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A new collaboration between automotive supplier Magna and Italy-based intellectual property company Bio-on will see the two companies start R&D activities on the use of bio-plastics for the automotive industry. Bio-on has developed a new bio-plastic through the use of naturally occurring bacteria which feed off the by-products of sugar beets. During the fermentation process, the material is…
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has committed to a $25 million (€18.2 million) equity investment in Rennovia, a privately held company which develops catalysts and processes for the production of renewable feedstock-based chemical products. Speaking about the investment, ADM VP of renewable chemicals Kevin Moore says: 'There is significant and growing demand for chemical products made from…
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A biogas liquefaction plant has opened in Oslo, which will convert household food waste into biomethane for use as renewable fuel for the city's buses. The facility, which was built by gas handling and liquefaction technology developer Wärtsilä and opened on 12 February, is operated by biowaste treatment company Cambi on behalf of Waste-to-Energy Agency (EGE) and the city of Oslo. EGE…
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Energy company Fortum has announced it will invest €40 million in a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant under development by its associated company Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto (TSE). The new plant, planned for Naantali in Finland, will cost a total €260 million and come online in the third quarter of 2017. It initially will be able to handle a combination of biomass, recycled…
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A consortium made up of clean technology company Topell Energy, three electricity companies – Essent, Nuon and GDF Suez – and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has completed a large-scale co-firing test with biomass at the Amer power plant in the Netherlands. The test, conducted under the 'Top consortium for Knowledge and Innovation Bio-based Economy (TKI BBE)…
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The New York Green Bank has started operations and will work to stimulate private sector financing to accelerate the transitions to a more cost-effective, resilient and clean energy system. The NY Green Bank is the largest bank of its kind in nation. Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement, declaring the bank is now seeking proposals from private sector lenders, investors and industry…
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Constellation, a supplier of electricity and natural gas and a subsidiary of Exelon, is to design, build and operate a $130 million (€96 million) renewable energy plant in the US after signing an agreement with the City of Los Angeles. Under the agreement, the 27MW power plant will be located at LA Sanitation's Hyperion treatment plant. Hyperion is among the 10 largest wastewater treatment…
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GreenWood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF) has become the world's first short rotation forest plantation to earn certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB). The RSB certification covers GTFF's cultivation, management and harvesting of coppiced poplar trees, used as biomass feedstock either to be pelletised for direct combustion in biomass electric plants or for the cellulosic…
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Specialty chemicals company Elevance Renewable Sciences has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its second biorefinery located in Natchez, Mississippi to URS. Under the contract, URS' scope of work involves converting Elevance's existing biodiesel plant into a new biorefinery. 'With our presence in Baton Rouge, near the site of the new biorefinery, we are able…
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Empyro has broken ground on its pyrolysis oil production plant in the Netherlands. Once construction is complete, expected for the end of this year, production capacity at the plant will be gradually ramped up to more than 20 million litres of pyrolysis oil per year. This oil is enough to replace 12 million m3 of natural gas, the equivalent annual consumption of 8,000 households. Located at the…
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Russia-based GS Group has announced it will build a new wood pellet plant. To be located in Pskov, the production facility will have an annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes when it comes online towards the end of this year. The investment necessary to bring the project to realisation is currently being reviewed. The new plant is the third phase of a large-scale investment project by GS, set to last…
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Two Scandinavian companies are to merge and form a large-scale wood pellet business, headquartered in Sweden. Nordic energy firm Lantmännen and Scandinavian bioenergy company Neova will combine their respective wood pellet businesses to create a new company that will include Neova's wood pellet business in Sweden and the corresponding Lantmännen Agroenergy buisnesses in Sweden and…
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Global Logix of South Korea is to invest $20 million (€14.6 million) in a new wood pellet production factory and 10,000MW biomass power plant in Siak, Riau province, according to reports. Global Logix and the Siak regional administration signed a memorandum of understanding for the processing of oil palm fruit bunches and kernel shells – an underutilised feedstock in the country. …
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Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, a producer of specialty chemicals from natural oils, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership to jointly develop and scale a new metathesis technology to produce biochemicals from vegetable oils. Under the new partnership, the two companies will jointly develop and scale new…
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