North America
1. Bakersfield, California&mdash;Nov. 13, 2017 Crimson Renewable Energy announced a contract with BDI-BioEnergy International to build a second plant alongside its existing 24 MMgy plant using BDI&rsquo;s novel RepCat process, which employs a recyclable catalyst. The 12 MMgy addition will be able to process low-quality feedstock and is expected to be operational mid-2019. 2. Wichita, Kansas&mdash;Nov. 24, 2017 Air Liquide Engineering &amp; Construction announced it is engineering and supplying Cargill&rsquo;s 60 MMgy facility in Wichita, Kansas. Cargill first announced building the $90 million plant Sept. 21. It is under construction next to its oilseed processing plant. Construction began December 2017 and startup is expected January 2019. 3. St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec&mdash;Nov. 27, 2017 Canadian biodiesel producer Innoltek Inc. announced it acquired the 19 MMly Evoleum biodiesel plant formerly known as QFI. At the time, Innoltek operated a 5 MMly biodiesel facility in Thetford Mines, Quebec. On Sept. 11, 2018, Innoltek announced a reorganization in which it would cease operations in Thetford Mines and concentrate production and move its headquarters to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu. 4. Watsonville, California&mdash;Feb. 21, 2018 The 15 MMgy Agron Bioenergy reopened its doors after Western Iowa Energy acquired the idled plant Nov. 14, 2017. WIE owns and operates a 45 MMgy facility in Wall Lake, Iowa, and the Agron acquisition marks WIE&rsquo;s first expansion of operations beyond Iowa. Biodiesel demand created by California&rsquo;s Low Carbon Fuel Standard drove WIE&rsquo;s decision to acquire Agron Bioenergy. 5. Los Angeles, California&mdash;March 20, 2018 World Energy announced it had closed on the purchase from Delek US Holdings of its interests in biojet and renewable diesel producer AltAir Paramount, its Paramount Petroleum refinery assets, both co-located in Paramount, California, as well an adjacent tank farm and most of Delek&rsquo;s California pipeline assets. Seven months later, World Energy announced a $350 million upgrade to complete conversion of the former oil refinery to produce more than 300 MMgy of biojet fuel, renewable diesel, green gasoline and propane. 6. Hamilton, Ontario&mdash;March 26, 2018 World Energy announced a partnership with an investment group led by Halifax, Nova Scotia-based CFFI Ventures. The $345 million deal involved acquisition of Biox Corp., including its flagship 67 MMly (18 MMgy) biodiesel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. 7. Sombra, Ontario&mdash;March 26, 2018 World Energy&rsquo;s acquisition of Biox included its idled 45 MMly (12 MMgy) biodiesel plant. Biox had acquired the Sombra biodiesel plant from Methes Energies in June 2016.&nbsp; 8. Houston, Texas&mdash;March 26, 2018 World Energy&rsquo;s acquisition of Biox left it the sole owner of the 90 MMgy Texas plant that a World Energy/Biox joint venture (JV) acquired in June 2016. The plant is now simply called World Energy Houston. 9. Sarnia, Ontario&mdash;April 3, 2018 Bioindustrial Innovation Canada approved an investment in biodiesel technology developer Benefuel Inc. to build a new 20 MMgy biodiesel plant in Canada. Benefuel&rsquo;s Ensel technology employs a solid acid catalyst that combines esterification and transesterification. The technology is deployed at the 50 MMgy Duonix plant in Beatrice, Nebraska, a JV between Benefuel and Flint Hills Resources. Benefuel expects to break ground on its 20 MMgy plant in Sarnia in 2019. 10. Washington, Iowa&mdash;April 24, 2018 Hero BX announced a strategic partnership with Iowa Renewable Energy to manufacture and market biodiesel from IRE&rsquo;s 30 MMgy facility. Hero BX says it will apply its established business model, which values integrity, quality and safety, to help capitalize on the new venture. 11. Ralston, Iowa&mdash;May 10, 2018 Renewable Energy Group announced completion of a $32 million expansion and upgrade at its Ralston biodiesel plant. Production capacity has more than doubled from 12 to 30 MMgy. Significant upgrades were made to its logistics and storage capabilities. The project broke ground in November 2016. 12. Bridgeport, Connecticut&mdash;June 27, 2018 Equity Partners HG announced that the 13 MMgy Bridgeport Biodiesel plant retained it to find an investor or buyer for the bankrupt company. On April 12, Biodiesel Magazine reported Bridgeport Biodiesel was filing bankruptcy after being plagued with mechanical and flow issues. 13. Dickinson, North Dakota&mdash;Aug. 6, 2018 Andeavor (formerly Tesoro, now Marathon) announced its 20,000 barrel per day (bpd) oil refinery, which had already begun coprocessing renewable diesel, was moving toward complete conversion to make 12,000 bpd of renewable diesel. The project is expected to be completed in late 2020. 14. South Roxana, Illinois&mdash;Aug. 7, 2018 Biodiesel Magazine broke news that Hero BX acquired the former Midwest Biodiesel Products 12 MMgy biodiesel plant at auction. Hero BX said after it completes its redesign and rebuild, the plant will produce 15 MMgy from multiple feedstocks. The project is slated for completion in 2019. 15. Estill, South Carolina&mdash;Aug. 13, 2018 Biodiesel Magazine learned World Energy was in the process of acquiring an idled 40 MMgy biodiesel plant formerly known as Ecogy Biofuels. At press time, World Energy expected the deal to be closed in December. 16. Reno, Nevada&mdash;Aug. 27, 2018 Ryze Renewables announced it has begun construction on a 50 MMgy renewable diesel plant. It is partnering with Phillips 66, which will supply the facility with feedstock and move 100 percent of the product from the plant to customers in West Coast markets. The plant is expected online mid-2019. 17. Las Vegas, Nevada&mdash;Aug. 27, 2018 Ryze Renewables announced it has begun construction on a 100 MMgy renewable diesel plant. The company is partnering with Phillips 66, which will supply the facility with feedstock and move 100 percent of the product from the plant to customers in West Coast markets. The plant is expected to come online in early 2020. 18. Clinton, Iowa&mdash;Sept. 26, 2018 Hero BX announced its acquisition of the former Clinton County Biodiesel 10 MMgy facility from Tenaska Commodities. The plant&rsquo;s proximity to Chicago markets made the deal attractive, officials said. Hero BX expected upgrades&mdash;including a new acid esterification process, reactors, cooling towers and boilers&mdash;to be complete by late 2018. 19. Warrenville, South Carolina&mdash;Sept. 26, 2018 Biodiesel Magazine broke news about Green Energy Biofuel&rsquo;s acquisition of the former Green Valley Biofuel facility, an idled 40 MMgy biodiesel plant. GEB (formerly known as Midlands Biofuels) retrofitted the plant, now called GEB3, to process raw used cooking oil into high-quality feedstock for distribution to East Coast and Mid-Atlantic biodiesel producers. 