Posts Tagged ‘biorefinery’
2 February 2012
Finnish bioenergy company UPM is set to construct a €150m biorefinery that utilises wood-derived tall oil in Lappeenranta, south-east Finland.
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6 January 2012
US biorefinery developer ZeaChem has opened a new facility in Oregon that produces bio-based chemicals for applications such as paints, lacquers and solvents.
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4 January 2012
US utility Great River Energy has acquired full ownership of the Blue Flint Ethanol biorefinery in Underwood, North Dakota, from partner Headwaters for $18.5m.
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19 December 2011
Refining specialist Neste Oil has opened Europe’s largest renewable diesel facility in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, today.
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25 October 2011
Biorefinery developer ZeaChem has raised $19m in Series C financing and appointed two new independent board members.
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25 October 2011
US bioenergy developer Algenol Biofuels has commenced construction of a pilot-scale refinery that will produce ethanol through the use of blue-green algae, carbon dioxide, sunlight and saltwater in Lee County, Florida.
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2 June 2011
ZeaChem, a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals, has executed an agreement with Proctor & Gamble for multi-year joint development of ZeaChem’s product platform.
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16 May 2011
The world’s largest cereal grain refinery, which is located in the north-east of the UK, is to temporarily close its doors, NewNet has learnt.
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24 January 2011
Biorefining technology developer Chempolis and Henan Yinge Industrial Investment have partnered to construct a biorefinery in Henan province, China through a new joint venture company.
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22 December 2010
Elevance Renewable Sciences, which produces specialty chemicals for the fuel market from renewable feedstocks, has raised $100m to fund its growth in Asia and American markets.
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26 May 2010
Finnish biorefinery company Chempolis will deliver three biorefineries to China under a €60m licence, engineering, procurement and commissioning agreement it has signed with Tianjin Jiuqian Paper in China.
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18 May 2010
Biofuel company Chempolis has brought a third-generation cellulosic ethanol biorefinery online for processing non-food biomass in Oulu in north Finland.
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26 February 2010
US bioenergy company ClearFuels Technology and timber company Hughes Hardwood International have agreed to develop a commercial-scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel.
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17 February 2010
Biomass biorefinery developer ZeaChem has produced bio-based acetic acid, which the company said is the building block for cellulosic ethanol and bio-based chemicals, at the purity concentration level of a saleable product.
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2 February 2010
US-based biorefinery developer ZeaChem has announced its first acetic acid fermentation results, which the company said demonstrate successful process scaling to a level that is 10,000 times greater than standard lab scale.
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8 December 2009
Renewable biochemical manufacturer Myriant Technologies has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to receive up to $50m for its planned biobased succinic acid facility in Louisiana.
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12 August 2009
Bioenergy company Chemrec's pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project is to break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden, with expected biofuel production by mid-2010.
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30 June 2009
The Dow Chemical Company is to work with bioenergy company Algenol Biofuels, Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will convert CO2 into ethanol. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's Freeport, Texas site.
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9 January 2009
BIOPOLYGEN Group of the Mediterranean Energy and Ecology Center has completed the initial phase of testing its one-stage process, expected to hydrolyse the agriculture and forestry residues, energy crops and other lingo-cellulosic materials with the use of the inorganic catalyst, according to a statement.
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23 October 2008
UK biorefinery business Ensus, a portfolio company of private equity firms The Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, is to begin production at its first biorefinery facility in 2009.
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