Valmet, a leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries based in Espoo, Finland, has invested in a new pilot facility at its Fiber Technology Center in Sundsvall to strengthen the company’s research and development capabilities related to bioenergy, biofuels, and biochemicals. The new pilot facility […]

India’s state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) plans to commission a second-generation (2G) ethanol biorefinery at Odisha’s Bargarh district at the end of 2020. Investment in the project is estimated to cost INR 10 billion (USD135 million). The foundation stone for the refinery will be laid on October 10 by Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal and […]

Sweetwater Energy, a Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A.-based biotechnology company and Estonia-based AS Graanul Invest, Europe’s largest wood pellet producer, will build a commercial-scale integrated biorefinery that will produce clean cellulosic sugars and highly pure lignin from 50,000 tons of local hardwood each year. In addition, the plant will allow the two companies to work with corporate […]

DowDuPont announced that it plans to sell its cellulosic biofuels business, including its USD225 million cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa, U.S.A. The plant has already shuttered plant operations and a skeleton crew is maintaining the plant until a buyer is found. The 30 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa which opened in […]

Italy’s Eni will spend EUR21 billion (USD24.70 billion) in the next four years to breathe new life into existing assets with a low-carbon focus. Early this week, Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, accompanied by Eni Chairman Emma Marcegaglia and Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, visited Eni’s biorefinery in Venice, the world’s first example of the conversion […]

Velocys’ first U.S. biorefinery will be located in Natchez, Adams County, Miss., the company announced. Velocys has been offered an attractive package of economic development incentives to locate the plant at this advantaged site. Velocys has been offered economic development incentives from Adams County estimated to be worth the equivalent of USD42 million. The project […]

SynSel Energy, Inc. of Elmhurst, Ill., is partnering with a U.S.-based financier and local stakeholders across the U.S. to develop a network of 100 biorefineries in shuttered industrial sites. SynSel is a developer, technology integrator, and owner/operator of biorefineries in the U.S.A. and Canada. The plants will be constructed on a proprietary template, using state-of-the-art, […]

Amyris, Inc., based in Emeryville, Calif., U.S.A., and the Government of Queensland, Australia announced their plans to develop a leading industrial biotechnology hub in Southeast Asia. Plans call for developing a new production plant with support from local partners to produce Amyris’s sugar cane-based ingredient called farnesene, which is used in products including cosmetic emollients, […]

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. celebrated the formal opening of the newest addition to its fleet of biorefineries on April 26, with a ribbon cutting at REG Madison. REG officials were joined by state and local business, government and community leaders for the ceremony recognising the transition to REG’s ownership of the 20-million gallon per year […]

Three POET biorefineries will expand ethanol production capacity by a combined total of 25 million gallons in 2016, the company announced. POET Biorefining in Hanlontown, Iowa, POET Biorefining in Hudson, S.D., and POET Biorefining in Caro, Mich., each filed separate expansion permits within their respective states and will soon be producing at the level their […]