20. Salem, Oregon&mdash;Oct. 22, 2018 California-based biodiesel producer Crimson Renewable Energy announced its acquisition of SeQuential, a vertically integrated company with a 17 MMgy biodiesel plant in Salem, Oregon, and used cooking oil collection accounts spanning thousands of restaurants. Crimson and SeQuential will continue to operate under their existing brands. 21. Ferndale, Washington&mdash;Nov. 1, 2018 REG announced a partnership with Phillips 66 to construct a large-scale renewable diesel plant adjacent to Phillips 66&rsquo;s Ferndale oil refinery. The facility will employ REG&rsquo;s BioSynfining technology. The announcement followed more than a year of collaboration between the two companies. A final investment decision is expected in 2019. If approved, production at the new facility is slated for 2021. 22. Norco, Louisiana&mdash;Nov. 6, 2018 One month after achieving its newly expanded run rate of 275 MMgy (up from 160 MMgy), Diamond Green Diesel, the JV renewable diesel plant owned by Darling Ingredients and Valero Energy, announced it would further expand production capacity to 675 MMgy. The $1.1 billion project will include construction of a new 50-60 MMgy green gasoline plant and is expected to be completed in late 2021.
International 1. Hartberg, Styria, Austria&mdash;Jan. 26, 2018 BDI-BioLife Science, a subsidiary of BDI Holding GmbH and sister company to BDI-BioEnergy International, broke ground on its new algae biomass production plant after years of R&amp;D on its proprietary algae reactor system. BDI-BioLife Science will own and operate the 15-ton-per-year plant as a raw material producer of algae for various industries. 2. Mussalo, Kotka, Finland&mdash;Feb. 5, 2018 UPM announced it was investigating construction of a second advanced biorefinery scaled at 500,000 tons per year. Eight months later, the company announced its environmental impact assessment was completed and handed off to the authorities for review. 3. Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India&mdash;March 16, 2018 Aemetis announced that its 50 MMgy Universal Biofuels subsidiary in India completed construction of a biodiesel pretreatment unit to process low-cost feedstocks per a three-year supply agreement with BP Singapore. A month later, the company announced Universal Biofuels&rsquo; glycerin refinery is producing beyond its 18,000-ton-per-year capacity as a result of demand exceeding supply. 4. Callao and Paita, Peru&mdash;May 14, 2018 Valero Energy announced it had acquired Pure Biofuels del Peru S.A.C. from Pegasus Capital Advisors LP, its management and minority shareholders. Pure Biofuels del Peru is the third-largest fuels importer in Peru. The Callao terminal has mooring and unloading systems with Panamax vessel capability, storage capacity of approximately 1 million barrels for refined and renewable products, and an eight-bay truck rack for products distribution. The Paita terminal has product storage capacity of 180,000 barrels, with land available for future expansion. 5. Bolivia&mdash;June 8, 2018 Bio Clean Energy S.A. announced that its Bio Petro Biofuels subsidiary has won a contract to supply biodiesel to the Bolivian government-owned Yacimientos Petrol&iacute;feros Fiscales Bolivianos in a public tender process. YPFB provides about 90 percent of the fuel consumed in Bolivia. The contract called for monthly volumes between 1.5 million and 3 million liters for one year, totaling between 18 million and 36 million liters (4.76 million to 9.5 million gallons) for the 12-month period. 6. Jiangsu Province, China&mdash;June 11, 2018 Inventure Renewables announced the successful implementation and nearly year-long operation of its Mixed Super Critical Fluid technology at a Wilmar International processing plant in China. The technology is being used to produce fatty acid methyl esters for oleochemicals and biodiesel from a wide range of vegetable oil feedstocks. 7. Kaslik, Lebanon&mdash;July 16, 2018 The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) and IPT Energy Center signed a memorandum of understanding to install a pilot-scale biodiesel production unit on campus to be fed by used cooking oil. The project will be assessed for its replicability at the national level in coordination with and support from the United Nations Development Programme. The parties intend to lobby for and support mainstream use of biodiesel in Lebanon. 8. Amsterdam, The Netherlands&mdash;July 19, 2018 U.K. biodiesel producer Greenergy announced an agreement with tank terminal operator Oiltanking to purchase an idle biodiesel manufacturing facility located at Oiltanking&rsquo;s site in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam biodiesel plant was built in 2010 to process vegetable oils but was never commissioned. Greenergy planned to retrofit the facility to process waste oils and expand production capacity. 9. Amsterdam, The Netherlands&mdash;July 20, 2018 U.K. biodiesel producer Argent Energy, a subsidiary of John Swire &amp; Sons, announced it was acquiring Simadan Group&rsquo;s biodiesel production, tank storage and cleaning facilities in Amsterdam. The operating plant, Biodiesel Amsterdam, produces 100,000 tons per year (30 MMgy) of tallow-based biodiesel. 10. Amsterdam, The Netherlands&mdash;Sept. 3, 2018 Renewable diesel producer Neste Corp. completed its acquisition of animal fat trader IH Demeter B.V., first announced in May. With a Europe-wide logistical setup, the company, renamed Neste Demeter B.V., is positioned to deliver raw material to Neste&rsquo;s renewable diesel production facilities. 11. Singapore&mdash;Sept. 5, 2018 U.K. biodiesel producer Greenergy announced the acquisition of Singapore-based used cooking oil exporter Rexon Energy. The acquisition will help provide raw materials for its three biodiesel manufacturing operations in Immingham and Teeside on the east coast of England, along with its new Amsterdam-based facility, which is scheduled to begin operating in 2019. 12. La M&egrave;de, France&mdash;Oct. 26, 2018 Total S.A. announced it will delay startup of its renewable diesel plant at a converted oil refinery to Q1 2019. Total originally expected production to start in summer 2018. In 2015, the French oil giant began plans to convert its crude refinery in La M&egrave;de to produce 500,000 tons per year of renewable diesel via Axens&rsquo; Vegan process technology from as much as 650,000 tons of feedstock. 13. Singapore&mdash;Dec. 12, 2018 Neste Corp. announced it will invest $1.6 billion to more than double renewable diesel production capacity in Singapore. Once completed in 2022, combined production capacity at the three Neste renewable diesel plants in the Netherlands, Finland and Singapore will approach 4.5 million tons per year. Author: Ron Kotrba Editor, Biodiesel Magazine 218-745-8347 rkotrba@bbiinternational.com

