Sep 22 2016
Bill Gates invests in biofuel specialist Renmatix business.conbio.info/2016-09-22/ Business magnate and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has joined French oil giant Total in investing $14 million (€12.4m) in US biofuel specialist Renmatix. The company has developed a process that converts plant waste and biomass into sugars that can be converted into biofuels and bio versions of […]
Sep 22 2016
Borregaard investes 6,9 million Euro in Bioethanol upgrade business.conbio.info/2016-09-22/ Borregaard has decided to invest NOK 63 million (€ 6,9 million) in a project which includes an upgrade of the bioethanol plant and a facility to capture and store biogas. Borregaard produces ethanol from wood in an integrated plant producing a variety of biochemical. The main plant […]
Sep 22 2016
German Pellets two US pellet plants, combined capacity 1 million ton are for sale. business.conbio.info/2016-09-22/ The two bankrupted German Pellets US pellet plants are now for sale. Their combined capacity is 1 million ton. Both are operating and producing pellets reports Argus Biomass market. In Urania, Louisiana, the Lousiana Pellets have in the summer restarted production […]
Sep 21 2016
Earlier German pellets major sales company Firestixx activities are since summer organised in a new company. business.conbio.info/2016-09-20/ The German Pellets daughter FireStixx Holz-Energie GmbH, with one of the most famous brands in the pellets business in central Europe, is since July 27 2016 now organised in a new company FireStixx GmbH & Co KG, based […]
Sep 20 2016
European market for industrial pellets has remained stable. Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 27.27 + 0.20 26.05 ‐ 28.49 SEK/MWh […]
Sep 14 2016
Valmet to supply biofuel boiler including environmental systems to Sobacken energy and environmental plant for Borås Energi och Miljö in Sweden The order value for Valmet is €60 million. This order was the final main order for the the big €350 new Sobacken integrated energy and environmental center outside Borås, Sweden. A project that will support the strategy of the city […]
Sep 8 2016
Neste and IKEA announce partnership for bio-based plastics invites further partners /www.conbio.info/2016-09-08/ The two Scandinavian companies aim to produce plastics and other materials that are used today, but instead replacing virgin fossil feedstock with renewable or recycled waste and residue raw materials. The partnership combines IKEA’s commitment to reduce their depence on virgin fossil based materials and Neste’s […]
Sep 7 2016
Valmet to supply biomass-fired heat and power boiler, storage and conveyor systems to HOFOR CHP plant in Denmark business.conbio.info/2016-09-07/ Valmet and HOFOR Energiproduktion A/S have signed a contract regarding delivery of a biomass-fired boiler plant and related biofuel storage and conveyor systems to HOFOR’s Amagerværket heat and power plant in Copenhagen. The new power plant will […]
Sep 6 2016
Photo: Barbara J. Bramble heads the International Climate and Energy Program at the National Wildlife Federation. She has the chair of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials. RSB EU RED Re-Recognized by the European Commission Geneva, 6 September 2016 – RSB is pleased to announce its re-recognition by the European Commission. The decision was published by the Commission […]
Sep 1 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-09-01/ Malaysia and Indonesia plan to appoint an “Ambassador of Palm Oil” to promote the benefits of consuming palm oil products in the international market, reports Malaysia journal Daily Express. Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong, said anti-palm oil lobbying group has given a lot of misrepresentations about the edible vegetable […]
Aug 31 2016
Business.conbio.info/2016-08-31/ Food ingredient producer DuPont Nutrition & Health will soon be able to burn wood chips in the old coal boiler at its factory in Grindsted, Denmark. This will be the outcome of a conversion project delivered by B&W Vølund. It will mean not only cleaner energy but also a considerable amount of excess heat […]
Aug 30 2016
/inbio.biz/Lennart ljungblom/2016-08-30/ The steam exploded pellets, branded black pellets, are produced in Selma Alabama and shipped from Mobile to Port of Rouen and transported by train to the coal power plant Saint-Ouen in the north of Paris. In Paris will the main district heating operator, CPCU replace half of the coal for the production of heat and power. In spring the company inaugurated […]
Aug 30 2016
/business.conbio.info/2016-08-30/ The Portuguese municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicao announced on Friday its 14.75-MW forest biomass plant should be operational in 2017 report See News. The EUR-30-million (USD 33.5m) plant, which is already under construction, is expected to be up and running by February of next year, the owner of the plant Avelino Reis said. Around […]
