Posts Tagged ‘ethanol’
2 May 2013
Sudan’s biggest sugar producer Kenana will look to raise $200m in an initial public offering in South Africa next year.
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19 April 2013
The US ethanol lobby has asked Washington to put the brakes on government biofuel targets in an acknowledgement of a widening gap between policy goals and reality at petrol stations.
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18 April 2013
Brazilian cellulosic-ethanol maker GranBio Investimentos has taken a minority in American Process, a technology developer, and will go on to use its equipment to process sugar-cane into chemicals.
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16 April 2013
The initial public offering of Louis Dreyfus’ Brazilian ethanol unit Biosev has taken place, raising BRL805m ($402.5m) for expansion and to pay off debt.
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8 April 2013
The US Department of Agriculture is to offer funds totalling $20.8m to help gasoline retailers install blender pumps designed to give consumers flexibility and choice in the ethanol blends they use.
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2 April 2013
Pacific Ethanol, a US-based producer of low-carbon renewable fuels, has closed the first tranche of a financing package that aims to reduce plant debt and increase ownership.
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27 March 2013
Global commodities giant Louis Dreyfus has set unusual terms for the initial public offering of its ethanol unit Biosev in a listing it hopes will raise $470m.
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19 March 2013
Jindal Steel and Power, the Indian steel producer, is partnering with New Zealand-based renewables company Lanzatech to develop an alternative ethanol production technology.
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13 March 2013
Tata Power is looking for partners to pursue opportunities in fuel cell technologies as it attempts to strengthen its presence in the clean energy space.
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13 March 2013
Biofuels specialist ZeaChem has begun production of commercial-grade cellulosic chemicals and ethanol at its 250,000 gallons per year biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon.
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13 March 2013
Chromatin, a developer of crop breeding technology, said has entered into an agreement with ethanol giant Poet, to use sorghum grown in South Dakota in the production of biofuels.
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12 March 2013
Huge price increases in the biofuels market are threatening to increase US petrol prices and cause localised shortages in regions affected by superstorm Sandy.
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11 March 2013
Brazil’s ethanol industry is set to cut taxes this month as the government intends to throw a lifeline to the biofuel’s struggling producers and curb inflation.
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8 March 2013
Cosan, Brazil’s largest sugar and ethanol company in terms of revenue, is tapping the international debt market in order to repay existing debts generated by the acquisition of Comgas.
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25 February 2013
Biosev, the Brazilian ethanol unit of French commodities trader Louis Dreyfus, has reportedly resurrected its initial public offering plans.
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22 January 2013
Development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social is to invest BRL600m($294m) into Brazilian cellulosic-ethanol maker GraalBio.
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17 January 2013
US cellulosic sugar producer Sweetwater Energy has signed a 15-year commercial agreement worth $100m with Front Range Energy.
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16 January 2013
US biofuel company Pacific Ethanol has purchased $21.54m of secured term debt of its production plants and renegotiated other debts.
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14 January 2013
Renewable energy start-up BioGasol, which is backed by a Danish pension fund, has sold its first Carbofrac pretreatment reactor to Sweetwater Energy.
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11 January 2013
Eco-Energy has received a $25m equity injection on the back of its merger with Copersucar, which was first announced in November 2012.
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