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Biodiesel Magazine provides a visual of prominent project 
development activities over the past year. 

A Geospatial View of Biodiesel Activity

Not unlike many small-scale biodiesel production facilities, San Diego-based New Leaf Biofuel has struggled to survive the turbulent biodiesel market over the past decade. One major difference, however, is that this vertically integrated biodiesel company has Jennifer Case at the helm. Case, co-founder, co-owner and CEO of the 5 MMgy New Leaf Biofuel, is a Pepperdine University School of Law graduate and former attorney who never gives up. She is not afraid to roll up her sleeves, make tough decisions and get dirty. As a Los Angeles-based litigator in the mid-2000s, Case&rsquo;s former roommate told her of a business she was starting in San Diego to turn used cooking oil (UCO) into biodiesel. Case&rsquo;s friend inquired whether the startup could secure Case as an attorney to help get the business off the ground. After a presentation to the law firm, the main partner pulled Case aside and told her the company didn&rsquo;t need a lawyer, it needed a business plan. &ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t see the vision,&rdquo; Case tells Biodiesel Magazine. The deflated Case put in her notice to quit and moved to San Diego, invested in the new business and became a partner, all the while expecting to return to practicing law once the startup was established. She had already been dating Tyler Case, who lived in San Diego and would eventually become her husband. &ldquo;I had no idea that what I was about to engage in would be such a huge undertaking,&rdquo; Case says. After bringing in more partners, including Tyler, and raising more money, the list of creditors grew. &ldquo;At that point we had five co-owners,&rdquo; Case says. New Leaf bought a skid-mounted system with a nameplate capacity of 500,000 gallons a year from a company based in Europe. The system was designed for rapeseed oil but when Case explained New Leaf wanted to use the system for processing UCO, the company added an acid esterification unit on the frontend. Case says to make this happen, New Leaf co-owners were raising more and more money from family members and friends cashing in their 401Ks, remortgaging their houses and maxing out credit cards. With additional help from a state grant and city loan, the European system was secured and work began to get it operational. &ldquo;The system didn&rsquo;t work like they said it would,&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;Everything the sulfuric acid touched deteriorated.&rdquo; Then, in 2008, as if things couldn&rsquo;t get any worse, the market crashed. &ldquo;We spent 2009 rebuilding the system and fighting with [the provider],&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;It was very stressful and difficult. It took years to get the system working right and a lot of reengineering.&rdquo; After a long battle with the provider, a settlement was reached and ties were severed. It was now on New Leaf alone to make the system work. And this wasn&rsquo;t easy. &ldquo;The PLC code was written entirely in a foreign language, so anytime we wanted to adjust the code to add a tank or a pump, or add minutes to settling, it was all in a language none of us knew. So one of our guys had to learn this language basically just to rework the code. To this day, the code is still in this language.&rdquo; During this time, a second state grant application was submitted and approved to triple production from 500,000 gallons to 1.5 MMgy. &ldquo;We were in massive trouble,&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;We owed money to everyone. It was so stressful. I said, &lsquo;This isn&rsquo;t working. We don&rsquo;t have any money.&rsquo; I thought I&rsquo;d just go back to being a lawyer, but in the post-market crash, everyone said, &lsquo;Unless you&rsquo;re practicing bankruptcy law, no one is hiring lawyers.&rsquo;&rdquo; Her former roommate who conceived the idea to start the company had a baby and took a leave of absence. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s when I stepped in as CEO,&rdquo; Case says.
&ldquo;We still owed a lot of people a lot of money,&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;People that took out 401K loans still hadn&rsquo;t been paid back. It seemed like every time we started to feel like we might be turning a corner on making money in this industry, things would change.&rdquo; Amid lapsed tax credits, delayed federal Renewable Fuel Standard regulations and a court-embattled state Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the tough times only got tougher. &ldquo;As the industry matured, we were just too small,&rdquo; she says. In 2012, New Leaf wrote another state grant application and got it, this time to expand from 1.5 to 5 MMgy. &ldquo;The cost difference between us and the next closest guy customers could buy gallons from was big,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;We needed to lower our prices. We were in a constant state of needing to expand to lower our margins. It was really stressful for everyone.&rdquo; All the partners except Tyler wanted out. &ldquo;The only people who were motivated to chase better margins were me and Tyler,&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;After the 2012 grant, we put the company up for sale. We spent much of 2013 trying to sell it. Ultimately it didn&rsquo;t happen. In 2014, we were in massive trouble again. It was bad. The tax credit had lapsed again, and this was the same year the U.S. EPA was backlogged on its RFS rules. So we had all this preexisting financial stress and these new stressors were layered on top if it.&rdquo; In 2014, New Leaf and Baker Commodities began negotiations. &ldquo;By June, we still didn&rsquo;t know if the sale was going to go through, and if we continued to run three shifts a day we&rsquo;d run out of money by August and not be able to pay our employees anymore,&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;But if we cut production down to one shift a day and only made biodiesel from the UCO we collected without buying any more, we could make our cash last &lsquo;til January. By that time we would know if the tax credit would pass or not, and if that happened, we would get a few million dollars. So we just had to survive &lsquo;til then.&rdquo; The pending layoffs and dissolution of the former partnerships ate away at Case. &ldquo;It was the worst time of my life,&rdquo; she says. In September 2014, the deal with Baker closed. Baker bought out all of New Leaf&rsquo;s partners, which equaled 80 percent of the business. &ldquo;Tyler and I stayed on to run the business,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;Our partners got what they wanted, and Tyler and I got what we wanted, which was to build this business to be the best thing it could possibly be. Funny enough, the tax credit passed and we had a cash infusion. We would have survived anyway, but partnering with Baker was the best thing for us.&rdquo; Doug Smith, the vice president of R&amp;D and quality control at Baker Commodities, has roots in biodiesel back to the early 1990s. He later joined Baker Commodities, a family-owned rendering company, and served as a board member at the National Biodiesel Board. &ldquo;We wanted to be in the biodiesel business,&rdquo; Smith says of Baker. &ldquo;We found out New Leaf was considering selling its plant. Jennifer and I had several conversations, and one thing led to another and it just seemed like a good fit. They&rsquo;re a grassroots business with hard-working, dedicated, good personalities. So after long negotiations, we decided Baker would acquire a controlling majority of the business at New Leaf. Since then, they&rsquo;ve been wonderful to work with, and it&rsquo;s been profitable with the way that Jennifer and Tyler run it.