Aug 25 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-25/ US ethanol producer Green Plains Inc. was the successful bidder on three US ethanol plants for sale by Abengoa Bioenergy conducted under the provisions of the US Bankruptcy Code. The three plants are the Madison, Illinois, Mount Vernon, Indiana and York, Nebraska, with combined annual production capacity of 236 million gallons per year, for approximately […]
Aug 24 2016
Imavere mill receives SBP certificate business.conbio.info/2016-08-24/ Imavare Mill has received SBP – Sustainable Biomass Partnership certificate for its pellet production. The first Stora Enso mill that was granted the SBP certificate was Näpi mill in July 2016, and also Nebolchi mill is currently finalising its certification. SBP certification is a tool, which has been developed for the biomass energy […]
Aug 24 2016
According to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association and reported by Biofuels Digest, US ethanol production averaged 1.029 million barrels per day, or 163 million liter daily (43.22 million gallons). That is up 11,000 b/d from the week before and tied for the largest total on record. The four-week average for ethanol production […]
Aug 18 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08–18/ Spain’s energy giant Abengoa, struggling under a billions-strong debt pile, announced August 11 it had reached a deal with creditors and investors allowing it to ward off bankruptcy. The restructuring, includ a debt-for-equity swap for creditors. At the end of the restructuring process, the current shareholders in the company would hold around 5 per […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ Wismar Pellets reports rising business. The company, owned by Metropolitan Equity Partners (MEP), owns and operates the bankcrupted German Pellets GmbH pellet production plant in Wismar. The company has according to a story reported by the radio channel NDR regained customers and suppliers. The wood supply is also working smoothly. The wood used come mainly from the Baltic States. […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ Japan’s general trading companies are expanding supplies of fuel from biomass like wood chips, pellets etc. for power plants to meet an expected surge in demand from facilities set to start up in 2017 and 2018, a development encouraged by the country’s feed-in-tariff system reports Nikkei Asian review. Sojitz will begin production as early as […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ The price of wood pellets remains also in August on the stable low summer level. According to the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association e.V. (DEPV) pellets in Germany cost on average 222.54 EUR per tonne. This is 0.1 percent less than last month and 4 percent less than in August 2015. One kilogram of pellets costs […]
Aug 16 2016
Business.conbio.info /2016-08-16 The founding family of the bankrupt wood pellet producer German Pellets is back in business. Kathrin Wiedmar, daughter of the founder Peter Leibold is announced to become the majour share holder of the pellet production and trading company Pellex Bioenergie AG, located in Hamburg, with a pellets production in Sachenburg, Austria. Pellex Bioenergie AG […]
Aug 15 2016
Business.conbio,info /2016-08-15 The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) is a large wood basket but a combination of market change and government regulation creates problem for pellet production. This is a bit of a surprise though the province is otherwise eager to promote its growing pellets industry and has e.g. for export purposes made great […]
Aug 7 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-07/ The Wood Pellet Industry in the United States now includes a new producer, Colombo Energy, owned by the Portuguese Navigator company, earlier known as Portucel Soporcel Group. With a global investment of estimated $110 million USD it will produce 460,000 tons per year of pellets and create 70 new jobs. BRUKS was selected as […]
Aug 5 2016
business.conbio.info/Lennart Ljungblom/2016-08-05 Nissan Motor revealed on Thursday the world’s first Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC)-powered prototype vehicle in Brazil that runs on bio-ethanol electric power, a biofuels powered electric car with 600 km range. The fuel cell prototype forms part of Nissan’s on-going commitment to the development of zero-emission vehicles. Nissan already sells the world’s highest-volume […]
Aug 4 2016
Abengoa hires Ocean Park Advisors to find buyer for Kansas plant Bankrupt Spanish bioenergy company Abengoa’s US unit has hired Ocean Park Advisors to find a buyer or investor for its cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kansas. The Hugoton plant produced ethanol from plant fibres and was supposed to be a technological advance over producing […]
