In Japan, Kyodo News reports began a one-year trial of biocoke in its coal-fired steam locomotives on Jan. 31 as it aims to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. The biocoked is made from made from buckwheat chaff, wood chips, coffee grounds and other materials and is blended at 40% with coal during the trial. Another […]
In Sweden, Stena RoRo’s tenth E-Flexer series was delivered from the CMI Jinling, Weihai Shipyard. The vessel, named Ala’suinu, will be on a long charter agreement with the Canadian state-owned Marine Atlantic and operate a ferry line in eastern Canada between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The vessels’ engines are of the multi-fuel type and can […]
In Oman, Zawya news agency reports that X2E wants to invest $1.6 billion over the next two years to build up camelina, canola and other cereal crop production irrigated with wastewater to build a supply chain for biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel in the desert. Each piece of the supply chain will count on different […]
In Indonesia, Platts reports domestic trade association APROBI data shows Indonesia’s December biodiesel production rose more than 7% on the month to 1.2 billion liters, bringing total production for the year up 13% to 13.15 billion liters. Even with biodiesel blending at 35% for most of last year, exports jumped nearly 50% in December to […]
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 Iowa, biodiesel production in 2023 kept steady at 350 million gallons, nearly the same as the 349 million gallons produced in 2022. Even in a changing biofuels space with increased soybean crush and renewable diesel production and talk of sustainable aviation fuel, Iowa biodiesel producers were able to maintain their production. Reflecting the expansion […]
In South Korea, The Asset reports that Singapore-headquartered fund manager Hillhouse Investment has purchased South Korean biodiesel maker SK Eco Prime from Hahn & Company. Hahn & Company bought the SK Chemical biodiesel unit less than four years ago for around $340 million and created SK Eco Prime before had purchasing the biodiesel raw material […]
In Belgium, after its success in identifying evidence of fraudulent practices and stopping the suspected re-exporting of Indonesian biodiesel through the Port of Hainan in China, the European Biodiesel Board has moved to the next and most significant phase of its plan to combat the huge volumes of biodiesel imports from China that are causing […]
In the UK, Greenergy announced the successful commissioning of expansion works at two of their biodiesel plants in the UK and in Amsterdam. The works included upgrading the pre-treatment process capability, allowing for a wider range of waste oils as feedstocks to be processed into lower carbon biodiesel that will be used in transport fuels […]
In Uruguay, Medios Publicos reports the government is studying the possibility of increasing the mixture of ethanol in gasoline as well as resuming the use of biodiesel in diesel. Current regulations provide for a mixture of bioethanol in gasoline of at least 8.5%, even through the current blend in reality is closer to 9.8%. Biodiesel […]