&rdquo; Smith says he believes the acquisition has breathed new life into the plant. But the benefits weren&rsquo;t one-sided. Smith says the grease collection accounts that came with New Leaf&rsquo;s acquisition helped the decision-making process, but it was not a critical factor. &ldquo;The fact that they knew how to collect grease and were doing it showed us they had the ability to conduct business, so we weren&rsquo;t getting into a company that was entirely green, or raw as you might say,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They already had an idea of how to run the business. The way we acquired New Leaf showed that Baker has intentions do something right for the environment and the public,&rdquo; above and beyond its established role as a grease recycler. &ldquo;Baker has a really good reputation as a rendering company, so with that added clout, this new life we helped infuse into New Leaf has sparked a lot more energy into the plant to go out and get more grants to produce more&mdash;it gave them the ability to say, &lsquo;Hey, we are in good standing with a great company, and everything we do is above board, and we&rsquo;re profitable.&rsquo;&rdquo; Despite owning 80 percent of New Leaf, Smith says Baker is not interested in running the day-to-day operations of the company. He says Tyler and Jennifer live and breathe biodiesel as co-founders of New Leaf, and anyone that would want to come in and take that away from them just because they have a controlling interest in the company would be crazy. &ldquo;New Leaf is their creation,&rdquo; Smith says. &ldquo;Just like parents giving birth to a child, they want to see that child grow up do the best that they can. I look at Jennifer and Tyler as being caretakers, parents and guardians of that division. They know what they&rsquo;re doing, and I know they&rsquo;re doing everything they can to further it along and make it better. They&rsquo;re good, hard-working people and they treat their employees and the community well.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;
In early 2017, New Leaf won another state grant to help the company expand from 5 to 12 MMgy. &ldquo;This is a consolidation period in the biodiesel industry,&rdquo; Case says. &ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t continue to expand, we will get left behind.&rdquo; The original plan for expansion to 12 MMgy was to size everything down and move from batch to continuous flow on the same footprint-limited site where the plant has operated for more than a decade. &ldquo;2017 was our most profitable year,&rdquo; Case says, adding that the thought of tearing the plant down and retooling it with technology she didn&rsquo;t know would work was scary. &ldquo;Then, instead of that idea, we thought maybe we should build a skid-mounted system off-site to drop in through the roof when ready,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;We could pull out our current system and the three additional reactors we installed over the years, and then we&rsquo;d have a 5 MMgy system we could sell or install at another site.&rdquo;
Case says the company was moving forward with this idea when she learned the neighboring business across the street was moving, and New Leaf had the opportunity to acquire the building. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big warehouse and we were excited about it,&rdquo; she says. New Leaf bought the building and Case says it now made more sense to build out to 12 MMgy across the street. &ldquo;When we made that decision, we had to redo all our plans, permits, contracts and work on a new layout,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve redone these plans three times. We&rsquo;re starting from square one. It&rsquo;s a blank slate, which is good for design but it takes a lot more work with the city.&rdquo; Lucas Altic, vice president of operations for New Leaf, started with the company in 2015 as plant manager after working in the industry since 2005. He tells Biodiesel Magazine that even though New Leaf&rsquo;s expansion details are currently in flux as the company finalizes its new plans, Phase 1 of the expansion is already complete. &ldquo;We added 100,000 gallons of storage tanks on the existing site,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We already had 60,000 gallons of existing storage, so on top of that we added five biodiesel storage tanks and one technical-grade glycerin tank that we&rsquo;re currently using for UCO storage. We have also added a terminal automation system that enables faster loadouts.&rdquo; Altic says the company will add more new tanks for feedstock storage across the street. One of Altic&rsquo;s first tasks when he started at New Leaf was gaining BQ-9000 accreditation, the gold standard of quality in the biodiesel industry. &ldquo;We were fully certified as a BQ-90000 producer by the end of 2015,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;After that, we got into trading of fuel and brought partners to help do trading under the New Leaf brand.&rdquo; The company then achieved BQ-9000 marketer status. While New Leaf&rsquo;s roots were based in community-scale production, buying grease locally and selling to local jobbers, Altic says Case knew BQ-9000 was an absolute necessity. &ldquo;As a small mom-and-pop biodiesel program, you do what you need to do, but not much beyond that,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;New Leaf had to get into the mindset of a bigger company with a bigger mentality. Going to BQ-9000 made us really look at processes and think about procedures to focus on quality. New Leaf has always made good ASTM-quality fuel, but BQ-9000 certification helped take us to the next level to be taken seriously. It changed a lot of mindsets and opened up new business opportunities. It really changed our ability to sell fuel and, as a result, almost everything about the company.&rdquo; Since achieving BQ-9000 producer and marketer status, New Leaf now primarily sells its biodiesel to large obligated parties and terminals. Case says in the midst of redoing paperwork with the city for the expansion to 12 MMgy, the California Energy Commission announced another grant opportunity. Case says she is doing her best to secure this grant to further expand from 12 to 18 MMgy, despite not having built out to 12 MMgy yet. She says this may be the last type of grant funding the CEC will do for biodiesel as the legislators and regulators duke it out to determine what the clean energy future of California will look like. &ldquo;Long story short, they favor electricity,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;Their main goal is to get all LCFS credits from electricity and everyone else plays second fiddle.&rdquo; Ultimately, Case says never giving up and having the fortitude to make the really hard decisions, such as the layoff in 2014&mdash;coupled with the decision to partner with Baker&mdash;are what has allowed New Leaf to persevere. &ldquo;If we hadn&rsquo;t done one or both of those things, I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d be here,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;The layoff was not an easy decision. There were definitely disagreements with the partners. It was a tough call but I thank God I had the [courage] to do it.&rdquo; She says the biodiesel industry is still a rollercoaster, but it&rsquo;s a lot easier being on that ride with people who share the same vision. &ldquo;This industry, and our business, is ever-changing,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always one thing after another. I feel like we&rsquo;re a never-ending startup.&rdquo; Altic agrees. &ldquo;We still call ourselves a startup more than 10 years later,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We still have that scrappy, do-it-yourself attitude. It&rsquo;s part of our identity.&rdquo;&nbsp; Author: Ron Kotrba Editor, Biodiesel Magazine 218-745-8347 rkotrba@bbiinternational.com