Aug 2 2016
Biomass generate 70 percent of Drax total power providing 20 percent of UK total business.conbio.info/Lennart Ljungblom/2016-08-02 The UK huge power group Drax reported July 26 in their half year financial report a large increase in pellet used for power generation, up from 36 percent in 2015 to 70 percent. However the company also reported EBITA for […]
Jul 31 2016
New database for North American power plants and pellet mills business.conbio.info/2016-07-31 Working with Ecostrat and other partners, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has developed this comprehensive database of wood to energy conversion facilitates in the United States and Canada. It covers power plants as well as wood pellet mills. Originally developed and hosted by the […]
Jul 31 2016
UPM and BEE into agreement on renewable energy supply to UPM Hürth mill business.conbio.info/Lennart Ljungblom/2016-07-31 UPM has entered into a conditional agreement with Blue Energy Europe (BEE) for the supply of heat for its Hürth mill in the Cologne area in Germany. The deal is expected to be finalised during the first half of 2017 at […]
Jul 31 2016
The prices for globally traded hardwood chips fell to a record low in May 2016, while softwood chip prices reached the highest level in seven months, according to the latest FOEX Chip Price Indexes Global trade of hardwood chips have trended upward for six years and totaled almost 24 million tons in 2015. By far, the two largest […]
Jul 29 2016
Renewable products continued to deliver strong profits reports Finnish Neste in it´s Q2 2016 report. business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom /2016-07-29 “Neste’s strong performance continued as we were able to improve our result by successful own actions, which were reflected in high additional margins. The reference margin in Oil Products was below last year’s level, but almost […]
Jul 8 2016
Stable price in Euro – increasing price in SEK according to FOEX Pellet Nordic CIF index by June. EUR/MWh 28.72 (‐ 0.11 ) Confidence interval: 27.84 ‐ 29.60 SEK/MWh 266.95 + 1.63 Foex reports that the Baltic pellet industry is expanding. The Swedish owned (Lifco group) Estonian Pellet plant and saw mill supplier Hekotek has […]
Jul 6 2016
business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom/2016-07-05 / German Pellets update – another plant sold – production will continue PLT Pellet Lohnfertigung Torgau GmbH is the new owner of the assets of German Pellets Sachsen GmbH in Torgau. The production will be restarted immediately according to the new owner. The administrator of the insolvency procecess Bettina Schmudde from Kanzlei […]
Jun 21 2016
Coconut waste biomass can now be used for renewable power business.conbio.info /2016-06-21/Lennart Ljungblom June 21, 2016 Mahachai Green Power Co., Ltd,. and DP CleanTech Group Ltd are proud to announce the completion of the first High Temperature High Pressure Biomass power plant which is specifically designed for the simultaneous combustion of all forms of coconut waste […]
Jun 9 2016
Stora Enso increases its fluff pulp capacity at Skutskär Mill in Sweden business.conbio.info/2016-06-09 / Lennart Ljungblom Stora Enso will invest EUR 26.5 million in Skutskär pulp mill to increase its fluff capacity to meet the growing demand in the hygiene market. The investment will enhance Skutskär Mill’s profitability and long-term competitiveness by increasing fluff production […]
Jun 9 2016
Graanul Invest buys Genk-Langerlo power plant in Belgium business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom / 2016-06-09 / Estonian headquartered fast growing pellets and energy producer AS Graanul Invest has overtaken the Belgian power plant Langerlo NV in Genk, Flandern from Peter Leibold, owner of the now insolvent pellet group German Pellets. Peter Leibold bought the plant as late […]
Jun 1 2016
UK Green Investment Bank plc and Equitix commit £25m to Wrexham green energy plant The facility will generate enough electricity annually to power 2,400 homes The plant will reduce the equivalent amount of greenhouse gas emitted by 2,800 cars Wrexham set for new £25m green energy combined heat and power (CHP) plant business.conbio.info /2016-06-01 / […]
May 18 2016
novator/business.conbio.info /2016-05-18/ Lennart Ljungblom / Stora Enso invests for strategic growth in consumer packaging boards Stora Enso is investing EUR 70 million in Imatra Mills, Finland to increase capacity for producing extrusion coated products. The company will invest a total of approximately EUR 70 million in a new polyethylene (PE) extrusion coating plant and an automated roll warehouse […]
