive loan guarantee approval for a proposed 115 MMgy barley- and wheat-based ethanol plant in Great Falls, Mont., even though it will not be happening under the DOE's 1705 program.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is expected to sign a bill today, May 26, which will provide a boost to the state's renewable fuels producers and distributors.
Just a few weeks after the USDA announced the first BCAP project area, the U.S. House of Representatives' Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee has voted to eliminate BCAP funding for 2012. The subcommittee also voted to eliminate REAP funding.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based energy crop seed developed Ceres Inc. filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 23 for an initial public offering in hopes of raising up to $100 million to fund the expansion of its business.
Tenaska BioFuels LLC has withdrawn its proposed agreement that would have allowed Levelland Hockley County Ethanol LLC to restart production.
Poet Biorefining-Cloverdale (Ind.) will host a tour following the 2011 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop being held June 27-30 in Indianapolis, Ind.
The U.S. Grains Council has several events lined up for June and July, both overseas and in the U.S.
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