CAREER CHANGE:  In the mid-2000s, Jennifer Case left Los Angeles where she practiced law and set out for San Diego to help a friend establish the used cooking oil collection and biodiesel production company New Leaf Biofuel.

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Armed with a scrappy, do-it-yourself attitude, New Leaf Biofuel's success is a testament to its—and the biodiesel industry's—perseverance. 

The Perpetually Expanding Veteran Startup

Biodiesel is good for livestock, too. American Soybean Association farmer-leader Rob Shaffer and the National Biodiesel Board&rsquo;s senior feedstock advisor Alan Weber were featured on the National Cattlemen&rsquo;s Beef Association&rsquo;s program Cattlemen to Cattlemen recently. The two discussed biodiesel&rsquo;s positive effect on livestock by increasing the value of animal fat and decreasing soymeal costs for livestock producers. As both a soybean farmer and beef producer, Shaffer provided his perspective on how a growing biodiesel market positively impacts the beef industry. &ldquo;Everybody is trying to increase their profits, lower their risks, and also lower their costs, and one way to do that is through biodiesel,&rdquo; Shaffer said. Biodiesel is made from a diverse mix of feedstocks including recycled cooking oil, soybean oil, and one that is commonly forgotten&mdash;animal fats. It is estimated that 13 percent of biodiesel in the U.S. is made from animal fats. &ldquo;Animal fats and livestock producers are really important to the biodiesel industry,&rdquo; Weber said. &ldquo;Last year about 1.8 billion pounds of animal fats were used to produce biomass-based diesel in the U.S.&rdquo;
By creating a new market for soybean oil, biodiesel has increased availability of protein-rich meal more cost-effectively. Demand for biodiesel increases the demand for soybean oil, boosting the value of soybeans and reducing the price of soybean meal fed to poultry and livestock. As more soybean oil is processed for biodiesel production, more soybean meal is available for animal feed. &ldquo;The question is, who gets the benefits?&rdquo; Weber asked. &ldquo;We found price impacts were spread throughout the supply chain. For example, in my home state of Missouri, a commercial cow-calf operator could see a value of $20 every time he took a steer or heifer to the sale barn.&rdquo; Biodiesel decreases soy protein meal prices by $21 per ton. &ldquo;The beef industry alone probably paid $40 million less for feed last year because of biodiesel,&rdquo; Weber said. When asked for final thoughts to share with his fellow producers, Shaffer stated, &ldquo;Biodiesel helps their bottom line, creates U.S. jobs, helps taxes &hellip; it&rsquo;s a win-win for the cattle industry and soybean producers.&rdquo; To have NBB representatives on Cattlemen to Cattlemen provided an excellent opportunity to share biodiesel&rsquo;s benefits to a large agriculture and livestock audience and highlight NBB&rsquo;s successful efforts to strengthen relationships with key stakeholder groups in the animal agriculture industry. To see the interview with Shaffer and Weber, please visit NBB&rsquo;s YouTube channel.

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American Soybean Association farmer-leader Rob Shaffer and the National Biodiesel Board's senior feedstock advisor Alan Weber were featured on the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's program Cattlemen to Cattlemen recently. 

Biodiesel Benefits Animal Agriculture, Too

As a member-driven and member-focused trade association, the National Biodiesel Board welcomed its membership for the annual fall meeting, Nov. 12-14, to focus on critical policy initiatives and move the biodiesel industry forward. During the meeting, the membership elected representatives from the industry to serve on the governing board to help the development and success of biodiesel. &ldquo;The National Biodiesel Board is the sole organization representing American-made biodiesel&rsquo;s entire value chain and renewable diesel interests,&rdquo; said NBB CEO Donnell Rehagen. &ldquo;Our strong team of leaders from all sectors of the industry continue to move this American-made fuel forward. We look forward to continuing our efforts to secure strong markets for America&rsquo;s advanced biofuel and the nearly 64,000 jobs we represent.&rdquo; NBB members voted to fill eight board member spots for two-year terms: &bull; Troy Alberts, Ag Environmental Products &bull; Rob Shaffer, American Soybean Association &bull; Jeff Lynn, Illinois Soybean Association &bull; Tim Keaveney, Lake Erie Biofuels DBA Hero BX &bull; Mike Rath, Darling Ingredients Inc. &bull; Greg Anderson, Nebraska Soybean Board &bull; Robert Morton, Newport Biodiesel LLC &bull; Tom Brooks, Western Dubuque Biodiesel LLC Kent Engelbrecht, Ron Heck, Ryan Pederson, Harry Simpson, Paul Soanes, Robert Stobaugh and Chad Stone continue to serve on the board. The board also voted in the new slate of officers with Kent Engelbrecht returning as chairman, Chad Stone as vice chairman, Ryan Pederson as treasurer and Ron Heck as secretary. The NBB governing board reflects the wide range of member companies in the biodiesel industry from feedstock operations to producers.

