The sugar sector is in its best moment, since today president Cristina Kirchner will sign new regulation ordinances of law 26.093 that foresees incentives for the bioethanol production. The norm, that wants to promote the biofuels, was promulgated more than two years ago, during the government of Néstor Kirchner, and it established that, starting from 2010, the naphthas and the gasoil will have to be cut with at least 5% of ethanol and biodiesel. Â

The biodiesel is elaborated mainly based on the soya, while the ethanol is produced starting from the corn, sorghum or sugarcane. The new regulations will give more security to the sugar sector, since it will define the price of the product, the quality standards, the rules for the presentation of industrial plants projects and the safety regulations of these. Leer más »

A mushroom able to produce components as those that are in the diesel gasoline were discovered in the Patagonia.Â

The mushroom could be a potential source of clean fuel for cars. Â

The mushroom, affirmed an investigation published in the Microbiology magazine, could potentially be a new green energy source. Leer más »

ROME (AFP)-The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)Â questioned the benefits of the biofuels and requested a revision of the policies and subsidies to those products, in a report published on Tuesday in Rome.Â

The document that circulates annually under the title ‘The State of Food and Agriculture´ (SOFA), analyzes the advantages and risks of the biofuels. Leer más »

They will be held on the 21st and 22nd of October.Â

The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of San Lorenzo presented formally yesterday the 4º Round of Negotiations and Products and Services Fair that will be held on the 21st and 22nd of October in the property of the entity located on Falucho and Avenue San Martin streets. Leer más »

It is the main world pole of the oil industry. From Timbúes, at the north of this city, up to Villa Constitution at the south, the 75 kms of coast of the river Paraná has a score of industrial complexes of the main trading and grain processing companies. The region around Rosario has become the first pole of the world´s oleaginous industry. From Timbúes, at the north of this city, up to Villa Constitution at the south, the 75 kms of coast of the river Paraná has a score of industrial complexes of the main trading and grain processing companies, more fertilizers logistics plants, even factories like that of Mosaic, malt houses, as that which Cargill mounted in Punta Alvear, and biodiesel factories. Leer más »

The 6º Day Conference of Quality Upgrading in the Oil Industry was organized by ASAGA and held last Friday in the facilities of the Holliday Inn Hotel of Rosario city. In it topics astraceability, minimum entrance standards to the external markets, effective normatives, and new methodologies for hte quality analysis applied to the oil, vegetable flours and biodiesel industry were approached. Leer más »

Interview with Douglas Arent, director of the renewable energy laboratory of USAÂ

The official said that the use of raw materials in biofuels won’t necessarily imply an increase of prices
Douglas Arent: “I believe that the possibilities with the biofuels are very attractive in the Argentina”
Picture: Fernanda Corbani

The debate on the use of foods for the production of alternative energy could be solved with the development of new technologies. The projections of the United States are optimistic about the industrial reach that, as they say, will achieve the energy generation on the base of agricultural residuals and other natural sources. The advances would allow to avoid the competition with the nutritious products, to which is attributed between a 3 and 4 percent of their rise in the price, according to the index that elaborates the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Â

As was expressed by Douglas Arent, director of the renewable energy laboratory of the North American government’s (NREL, for his initials in english), when receiving LA NACION in the embassy of that country in Buenos Aires. Leer más »