In India, Arunachal Pradesh has signed an agreement with the Numaligarh Refinery (NRL) in Assam to develop a bamboo-based second-generation ethanol facility. The plant will use 300,000 metric tons of bamboo annually, supplementing current demand by the state’s paper and furniture manufacturing that only use about 10% of the state’s resources. To support job development […]
In India, Chemopolis is preparing to have its first biorefinery in the country online in the next three years after signing with its local JV partner. The bamboo-based facility will be located in Assam, producing 49,000 metric tons of ethanol annually for supply to the country’s Eastern and Northeastern markets that are not so easily […]
In India, government-owned Numaligarh Refinery Limited has teamed with Chemopolis to set up an ethanol plant that will use bamboo as feedstock. In order to source the required bamboo, NRL has just signed an MOU with Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency for supply of 200,000 metric tons of semi-processed bamboo annually. The deal is expected to […]
In Finland, Chempolis and Numaligarh Refinery Limited have signed an MOU to jointly study to build a biorefinery in Northeastern Indian (Assam) to produce ethanol from bamboo with furfural and acetic acid produced as co-products. The announcement comes almost a year after Chempolis signed an MOU with ONGC, India’s leading oil & gas exploration company. […]
In Alabama, Former First Lady Marsha Folsom highlighted the potential of bamboo as a crop for Alabama during a Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce event. Her company, Resource Fiber, plans to make the Asian plant the state’s new cash crop, The company recently started its 100-acre nursery to test plant bamboo and plans to open […]
Just about anything important these days in biofuels starts with an F — though whether your current favorite F-word is feedstock, finance, feasibility, or FUBAR will depend a great deal on where your favorite flavor of technology finds itself on its path to scale. It all starts with feedstock, of course — and there’s nothing […]
In New Jersey, a student is creating a biobutanol out of bamboo at Princeton University. While the process is far from being commercially viable, Amanda Rees was able to treat bamboo sawdust acid with enzymes to produce a small amount of fuel. Rees has hopes for the project, as bamboo’s resilience and status as inedible […]
In Ghana, a partnership between African countries and communities, the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and China, funded by the European Union (EU) and the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), is working to replace forest wood with bamboo charcoal and firewood. Currently, 80 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa depend on […]
In Nigeria, soccer star William Troost-Ekong sported biobased cleats in the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations. Made by the United Kingdom’s Sokito, the match against Equatorial Guinea was the first time vegan cleats made from corn waste, sugarcane and bamboo have been worn in international competition. Dubbed Scudetta, the cleats will be […]
In The Netherlands, Built by Nature, a network and grant-making fund, has announced a global prize totaling $542,000 to recognize innovation and stimulate scalability in the use of biobased materials such as timber, bamboo, hemp, straw, algae, and fungi in construction. The built environment generates up to 40% of the world’s greenhouse gases, and the […]