May 17 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-05-17 / Lennart Ljungblom Insolvency proceedings opened on 1 May 2016 Metropolitan Equity Partners Management acquires the Wismar plant J. Rettenmaier & Söhne takes over the plants in Ettenheim and Herbrechtingen Final negotiations with interested parties for the Torgau plant The existing team of experts will secure the operations […]
May 17 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-05-17 / Lennart Ljungblom PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 17.5.2016: EUR/MWh 28.83 (-0.11 from previous month), SEK/MWh 265.31 (-3.39 from previous month) In April, the temperatures in some parts of the Nordic countries were higher than on average, but in some parts the difference from the long-term average was only limited. Prices reported to us […]
May 12 2016
Jamal Al-Ghurair, Chairman of Al Khaleej Sugar – considered the world’s biggest port-based refined sugar producer with a standalone capacity of producing more than 7,000 metric tons sugar per day – has just confirmed his presence as a speaker at the 10th ISO DATAGRO New York Sugar & Ethanol Conference. His participation will take place during the panel “Capacity refining […]
May 11 2016
business.conbio.info Exportation of wood pellets from North America totaled 6.1 million tons in 2015, which almost four times as much as in 2010, as reported in the latest issue of the North American Wood Fiber Review. In the second half of 2015, export volumes from Southern Gulf ports were up almost 70%. UK and Japan […]
May 10 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-05-10 / Lennart Ljungblom Biodiesel: Argentine ag exports boom after policy shift. Vegoil and vegoil products saw particularly robust export growth. Exports of biodiesel, which is Argentina is largely derived from soyoil, rose by 107% to $126m. Soyoil exports were up 72% by value, at $988m, with sunflower oil exports soaring by 225% to […]
May 10 2016
Plants report that Abengoa’s ethanol plant in Rotterdam has been confirmed closed, bringing Europe’s production deficit to 1.12 million cubic meters per year. The 480,000 cu m/year facility as well as the 241,000 cu m/year Salamanca ethanol facility that shut in April will be closed for an undetermined amount of time. The big Abengoa plant in […]
Apr 28 2016
Business.conbio.info /2016-04-28 / Lennart Ljungblom . China-based green energy company Kaidi is planning to build a new wood-based biodiesel plant in northern Finland close to the Swedish border, in Ajos – city of Kemi, by the end of 2019. The biodiesel refinery will use wood-based biomass as main feedstock to produce 200,000 tons of biofuels per year. […]
Apr 22 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-22/Lennart Ljungblom German Pellets related companies keep on falling – now Woodox Management German Pellets daughter Woodox Management GmbH managed by German Pellets CEO Peter Leibold now also in bankruptcy. Their main business was to market the yearly 225 000 ton pellet produced by the three Woodox wood pellet plants Pelletsproduktion Sachsen Anhalt Süd (Osterfeld/Heidegrund), Pelletsproduktion Sachsen […]
Apr 21 2016
Royal Bank of Canada claim Viridis subsidiary Okanagan Pellet Company to pay all outstanding depts Viridis Energy Inc. is a publicly traded company (Toronto Venture exchange: VRD – Public documents HERE) and has been a producer and trader of residential and industrial wood pellet fuel. Viridis is working with FutureMetrics for the potential sale of all […]
Apr 12 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-12 / Lennart Ljungblom Valmet to supply a new screening and washing plant to Smurfit Kappa Cellulose Du Pin Biganos in France Valmet will supply Smurfit Kappa Cellulose Du Pin Biganos pulp and paper mill in France with a new screening and brown stock washing plant for kraft liner pulp production. The new plant […]
Apr 8 2016
April 21 2016: Please check updates about Viridis Energy: /Lennart Ljungblom business.conbio.info /2016-04-08 / Lennart Ljungblom Viridis Energy ceases operations at its Okanagan Pellet Co. plant Viridis Energy has ceased operations at its Okanagan Pellet Co. (OPC) plant due to recent structural concerns and a combination of other factors. According to the company, despite substantial upgrades over […]
Apr 8 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-07 / Lennart Ljungblom Pellets and tidal power to save UK steel industry Sanjeev Gupta, chairman of Liberty House Group is convinced there’s still a profitable life ahead for Britain’s nearly bankrupt steel industry, and he’s planning to use wood pellets and sea tides to save it according to Renewableenergyworld.com. His plan involves rewriting the economics of […]
Apr 6 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-06 / Lennart Ljungblom Amec Foster Wheeler supplies pellet combustion plant to Finland Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract to supply a 90 MWth biomass powder combustion plant for Finnish utility company Seinäjoen Energia Oy. The plant will be operated as back-up for a peak load district heating plant and increase capacity to 120 MWth. […]
