The 2000s-era wonder crop went quiet as “plant anything, anywhere” gave way to the “develop genetics, boost yield” movement, led by SGB. Today, SGB moves forward again with new financing. In California, SGB announced an $11 million Series C financing to drive commercial rollout, after reducing the time to maturity from 5 years to 1-2 […]
In Washington, an unidentified company is negotiating with the US Office of Foreign Assets Control to get permission for imports of ethanol produced by Kenana Sugar in Sudan. Sudan has been on a list of banned countries since 1997 due to alleged links with terrorists. Eighteen US companies have already been granted such permission to […]
In Sudan, Kenana, already Sudan’s largest sugar producer, will nearly triple its ethanol output in the next two years to reach 1 million tonnes and plans to make a stock market offering in South Africa. The company expects to receive $500M this year from primary shareholders to cover the expansion, as well as an additional […]
In Sudan, Kenana has teamed with Nile Petroleum to establish an E10 blending program with pump sales starting on Sunday. The new blend will be marketed as Nileultra. Kenana has ethanol production capacity of 65 million liters per year and has been so far exporting ethanol to Europe as there has been no domestic market […]
In Sudan, Saudi Arabian company Tala has teamed with Canada’s Nova Global on a $650 million sugarcane project that will produce sugar and ethanol in Sinnar state, as well as a jatropha project that will supply oil to Middle Eastern airlines. The project will encompass about 156,000 acres.
In Sudan, the Ministry of Industry expressed its full support of the sugar refinery planned by Kenana and Italian company, Aradanie, in Port Sudan. The Minister of Industry believes the refinery will allow the country to produce 10 million tons of sugar per year, allowing it to meet local demand and export surplus by 2014. […]
In Sudan, Kenana Sugar will freeze its ethanol production in August until the harvest starts in November due to low prices thanks to falling EU demand. A result of that demand drop, the company currently has 15 million liters of stock on hand.
In Sudan, government plans for a $1b plant will hopefully help the country attain its goal of increasing sugar production to 450,000 tones annually. The country is attempting to cut down food imports and to increase sugar exports. The plant, whose largest shareholder is Kenana Sugar Co., will have an initial output of 150,000 tones, […]
In Sudan, White Nile Sugar has assigned its construction contracts for two ethanol projects to China CAMC Engineering. The plants are expected to commence production in April 2012 using sugar cane as a feedstock. The project will also produce animal feed, and will have a capacity of 12.2 million gallons per year of ethanol and […]
In Brazil, the Sudanese Kenana Sugar Company signed two deals with the Brazilian company Dedini to provide machinery and equipment to double the size of Kenana’s sugarcane ethanol plant in Sudan and to set up a new biodiesel operation. The deals were worth up to $500 million and were partially financed using Brazilian credit. The […]
