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17 June, 2009
The owner of the Centro Azucarero Argentino said that the sugar mills are investing to join the plan. The industrialists are trying to neutralize the pressure of oil companies in order to postpone the start of the program. FORECASTS. Next year all the cars should load with a gasoline mixture of 5% ethanol. Bottleneck The Director of Research and Technology of the Agricultural Experimental Station, Gerónimo Cardenas, suggested that the bottleneck of the sugar for their participation in the program of biofuels is the dehydration of the alcohol. However, he say that next year the sugar mills will be able to supply alcohol to mix with fuel. The controversy over whether the Argentine sugar industry will be able to supply ethanol to oil companies as from 1 January 2010, when the national program of biofuels starts it seem to have entered a peak. The owner of Centro Sucarero Argentino, Fernando Nebbia, argued that in the planned start date, the plan of biofuels based on bioethanol of sugar cane will begin, and explained that while there are interests that seek to delay the renewable energy, “it´s widely use is inescapable.” In the speach at the International Exhibition of Renewable Energies, the businessman explained that the sugar activity will have all its resources to ensure the success of the plan and emphasized that this is because the refineries “are making the investments necessary to produce the volumes to ensure the mandatory 5% ethanol for fuel. ” In his view, like any new system, it will probably require a maturation phase, which may include that the first 5% applies only to certain fuels across the country, or all in one region. Sugar producers are trying to neutralize the pressure of the oil companies for the start of the program to be postponed. The fuel producers argue that the program may not start if the total of alcohol is not available to mix with gasoline. Moreover, speaking of the international situation of the sugar industry, highlighted the beginning of a global cycle, coupled with the prospect that local biofuel plan entails, 2009 promises a harvest not only at production levels but also profitable. “Sugar prices will continue intone,” said Nebbia, and said that positive economic indicators of supply and demand “are multiplied by the entry of investment funds out of other soft commodities.” With these indicators, sugar this year expects to export 900,000 tons, according to the specialist, represents “a challenge for the industry.” He also recalled that the activity is in a dynamic process of modernization for over 10 years, and therefore ceased to be a single product to be consolidated as an activity that contributes to the nation three strategic factors for development: the food through the sugar, the fuel through bioethanol, and energy through the production of electricity from sugar cane. Source: La Gaceta 1 comentario sobre “Biofuels: sugar producers believe ethanol use will begin on January”Deje un comentario |
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