Mar 30 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-03-30 /LLj Tennessee, US-based Astec Industries has received a $122.5 million (€108.3m) order to supply equipment for a Highland Pellets pellet plant, along with a related deposit on the order. Astec previously announced receipt of the initial $30 million order on August 20, 2015. The company plans to build and deliver the equipment in the […]
Mar 30 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-03-30 / Lennart Ljungblom Better use of entire biomass of willow VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University investigated how willow biomass can be utilised more efficiently. When processed correctly, willow is eminently suitable as a source of sugar in the production of ethanol. The lignin fraction formed as a by-product of […]
Mar 22 2016
2016-03-22 / www.business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom UK Waste to Power: Viridor opened new plant in Peterborough On Wednesday (16 March) Peterborough Energy Recovery Facility, the latest ERF (Energy Recovery Facility) to be delivered by Viridor, was opened. The ERF enables the City of Peterborough to divert 85,000 tonnes of residual (black bag) waste from landfill each […]
Mar 20 2016
business.conbio.info / Lennart Ljungblom Production at German Pellets runs again according to a statement of Wolfgang Weber-Thedy from the company Agency Weaver Thedy, through which the communication of the provisional insolvency administrator Bettina Schmudde runs. Weber-Thedy said the production now run on one of two lines in Wismar. Meanwhile, also an investor process has been started. The primary […]
Mar 19 2016
www.business.conbio.info / Lennart Ljungblom /2016-03-18 USA: Non starch ethanol and renewable biofuels producers, the 2015 NREL survey In order to understand the anticipated status of the industry for non-starch ethanol and renewable hydrocarbon biofuels as of the end of calendar year 2015, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) updated its annual survey of U.S. non-starch […]
Mar 19 2016
business.conbio/Lennart Ljungblom United Airlines Begins Regular Commercial Flights Using Renewable Jet Fuel Made From Honeywell UOP Technology DES PLAINES, Ill., March 11, 2016 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) UOP announced that starting today United Airlines will use Honeywell Green Jet Fuel™ to power 12,500 flights from Los Angeles to San Francisco as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions […]
Mar 8 2016
Business.conbio.info/2016/03/08/Lennart Ljungblom DONG Energy invests in bio plant in the UK The world’s first bio plant for handling unsorted household waste without prior treatment, using enzymes will be ready in early 2017. DONG Energy will finance, build and operate the plant. Watch how the REnescience technology works. DONG Energy has decided to build the world’s […]
Mar 4 2016
Rottneros invests 98 million in fossil-free energy – biomass replace oil 2016-03-04 08:30 Rottneros’ Board of Directors has granted Rottneros Mill to invest SEK 98 million in a new energy and emission efficient biomass boiler. It will replace fossil oil as the energy source used to dry pulp in the mills flash dryers. The investment […]
Mar 4 2016
Valmet to supply an OptiConcept M boardmaking line and mill-wide automation system to Pro-Gest in Italy business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom 2016.03.04 Valmet will supply an OptiConcept M containerboard production line and a mill-wide Valmet DNA automation system for Pro-Gest S.p.a. for the company’s new Mantova site in Italy. The new production line is planned to produce […]
Feb 17 2016
Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 29.42 – 0.67 28.74 – 30.10 SEK/MWh 273.09 – 5.02 Index is based on previous month’s data. For price conversion between price per ton and price per MWh, a coefficient of 4.8 is used, if not otherwise informed by the price provider. According to […]
Feb 11 2016
The Wismar based pellet fuel producer German Pellets may not rehabilitate themselves. The application for self-administered insolvency had been rejected. If accepted the founder Peter Leibold would continue remained in office, despite having to answer for the failure. Court appoints Bettina Schmudde of the law firm White & Case as preliminary insolvency administrator . German Pellets had […]
Feb 4 2016
Virent teams up with Tesoro to beef up development of biofuels US-based biofuels producer Virent has entered into a new strategic relationship with petroleum specialist Tesoro to accelerate the development and commercialisation of Virent’s products. Virent’s patented technology features catalytic chemistry to convert plant-based materials into a full range of products identical to those made […]
