Comment on this post Posted by Cindy Zimmerman/During a visit to highlight renewable energy use by the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also spotlighted the Hawaii-based biodiesel producer that supplies much of the fuel used there.

Pacific Biodiesel “is the oldest biodiesel producer and refinery in the country, started in 1996,” said Vilsack during his remarks on Tuesday at the memorial, noting that USDA has provided assistance to help that company grow. “We provided recently a $5 million business and industry loan to Pacific Biodiesel to allow it to continue to expand its capacity.” Leer más »

INDIA/Tuesday, January 03, 2012, 02:50 (GMT + 9)/Developer of joint venture partnerships for algae production for biodiesel and commercial fish food World Health Energy Holdings, Inc (WHEN) has announced the signing of a letter of intent with industrial and transport company Prime Inc to develop a biodiesel production facility ramping up to 250 ac with a budget of up to USD 100 million. Leer más »

By Erin Voegele | January 03, 2012/The American Soybean Association recently published a list of key accomplishments it achieved in 2011, including several related to the biodiesel industry. “Record U.S. soybean production and export values and record biodiesel production were clear indicators of the benefit of ASA’s long-term efforts to increase both domestic and international market demand,” said ASA Chairman and past president Alan Kemper.”While we are proud of our work, this is aIt  shared record of accomplishment that was made possible by the work of ASA, our state affiliates, the soybean checkoff at both the national and state levels, and our industry partners.” Leer más »

By Bryan Sims | January 03, 2012/Israel-based Evogene Ltd. has launched a wholly owned subsidiary, Evofuel Ltd., to accelerate the development and commercialization of castor bean varieties in Brazil for biodiesel and biojet fuel production, as well as to expand biofuel research and development activities located in Israel.

According to a statement released by Evogene, the impetus behind establishing the subsidiary is due to the need for diversifying feedstock supply to fulfill worldwide demand of biodiesel, which currently relies mainly on edible oils such as soybeans and canola. Leer más »

HAMBURG (Reuters) – A number of European biodiesel refiners are likely to go under, and the EU will be under pressure to erect barriers to imports in the coming year as low demand in Europe for the green fuel combines with stiff competition from abroad.

“Many biodiesel companies are already in a critical situation, and there is a risk that this will be transformed into companies closing in the next months,” said Raffaello Garofalo, secretary general of the European biodiesel industry association EBB. Leer más »

By Rachel Graham, Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) — European Union biodiesel production may fall for the first time in 2011 as Argentina and Indonesia increased exports to the region, an industry association said. Leer más »

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters)/The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of Canadian crops such as canola and corn in U.S. biofuels on Thursday, a move that lifted Canadian canola prices and may help the U.S. meet its ambitious targets for biofuels.

The EPA’s designation of Canadian crops as a renewable biomass will allow U.S. biofuel makers to collect tax credits for using them, said Canola Council of Canada president JoAnne Buth.

“I suspect we will see more canola moving into the U.S. now,” Buth said in an interview. Leer más »

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sep, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Imperial Petroleum, Inc. (otcqx:IPMN) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, e-Biofuels, LLC, produced and sold approximately 26 million gallons of transportation biodiesel in the Company’s most recent fiscal year ending July 31, 2011 resulting in revenues of approximately $106 million.

Jeffrey T. Wilson, President of Imperial said, “We’re very excited about the Company’s growth prospects. As a result of the turnaround of the biodiesel operations and robust demand for the product created by the RFS2 (Renewable Fuel Standard) our Company is set to experience built-in revenue growth for fiscal 2012 based on a full year of operation at plant capacity. At the Middletown, Indiana facility’s current production rates, the Company is on pace to produce in excess of 34 million gallons of fuel in fiscal 2012 or an annual increase of about 30%. Leer más »

Across the nation, biodiesel plants have been restarting or ramping up production, spurred by a revived federal tax credit and renewable energy mandates.

Becky Williams removes a pumping tube from a truck delivering oil to Renewable Energy Group’s biodiesel plant in Glenville, Minn. The plant was idled in March 2008 but has a new lease on life. (Renee Jones Schneider, MCT / September 19, 2011).Lufthansa flights take off using biofuel mix in engines./By David Shaffer.

Reporting from Glenville, Minn.— For more than three years, the SoyMor Biodiesel plant sat idle — victim of a slump that took down more than a quarter of the plants in the industry. Leer más »

* Rotterdam plant largest in Europe

* Production to be ramped up in stages

* Lifts Neste Oil’s total renewable diesel capacity to 2 mln tonnes a year (Adds CEO comments)

HELSINKI, Sept 20 – Neste Oil has started up its new renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, the Finnish refiner said on Tuesday.

The plant, with a total capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year, is the largest in Europe and can make renewable diesel from different types of vegetable oils and waste fats.

Production of renewable diesel would be ramped up in stages, the company said. Leer más »