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NBB Members Elect New Board Leadership 

It&rsquo;s been a long battle this year for the biodiesel industry and the members we support. Late in 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce granted the government of Argentina&rsquo;s request and initiated &ldquo;changed circumstances&rdquo; reviews of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Argentine biodiesel companies. NBB&rsquo;s Fair Trade Coalition urged the commerce department to reject Argentina&rsquo;s request and opposed initiation of the reviews, which could result in resetting the duty rates calculated only months ago. Just last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously determined that U.S. biodiesel producers were injured by biodiesel imports from Argentina, and the commerce department confirmed that the harm directly resulted from massive subsidies provided by the government of Argentina and huge margins of dumping by its biodiesel industry. The commerce department&rsquo;s subsequent orders established final countervailing duty rates ranging from 71.45 to 72.28 percent and antidumping duty rates ranging from 60.44 to 86.41 percent for Argentine biodiesel. These duties were calculated and applied by the commerce department to level the playing field for our domestic producers. The NBB Fair Trade Coalition filed its original petitions back in March 2017 seeking relief to address a flood of subsidized and dumped imports from Argentina and Indonesia that resulted in market share losses and depressed prices for domestic producers. Biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia surged by 464 percent from 2014-&rsquo;16, taking over 18 percent of market share from U.S. manufacturers. The key issue for us was not only the surging levels of imported biodiesel, but that these artificially low-priced imports prevented our domestic producers from earning adequate returns on their substantial investments. The limited returns also stifled the ability of U.S. producers to make further investments to build and serve a growing market. Once the commerce department leveled the playing field, domestic biodiesel producers stepped up their efforts, put substantial underutilized production capacity back to work, and boosted homegrown biodiesel production. In these circumstances, it is a complete mystery why the commerce department would open a path to a resumption of unfairly traded imports. This action jeopardizes our industry&rsquo;s progress and the American jobs our industry supports, and it places added pressure on our nation&rsquo;s farmers, who are already suffering from low commodity prices and uncertain trade conditions. With these things in mind, we believe the commerce department has no basis for initiating this unprecedented review and we have told them so. Changed circumstances reviews are extremely rare as the very nature of the duties applied in these circumstances are a recognition of the severe harm a domestic industry has incurred over a substantial period of time. These duties were set to remain in place for a period of five years to allow the domestic industry time to recover from the harm caused. Because these duties have been in place for just a few months, that anticipated recovery period has not been recognized.&nbsp; The commerce department&rsquo;s changed circumstances review process typically takes up to 270 days, meaning a final determination could come as late as August. In the meantime, the duties as established remain in place. The commerce department has indicated it will publish preliminary findings from the review and solicit public comment before issuing a final determination. President Trump has consistently stated support for the U.S. biofuels industry and strong enforcement of U.S. trade laws. The administration shouldn&rsquo;t act contrary to the president&rsquo;s commitments. Soybean growers have seen large global markets closed to them. The U.S. EPA has cut the domestic biodiesel industry market by more than 300 million gallons by handing out RFS exemptions to every refiner that asked. And now, the commerce department is considering undoing what it just did a few months ago.&nbsp; The department shouldn&rsquo;t put salt in the wound with actions that further threaten the viability of U.S. producers and farmers in favor of Argentina&rsquo;s agricultural interests. Our team, along with the American Soybean Association and National Renderers Association, wrote a letter to President Trump urging him to ensure that the commerce department undertake a rigorous, comprehensive and transparent review before considering any adjustments to the duty rates it established this year. Together, we believe to do anything less would strike a devastating blow to U.S. biodiesel producers and soybean farmers. We will continue to work collectively to advocate for American biodiesel and soybean producers. Donnell Rehagen CEO National Biodiesel Board

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National Biodiesel Board CEO Donnell Rehagen discusses the disconcerting circumstances surrounding the U.S. Department of Commerce's initiation of "changed circumstances" reviews of recently imposed tariffs on U.S. imports of Argentine biodiesel.