Feb 4 2016
Syngenta Agrees to $43 Billion ChemChina Takeover Deal would be the largest foreign acquisition by a Chinese company China’s state-owned ChemChina will acquire the Swiss agri business Syngenta in a long-rumoured and controversial $43 billion (€39.4bn) deal. Secrecy has surrounded the deal since November 2015, when Syngenta – the producer of bioengineered Enogen corn for […]
Feb 2 2016
January 27, 2016 Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W) (NYSE:BW) announced that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, has been awarded a contract for more than $90 million to design, manufacture and build a waste-to-energy power plant near Haresfield, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. B&W Vølund was awarded the contract by a joint venture of […]
Feb 2 2016
Aerial view of the future Orthios Holyhead Eco Park Orthios, a UK sustainable energy company, is preparing to begin work on two combined food and power plants in the UK. To be located at a former Anglesey Aluminium in Wales at Holyhead, Anglesey, the £1 billion (€1.3bn) Orthios Eco Park will process waste wood to […]
Feb 2 2016
The joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), PensionDanmark and BWSC completes construction of their GBP 162m biomass power plant investment in the UK well ahead of schedule. The 40 MW plant is located in Lincolnshire and fed by straw. In 2013, Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), together with […]
Jan 12 2016
CMT’s Biomass Series has traveled across Europe, America and Asia – from Rotterdam to Brussels to Atlanta to Seoul to Jakarta and recently to Tokyo. With nearly a decade of bringing together over thousands of wood pellet & wood chip producers & traders, power utilities, and technology providers, the Series is often pegged as the […]
Jan 12 2016
Following the success of Lignofuels 2015 event in Madrid with the Abengoa demonstration plant site visit, Lignofuels 2016 Summit will be taking place in Munich, Germany on the 20th and 21st of January 2016. The event is organised by ACI, Active Communication International. With offices in Chicago, London, Pune, Portland, Poznań and Milwaukee, ACI produce world-class […]
Jan 12 2016
The World Sustainable Energy Days, 23 – 26 of February, including the European Pellet Conference Feb 24-25, are organised by the OÖ Energiesparverband, the energy agency of Upper Austria with the mission of promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Independently in parallell 24 – 28 February is the big Energisparmesse – Expoenergy – organised by […]
Jan 11 2016
Entsorga West Virginia announced January 6 the groundbreaking of the U.S.’s first resource recovery facility utilizing Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT). The plant to be located in Martinsburg, West Virginia will recover bio-mass, plastics and other carbon based materials from the mixed municipal solid waste (MSW) stream and convert them into 50 000 ton SRF, solid recovery fuel annually. It is […]
Jan 10 2016
Veolia ES (UK) Ltd. has announced (January 6) that it has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of Boomeco Ltd., a waste wood processor and producer of refuse derived fuel (RDF). Based in Avonmouth, Bristol, the Boomeco site processes a variety of grades of wood into wood chips to be used in combined-heat-and-power […]
Jan 10 2016
Oasis Group to invest Rs 500 crore (5000 million) for setting up ethanol plant NEW DELHI: Oasis Group is planning to invest Rs 500 crore (5000 million) for establishing a wheat-based ethanol plant with capacity of 5 00 000 litres per day at Ferozepur in Punjab. At present, mostly sugar mills are producing ethanol in the country, which is […]
Jan 10 2016
Jan 10 – RWE, Germany’s second-biggest utility, has agreed to sell its 420 MW Lynemouth coal-fired power plant in Britain to Czech-Slovak energy investment group EPH, it said on Thursday. No purchase price was disclosed for the 420-megawatt (MW) plant in northern England, bought by RWE in 2012. The sale comes after the European Commission in […]
Jan 10 2016
The European Commission (EC) has started an in-depth investigation to make sure that the planned UK subsidy contract (CfD) for a 645-MW biomass-fired unit of Drax Group Plc (LON:DRX) will be in line with EU state aid rules. The UK based power plant is in the process of switching it’s third of six units from coal […]
Jan 10 2016
The New Jersey citizen Joseph Furando will spend the next 20 years in prison after a federal judge in Indiana sentenced him in a biodiesel scam described as the largest of its kind in Indiana’s history, reports NJ.com. He also will have to pay restitution of $56 million and give up a million-dollar home, a Ferrari, artwork and […]
Jan 8 2016
