Importance of Sustainability Growing for Food Industry
ANALYSIS - Sustainability is becoming a major item for the food industry around the world, as resources become more restricted and demand grows....

KLM Pushes Use of Biofuels in Long-haul Flights
GLOBAL - Dutch airline KLM is set to offer weekly transatlantic flights powered by biofuels in the near future....

DOE Eyes Used Cooking Oil as Alternative Fuel
PHILIPPINES - The Department of Energy (DOE) will be implementing a feasibility study on the use of secondhand vegetable oil to power vehicles in the country. ...

B99 Blend Back at Pumps in US Northwest
US - Sequential Pacific Biodiesel (SPB) is to return supplying a B99 biodiesel blend to over 30 local retail outlets throughout Oregon and Washington....

Green Energy to Expand Asian Biofuels Reach
MALAYSIA - Portugal-based engineering company Incbio will work with a subsidiary of Green Energy Group to construct a new biodiesel plant in Malaysia....

Location Important for US Biodiesel Plant
US - Biodiesel production has begun at a plant in Connecticut, US this February....

Collaboration to Boost US Biodiesel Levels
US - Two US east coast-based biodiesel development companies have signed an agreement to provide the national capital region (NCR) with clean burning biodiesel....

NNFCC: 2012 Bioenergy Review of the Year
UK - This year has seen significant progress in the development of renewable energy technologies. The National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC) Chief Executive, Dr Jeremy Tomkinson, looks back at...

Germany Helps Ukraine Develop Biofuel Production
UKRAINE - Germany intends to assist Ukraine in establishing its own biofuel production in 2013, reports minagro.gov.ua. ...

London Biofuel Plant Preparing for Lift-off
UK - A sustainable jet fuel project named GreenSky London is gaining momentum after stakeholder British Airways (BA) confirmed its financial commitment to the cause....

Waste Fish Oil Biodiesel Used for Fuel in Iran
IRAN - A study by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, is looking at the prospect of waste fish oil as a sustainable energy source for biodiesel production in Iran. ...

EPA Sets Biodiesel Volumes for 2013
US - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken action to establish the amount of bio-diesel products required to be included in diesel fuel markets in 2013. Bio-based diesel products...

Energy Improvements at Cargill Beef Plant
US – Recent investments by Cargill at its Fort Morgan, Colorado, beef processing plant, amounting to approximately $1.8 million, have increased the facility’s energy efficiency and reduced...

Vegetable Oil Among Most Economical Fuels
CANADA - A Manitoba film maker says waste vegetable oil is emerging as one of the most economical alternative automobile fuels....

Waste to Biogas - Mapping Tool Available
US - The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Pacific Southwest Region has launched an online “waste to biogas mapping tool” to support the use of organic waste for energy projects....

Shell Launches Biodiesel Facility in Australia
AUSTRALIA - A new AU$4.8 million facility that will give Victorians greater access to biodiesel has been officially opened in Melbourne by Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Richard...

EBI Energy Farm Researchs Bioenergy Solutions
US - University of Illinois associate professor and Extension specialist Tom Voigt says that he feels "fortunate and happy" to be involved in EBI's research activities that include bioenergy...

Agri Opens 'State of the Art' Biodiesel Plant
UK - The UK’s largest used cooking oil biodiesel plant launched in Liverpool yesterday. The plant was opened in Bootle by transport minister Norman Baker and is the culmination of a six-year...

Fish Oil, Cow Manure Combine to Produce Biogas
DENMARK - By-products from the production of omega-3 fish oil in combination with cattle manure can be gainfully used to produce biogas....

Bangchack Pushes Cassava-based Ethanol
THAILAND - The government is being urged to get more serious in forcing oil traders to buy more cassava from farmers as a feedstock for ethanol production to help stabilise domestic cassava prices....

Prisons to Fuel New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND - The local Department of Corrections has signed a deal with Biodiesel New Zealand so that it can supply the biofuels company with used cooking oil (UCO) from 18 of its prison kitchens...

Honeywell to Test Jet Biofuel in Canada
CANADA - Honeywell is to test its Green Jet Fuel under a programme that uses a biofeedstock that has been designed especially for biofuel production....

Dreamliner Makes First Transpacific Biofuel Flight
JAPAN - Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) yesterday became the first to fly over the pacific ocean using an aviation jet fuel made in part from sustainable biofuel....

Qantas to Run Australia's First Biofuel Flight
AUSTRALIA - Australian airline Qantas is to operate the country’s first commercial flight on biofuels on 13 April 2012....

WBM: Algae, Emerging Markets Highlight Day Three
THE NETHERLANDS - The World Biofuels Markets Congress & Exhibition 2012 concluded yesterday with sessions dedicated to the up-and-coming algae industry, waste-to-fuel technologies, and the future...