NBB Fighting to Protect the Biodiesel Industry from Trade Decisions 

Biodiesel produced by Renewable Energy Group Inc. and purified with CynerSorb&mdash;a surface-functionalized diatomaceous earth from Imerys&mdash;helped skipper Phil Sharp of the U.K. take third place out of dozens of participants in this year&rsquo;s Route du Rhum yacht race in the Class40 category. The solo transatlantic race began in early November at St. Malo in Brittany, France, and ended at Pointe-&agrave;-Pitre on the island of Guadeloupe, part of the French West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. Sharp&rsquo;s sailboat, the Imerys Clean Energy, features a suite of renewable energies, including solar photovoltaic, a hydrogenerator and B100 for auxiliary power. Imerys also provided abrasives on the solar panels installed on the deck, which offer anti-slip properties and increase their durability. Winning ocean races while emitting zero carbon emissions is Sharp&rsquo;s mission carried out through the Energy Challenge&mdash;a high-performance ocean racing project centered on energy efficiency. The project focuses on demonstrating the performance advantages of clean technologies. The South Carolina Biomass Council held an award ceremony Nov. 15 on the grounds of its 2018 Biomass Project of the Year Award recipient, Green Energy Biofuel, in Warrenville, South Carolina. Green Energy Biofuel won the award in recognition of its new GEB3 plant, an idled 40 MMgy biodiesel plant that was acquired and retooled by Green Energy Biofuel. According to co-owner Bio Joe Renwick, while the new facility will be able to produce biodiesel, it will mainly process raw used cooking oil into high-quality feedstock for distribution to biodiesel producers along the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic regions. SCBC chairman Crad Jaynes and fellow award winner Tim Adams of the South Carolina Forestry Commission, who won the 2018 Advocate of the Year Award, in addition to State Rep. Ronnie Young, and Green Energy Biofuel staff, friends and family were in attendance. A tour of the GEB3 facility and a catered lunch followed. Crown Iron Works has broken ground on its new global headquarters to support the 140-year-old company&rsquo;s commitment to growth and innovation. Crown&rsquo;s new 68,000 square-foot facility in Blaine, Minnesota, will accommodate a 37 percent increase in global headquarters staff and fuel technological advancements for the company and its customers through its state-of-the-art innovation center featuring a 15,000 square-foot pilot plant&mdash;triple the size of its current pilot plant. The official ribbon cutting took place Oct. 31. Crown&rsquo;s global headquarters and innovation center will serve as a world-class resource to leading global manufacturers within the oilseed processing industry. It is designed to harness the creativity and ingenuity of Crown&rsquo;s team to develop innovative solutions and technologies for customers around the world. Mortenson Construction is developing the $12 million facility with a $1.2 million business subsidy from the city of Blaine to promote economic development in the community. BQ-9000-certified biodiesel marketer and distributor Targray has opened a new terminal in West Fargo, North Dakota. Targray&rsquo;s Fargo Biodiesel Terminal, a 24/7 fuel distribution center, serves wholesale fuel buyers throughout the Fargo-Moorhead area. The new terminal will provide local fuel retailers, distributors and fleet managers with greater access to biodiesel. &ldquo;The Fargo terminal is an important addition to our national biodiesel distribution network,&rdquo; said Samy Cozma, a biofuels trader with Targray. Cozma added that the new terminal would also help address the increased demand for biodiesel in Northwest Minnesota, stemming from the state&rsquo;s recently amended mandate. On May 1, 2018, Minnesota began requiring that all diesel fuel sold in the state during the &ldquo;summer months&rdquo;&mdash;April through September&mdash;contain at least 20 percent biodiesel. The minimum content for the remainder of the year is 5 percent. Targray is one of the largest, fastest-growing suppliers of biodiesel in the U.S. Neste Corp. and specialty chemicals company Clariant have signed an agreement to partner in developing and making new sustainable material solutions accessible to a variety of industries. The companies will start replacing fossil-based ethylene and propylene used in Clariant&rsquo;s hot-melt adhesives with monomers derived from Neste&rsquo;s renewable diesel. Later, Clariant and Neste will develop other sustainable additive solutions derived from renewable raw materials for plastics and coatings applications, which will help other companies increase their biobased offerings. Gloria Glang, a vice president at Clariant, said, &ldquo;For the society, our environment and future generations, it is our responsibility to improve sustainability performance and reduce our carbon footprint and dependency on crude oil. As a result of Clariant&rsquo;s partnership with Neste, we can progress our goal to become a true sustainable solution provider in the additive market.&rdquo; In October, Woolley Fuel celebrated its 10th year as a distribution location providing high-quality biodiesel to consumers across New Jersey. Woolley Fuel was started in 1924 by two brothers Herbert and Norman W. Woolley Sr. Their desire was to start a coal company similar to their father&rsquo;s and found potential in Maplewood, New Jersey. The brothers built an energy company that is now approaching its 95th year and is still evolving. Woolley Fuel President Norman Woolley Jr. created a whole new market when he made his company the first in the state to offer biodiesel to the public. Woolley Fuel started with just B5 blends and now due to demand is selling B30 to customers. Along with biodiesel, Woolley is also a major player in the Bioheat sector, providing heating oil to northeastern New Jersey residents. Heating oil has been a part of the Woolley family since nearly the beginning. For 90 years, Woolley has delivered top-notch oil and plans to continue this business model for many more years to come.

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Business Briefs

The U.S. EPA&rsquo;s Renewable Fuel Standard provides incentives for marketers to increase margins and be more competitive. Since its inception, the RFS has generally been a very successful program as blenders across the U.S. improved margins. If current legislative proposals move forward, marketers could witness another 13 years worth of similar incentives. But renewable identification number (RIN) value volatility&mdash;driven by political rumor, speculation and poor departmental management of small refinery exemptions&mdash;as well as a continually lapsing IRS blender&rsquo;s tax credit make for difficult times for downstream blenders. At times, the economic risk appears to be too high, and blending must stop and wait for better days. The variables that make blending economics questionable at times, however, are the same variables that can give blenders hope that market conditions will get better. The downstream transportation fuel industry is no stranger to risk, as fuel pricing ebbs and flows daily. Biofuel producers typically don&rsquo;t understand that blenders and marketers live in a world where they are selling at a loss one day and hoping for gains the next. This willingness to take on risk is what keeps the biodiesel industry moving forward during periods of policy uncertainty. Today&rsquo;s blenders must intelligently follow all the market variables and assess the overall costs and benefits of blending on a regular basis. Tracking RIN sales alone is simply not enough as RIN values are built into the price per gallon, and as potential IRS tax credits are &ldquo;shared.&rdquo; In an ultracompetitive fuels market, these are the things that keep us awake at night. Additional costs associated with transportation, stoppage fees, and special storage and blending equipment also must be minimized.
The good news is blenders that take a more prescriptive and hands-on approach can still increase margins in excess of 5 cents per gallon. The final RFS standards for 2019 (and 2020 for biomass-based diesel) give some relief, if not assurance that the current EPA administration is attempting to play by the rulebook. The final rule increased advanced biofuel volumes to 4.92 billion gallons for 2019, up from 4.29 billion gallons in 2018. The final rule also increased the 2020 requirement for biodiesel to 2.43 billion gallons, up 330 million gallons from the 2.1 billion gallons required this year and in 2019 (biodiesel volumes are set a year in advance of the other biofuels). Both of these create opportunities to improve margins by blending more biodiesel. A number of factors are in play, however, that stand to have profound effects on biodiesel blending. For example, how the administration manages the &ldquo;reset&rdquo; and &ldquo;set&rdquo; rules&mdash;both of which are to occur between now and 2021. Both give EPA the opportunity to consider the impacts of new renewable diesel production currently being planned and hopefully adjust pertinent renewable fuel volume obligations (RVO) upward. In addition to activities at EPA, Congress also is considering legislation that would enhance renewable fuel blending opportunities. Two legislative bills have been published that will create additional complexities but give the biodiesel model significant support. The first establishes a multiyear phaseout of the IRS blender&rsquo;s tax credit over a seven-year period. The phaseout would allow for the consistency and transparency needed for industry to invest in biodiesel production and retail markets. The phaseout also allows the RIN credit to adjust accordingly to assure incentives are maintained. The second proposal would require biodiesel, along with advanced and cellulosic fuels, be given definitive goals out to 2032 (ethanol would be removed from the RFS and supported, rather, by new high-octane standards). If passed, this legislation would more than guide EPA during its RFS &ldquo;set,&rdquo; which requires the agency to establish RFS goals post-2022. If legislative measures such as these do not move forward, and if EPA fails to develop a progressive RFS, states could take matters into their own hands and seriously consider low carbon fuel standards. This would be especially likely in states heavily invested in agriculture. Managing biodiesel blending and marketing requires attention to detail and an understanding of present and future variables. Additional policies, intended to increase the volumes of low carbon fuels, will undoubtedly create additional levels of complexity. The policy solutions above, while good, won&rsquo;t make doing business simpler or more streamlined. Just as they give petroleum marketers the incentives necessary to continue blending and investing in alternative fuels, they also will create more variables to track and report&mdash;all of which can lead to more tax remittance and refund snares to get caught in, as well as more RIN credit marketing scenarios to manage. NATSO and its Alternative Fuels Council are working diligently to ensure that fuel marketers have the resources needed to manage these complex requirements and market uncertainties by providing the tools necessary to meet federal and state requirements, and to increase the value of incentives for blenders. Author: Jeff Hove Vice President, Alternative Fuels Council 703-739-8560 jhove@natsoaltfuels.com