Abengoa Yield plc (ABY), the sustainable total return company that owns a diversified portfolio of stable and long-term contracted infrastructure assets in the energy and environment sectors, announced January 7 that it has changed its corporate brand to Atlantica Yield, effective immediately. the parent company, is going through. The parent company Spanish Abengoa is in a […]
Jan 8 2016
Only two weeks to Biomass & BioEnergy Asia conference, taking place on 26-28 January 2016 at Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit. The tree days event also include Biomass Supply Chain and Biofuels World Asia. First day include presentations from Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar as well as technological overviews. Second day continue with presentations of biomass feed stocks, environment and markets for power and fuels. […]
Jan 6 2016
German utility E.on SE (ETR:EOAN) said on Monday it has completed the previously announced separation of its fossil fuel activities from its renewable energy business. A new Duesseldorf-based company, called Uniper, has been created to hold E.on’s conventional power generation, including hydropower, natural gas and coal, and global energy trading operations. It will be spun […]
Jan 6 2016
Iowa’s biorefiners has crossed the 4 billion gallons – 15.1 million cubic meter – ethanol production threshold in 2015 In Iowa, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) announced January 3 that Iowa’s 43 ethanol plants produced over 4 billion gallons during 2015, up slightly from 3.9 billion gallons in 2014. Iowa continues to be the number […]
Jan 6 2016
Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE:EVA) has announced it has acquired the fully-contracted 510 000 t/y Southampton plant from its sponsor’s joint venture Enviva Holding with affiliates of John Hancock Life Insurance Company. Highlights: Acquired Southampton plant and 10-year take-or-pay off-take contract for $131 million Increased production capacity to 2.2 million metric tons per year Extended weighted average […]
Dec 17 2015
Stockholm: The first delivery of biofuels to Fortums new power plant has arrived in the port The first vessel supply of biofuels has arrived in the port, Värtahamnen, in central Stockholm, to a special quay dedicated for the plant. This delivery will be the first test for all equipments so they soon will be able to […]
Dec 17 2015
Finland’s Chempolis ties-up with Avantha group for offering Technology to extract ethanol from cellulosic bio waste Partnership with ACRID to help India reach 10% ethanol blending in petrol New Delhi, December 16, 2015: Chempolis Limited, a Finland based biorefining technology corporation, has entered into partnership with Avantha Group’s research wing Avantha Centre for Industrial Research & […]
Dec 15 2015
Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 29.83 + 1.04 29.57 – 30.09 SEK/MWh 277.82 + 8.67 After removing the highest and lowest 10% of the price quotes, the PIX Pellet Nordic index value increased in Euro-terms by 1.04 euros, or by 3.61%, ending at 29.83 EUR/MWh. The value increased also in […]
Dec 13 2015
USDA Provides Loan Guarantee Conditional Commitment to Build Georgia Biofuel Plant By Lennart Ljungblom, business.conbio.info WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a conditional commitment for a $70 million loan guarantee to help build a cellulosic biorefinery in central Georgia. USDA is providing the loan guarantee conditional commitment, an important milestone […]
Dec 13 2015
DuPont, Dow plan to merge then split into 3 independent companies Edited by Lennart Ljungblom, business.conbio.info Caption: Edward D. Breen, chairman and CEO of DuPont, and Andrew N. Liveris, chairman and CEO of Dow, announce a planned merger of the two companies. DuPont and The Dow Chemical Co. have announced that their boards of directors […]
Dec 13 2015
Veolia appointed operator of the biomass CHP plant in Nottingham Veolia has strengthened its position in generating energy from biomass by securing a £50 million ($75.79 million) contract from Equitix ESI CHP, to operate the Sherwood Biomass Plant in Nottingham. The 20 year contract highlights the growing U.K. commitment to this type of energy project, […]
Dec 9 2015
Abengoa reportedly lays off staff at Hugoton and other US locations Abengoa has reportedly laid off staff at its Hugoton, Kansas, cellulosic ethanol plant and other facilities and offices worldwide, reports Biomass Magazin. Last month Abengoa indicating its previously announced framework agreement with Gonvarri Corporación Financiera, a company belonging to Gonvarri Steel Industries, was terminated, citing a […]
Dec 9 2015
U.S. ethanol exports in October totalled 70.1 million gallons .This is up with 16 per cent over September levels, according to RFA analysis of government data recently released. For the first time ever, China served as the top customer for U.S. ethanol, buying nearly half of all ethanol exports in October. Exports to China catapulted […]
