ACCORDING to new market research report, Global Biodiesel Market (2009 – 2014), published by MarketsandMarkets, the total global biodiesel market is expected to be worth US$12.6 billion by 2014, out of which the European and Americas market will account for nearly 55.6 per cent and 28.6pc of the total revenues respectively.

The global market is expected to record a CAGR of 7.8% from 2009 to 2014. Leer más »

Bernd Waltermann and Henning Streubel ,  Jakarta.

As Indonesia is today the world’s largest producer of crude palm oil (CPO) — a desirable feedstock for biodiesel production — it has the potential to grow into a world biodiesel leader and a model for plantation sustainability.

Biodiesel has the potential to become a significant industry sector in Indonesia, supported by two of its most valuable assets: its oil palm plantations, and more importantly, its people. Indonesia currently produces approximately 20 million tons of CPO per year from 7 million hectares of oil palm plantation, of which approximately 80 percent  is exported.  Leer más »

Growing imports of cheap Argentine biodiesel into Europe are replacing U.S. imports hit by European Union anti-dumping duties in March, Swiss-German biodiesel producer Biopetrol said on Thursday.

“Increasing amounts of indirectly-subsidized biodiesel have been coming to Europe from Argentina since the second quarter,” Biopetrol said in a statement in a statement on its first half 2009 results. Leer más »

Raúl Padilla, the president of Bunge Argentina,was one of the main assistants to the 5° conference of the Forum of the Agroindustrial Chain and in a break of the encounter he dialogued with punto biz about the projects of the company. Â

How does the construction of the fertilizers plant in the Ramallo complex go? Â

After 19 months of works, I can say that we are about to begin to operate. In the next days we will be producing and we begin with a capacity of 200/210 thousand tons. Leer más »

It is the Global Agricultural Resources (Gar) company.Â

Its representative in Argentina advanced that once they reach the 50.000 sowed hectares, they will install an oil factory and later on, a biofuel elaborato.Â

The Global Agricultural Resources (GAR) company, of Swiss capitals, advanced that it will build an oil plant oil in the Nea and later on, a biodiesel elaborator. Leer más »

The Oriental Republic of the Uruguay depends in great measure of external energy sources, at least until they discovered some gas and petroleum locations that could feed the country during almost 100 years. Anyway, it could try to incorporate a bigger load of renewable energy, since it doesn’t participate in the non renewable energy market. Leer más »