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Jeff Hove, vice president of NATSO's Alternative Fuels Council, provides perspective on current political, regulatory and market events relating to biodiesel blending, and how a myriad of potential changes will affect downstream operators.  

Alternative Fuels Council Offers Biodiesel Strategy

The adaptive, innovative heart and soul of this industry is exemplified in the collection of stories we bring you in this edition of the magazine. Moreover, the diversity of those we collectively refer to as &ldquo;the biodiesel industry&rdquo; is seen throughout the issue, from small-scale producers such as New Leaf Biofuel to major international players like World Energy, and everything in between&mdash;including vendors and service providers that supply these producers with the essentials to navigate the market and make quality product. Since this year&rsquo;s National Biodiesel Conference &amp; Expo is back in San Diego, it felt right&mdash;and long overdue&mdash;to profile San Diego&rsquo;s own New Leaf Biofuel. Led by CEO Jennifer Case, New Leaf has endured the difficulties of this market, thanks in large part to Case&rsquo;s inability to give up, her fortitude in making tough judgement calls, and the company&rsquo;s 2014 partnership with Baker Commodities. After extensive interviews with Case, New Leaf&rsquo;s VP of operations Lucas Altic and Doug Smith of Baker Commodities, I penned &ldquo;The Perpetually Expanding Veteran Startup&rdquo; on page 14. While I think the story title captures the essence of the tale, the details are not to be overlooked&mdash;financial pitfalls, troublesome technology, terrible market conditions, a deep-seated willingness to survive and the ability to make tough calls in order to do so, are laid out on pages 14-16. We also bring you our largest spotlight feature article yet since debuting the section in summer 2017, profiling the products, services and technologies of nine companies dedicated to this sector. A common theme among these companies is their cutting-edge spirit, which is reflected in each of their offerings. Check out &ldquo;Biodiesel&rsquo;s Cutting Edge&rdquo; on page 18. Next we move to &ldquo;World Energy&rsquo;s Big Year&rdquo; on page 30. In 2018, the company took its growth plan to a new level. It acquired Canadian biodiesel company Biox Corp. and its two plants, along with gaining sole ownership over the 90 MMgy Texas plant it had acquired jointly with Biox. Just days later, World Energy acquired renewable diesel and biojet fuel&nbsp; producer AltAir and related assets in Paramount, California. It then negotiated a deal to buy the former Ecogy Biofuels plant, an idled 40 MMgy biodiesel production facility in Estill, South Carolina. There&rsquo;s much more to the story, however, so be sure to read about it within. In addition, with significant help from our graphic designer Raquel Boushee, we profile notable activity in the industry in a graphical format on pages 34-37 in &ldquo;A Geospatial View of Biodiesel Activity.&rdquo; We lay out dozens of North American and international business developments that have taken place over the past year, providing a solid snapshot of the impressive activity seen in this sector in any given year. Also be sure to check out the National Biodiesel Board&rsquo;s four-page section, Inside NBB, which is led by Donnell Rehagen&rsquo;s column, &ldquo;NBB Fighting to Protect the Biodiesel Industry from Trade Decisions&rdquo; on page 10. Last, don&rsquo;t overlook our two columns, one by Marc Kellens of Desmet Ballestra on page 6 in Talking Point, and the other by Jeff Hove of NATSO&rsquo;s Alternative Fuels Council in a new Downstream column on page 7. We extend a special thank you to all our advertisers and contributors for helping make this great edition&mdash;our first print issue of 2019&mdash;possible. Here&rsquo;s to another prosperous year! Author: Ron Kotrba Editor Biodiesel Magazine rkotrba@bbiinternational.com

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In his Editor's Note from the Winter 2019 print edition of Biodiesel Magazine, editor Ron Kotrba provides an overview of the issue's contents including several feature articles, columns and more. 

2019 Winter Issue

Business Briefs

Business Briefs

Columns

NBB Fighting to Protect the Biodiesel Industry from Trade Decisions

Alternative Fuels Council Offers Biodiesel Strategy

Adapt and Innovate

Featured

A Geospatial View of Biodiesel Activity

The Perpetually Expanding Veteran Startup

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Business Briefs

Business Briefs

Columns

NBB Fighting to Protect the Biodiesel Industry from Trade Decisions

Alternative Fuels Council Offers Biodiesel Strategy

Adapt and Innovate

Featured

A Geospatial View of Biodiesel Activity

The Perpetually Expanding Veteran Startup

2019 Winter Issue