Dec 2 2015
UK Coal plant gets green light to burn wood pellets Another of Britain’s remaining coal-fired power plants is to be converted to burn wood pellets mainly shipped in from North America, after the European Commission approved a £1bn subsidy contract for the project. Lynemouth 420 MW power plant to be resurrected as a biomass plant […]
Dec 1 2015
Statkraft, a European renewable energy generator, has shipped over 3,000 tonnes of woodchips to a customer in Denmark. The consignment is the first woodchip cargo to be shipped from Statkraft’s new biomass trading hub which opened in August at the site of the former Södra Cell paper mill, located south of Oslo, Norway, at Tofte. […]
Dec 1 2015
SBP Framework Recognised by UK Energy Regulator UK energy regulator, Ofgem, has today published a summary of the results of its benchmarking exercise of voluntary schemes against the UK’s Renewables Obligation land criteria for woody biomass. The SBP Framework has been evaluated and found to be fully compliant with the legislation. The summary of results […]
Dec 1 2015
Bioenergy Infrastructure Group announces second energy-from-waste project in Hull Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), a platform established to invest and operate biomass plants in the UK, has reached financial close on its second waste-to-energy project. The new £200 million (€284 million) plant has a 25MW capacity and will be located on 7.5 acres in Hull, East […]
Dec 1 2015
E.ON’s Ironbridge Power Station to generate electricity for the last time E.ON has confirmed that Ironbridge Power Station in Shropshire will cease commercial generation and will permanently close following 46 years of service. The construction of Ironbridge Power Station began in 1962 and is located close to where the Industrial Revolution began. The plant was originally designed to run […]
Dec 1 2015
Construction of £107m waste-to-energy facility to begin in Belfast Full Circle Generation, a UK green investment consortium, is planning to build a major waste-to-energy farm in Northern Ireland. The Belfast Waste for Energy site, to be located at aerospace company Bombardier’s factory, is set to become one of, if not the largest waste energy facilities […]
Dec 1 2015
Solvay Epicerol® Earns Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Certification Bangkok, 1 December 2015 – Solvay subsidiary Advanced Biochemical Thailand Co., Ltd. (ABT) has received certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) for the production of Epicerol®, a bio-based building block for renewable chemicals and resins. The certificate covers the manufacture of bio-based epichlorohydrin (ECH), using […]
Nov 26 2015
Abengoa seeks insolvency protection November 25, 2015 In New York, NASDAQ shares in Abengoa SA plunged 49% in Wednesday trading after the embattled renewable energy developer said it would seek bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganize nearly $9.4 billion in debt. The protective filing was announced after an expected infusion of nearly $300 million […]
Nov 25 2015
Europe remains most important market for electricity generation from solid biomass Even though subsidies are declining in Europe, it will remain the world’s most important market for biomass power plants, with 75 billion € to be invested within the next 10 years. The market in Asia is flagging at a high level and still shows […]
Nov 23 2015
Northeast Wood Products (NWP) is pleased to announce that construction on its newest manufacturing facility in Jasper, TN is nearly complete with production to begin in November. During this first phase, the plant will have the capacity to produce up to 125,000 tons of premium heat pellets annually, and the company anticipate it will double capacity […]
Nov 17 2015
The LanzaTech presentation is enhanced with commentary from the BioChannel.TV commentary team, including former DOE Biomass Program manager Dr. Paul Bryan. The coverage also includes clips from Sir Richard Branson discussing the significance of the technology – as well as 20 in-depth slides on the state of the technology, partners, timeline to scale, and the 10-year […]
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Sep 24 2016
Waste to power – Lockheed Martin opens advanced bioenergy plant in New York
Lockheed Martin opened a new waste to power gasification facility in Owego, New York. Lockheed Martin opened a new bioenergy facility in Owego, New York, at a ribbon cutting ceremony Sept. 21. The system, which is now completing commissioning, uses Concord Blue’s advanced technology that will convert waste into clean, renewable energy via gasification to syngas […]
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