In Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports Department of Agriculture data showed that biodiesel demand drove tallow exports to above A$1 billion ($652 million ) for the first time in 2022/23. Of the 550,000 metric tons of tallow produced in 2022/23, 450,000 tons were exported. Australia has been exporting tallow for more than a century, […]
In India, Aemetis, Inc. announced that the Universal Biofuels subsidiary of Aemetis in Kakinada, India has agreed to acquire a site to construct a tallow oil refining facility. The refining facility is designed to supply feedstock to the existing Aemetis 50 million gallon per year biodiesel plant located on the East Coast of India and […]
In New Zealand, Stuff reports that Z Energy has mothballed its biodiesel facility but that it may reopen again next year depending on market conditions. A bidding war on animal tallow made biodiesel production uneconomical but the company is looking to reduce its cost of production by doubling the installed capacity of the facility if […]
In the UK, ICIS reports that increased demand for biodiesel in Europe is seen pressuring tallow supplies which is expected to increase prices, potentially to the point of making them unviable as feedstock. In the meantime, as European countries look towards advanced biofuels and the use of waste feedstocks as they move away from crop-based […]
In the UK, ICIS reports that a growing shortage in Europe of fatty acids usually produced from tallow has the market looking to source palm oil as feedstock instead. With tallow-based biodiesel production increasing thanks to policies that allow for “double counting” against European biofuel blending mandates when waste feedstocks are used, the tallow market […]
In New Zealand, Fonterra is now using tallow-based biodiesel produced by Z Energy in 150 of its milk tankers in an effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of its products. Although there is a small premium paid for the biodiesel versus fossil diesel, the dairy cooperative was one of the biofuel producer’s foundation clients […]
In Florida, Darling Ingredients Inc. has acquired the assets of Tallowmasters, LLC, a family owned rendering and recycling company with headquarters in Medley, Florida and processing operations in Miami, Florida. Irving, Texas-based Darling Ingredients provides a global growth platform for the development and production of sustainable natural ingredients. Tallowmasters was advised in the transaction by […]
In New Zealand, Z Energy’s NZ$26 million tallow biodiesel plant is ready to begin commissioning early in the new year, at first producing 20 million liters annually but scalable to 40 million liters. Already the company is retailing B5 blends at its gas stations around the country, and the biodiesel from the new facility will […]
In Australia, Singapore is bouncing back as a key demand center for inedible tallow exports for use in biodiesel production. Policy changes in the US dropped demand for Australian tallow imports as the focus was more on domestic feedstocks, so even though exports haven’t recovered to mid-2014 levels of 300,000 metric tons annually, Singapore is […]
In New Zealand, Z Energy has started construction on its 20 million liter green tallow-to-biodiesel plant in South Auckland. The fuel that has been developing in a University of Auckland lab has more than 90% GHG savings compared to fossil diesel and will be blended at 5%. The company expects to have the fuel available […]
