The Renewable Fuels Association has released a 10-page report summarizing 2018 ethanol export and import data and highlighting key facts and trends related to global ethanol trade.
The federal Biomass Research and Development (BR&D) Board unveiled a multi-agency strategy March 5 to accelerate innovative technologies that harness the nation's biomass resources for affordable biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower.
U.S. ethanol exports reached a record 1.7 billion gallons in 2018, according to data released by the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service on March 6. When compared to 2017, ethanol exports increased by 23 percent.
Gevo Inc. and HCS Group have entered into a long-term, definitive, binding and bankable renewable isooctane purchase and sale agreement. The isooctane will be used in high-end applications, such as high purity solvents and specialty fuels.
The USDA has released its Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production report with data from December, reporting that corn consumed for fuel alcohol was up slightly from the previous month, but down year-over-year.
USGC Regional Director for Southeast Asia Manuel Sanchez and USGC Vietnam Country Representative Tran Trong Nghia witnessed the first bulk shipment of DDGS made to Vietnam under new fumigation protocols as it was discharged in January.
FROM THE MARCH ISSUE: Many plants decrease pH to treat bacterial contamination in fermentation, but this can cause numerous other issues.
Randy Ives—a longtime agribusiness delegate to theUSGC and a key figure in the organization's development of DDGS and ethanol market development programs—was honored last week with the Council's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Legislation introduced this month in the U.S. House of Representatives that aims to support the development and demonstration of carbon capture and removal technologies could benefit ethanol producers, according to Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill.
The USDA recently released its Grain Crushings and Co-Product Production report with data for November, indicating corn use for fuel ethanol was down during the month. Sorghum consumption for fuel ethanol, however, was up.
Tom Sleight, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Grains Council since 2012, will retire in the summer following the appointment of his successor, the Council announced at the organization's meeting this week in Cartagena, Colombia.
According to the USGC, South Korea has been buying U.S. grains in all forms at explosive rates since KORUS went into effect in 2012. Since that time, Korea has set or broken sales records for purchases of ethanol, DDGS, corn and sorghum.
Aemetis Inc. announced Feb. 7 that it has initiated the permitting and construction phase of its multi-dairy renewable biomethane digester cluster. The project will produce RNG will be used in ethanol production or as a vehicle fuel.
Fluid Quip Process Technologies has completed the installation and startup of its patented Selective Grind Technology at the 150 million gallon per year CHS ethanol facility located in Rochelle, Illinois.
A University of Saskatchewan research team's quest to extract protein from thin stillage at Saskatchewan's ethanol plants has yielded something far more valuable—a compound used in many countries to slow cognition loss in Alzheimer's patients.
Poet has entered the asphalt market with its newest green alternative to fossil-fuel products. Poet's Jive is a proprietary corn-oil-based product now being used by construction companies across the U.S. to modify or rejuvenate asphalt in roads.
Gevo Inc. recently announced it has developed a proprietary catalytic process to convert low-value fusel oils into renewable isoprene. Fusel oils are a mixture of alcohols that are produced as a byproduct from fermentation processes.
Gevo Inc. recently made two announcements regarding its efforts to expand the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company supplied its fuel to an airport in California and signed on to an existing coalition that aims to expand the use of SAF.
Attis Industries Inc. has announced a partnership with Iowa State University to develop carbon fibers for use in a wide variety of applications derived entirely or predominately from lignin produced at Attis' planned biorefineries.
Attis Industries has announced plans to purchase a 85 MMgy corn ethanol plant in Fulton, New York, from Sunoco LP and develop the site into a green tech campus that will produce corn ethanol, cellulosic ethanol and other biomass-based products.
FROM THE FEBRUARY ISSUE: Buckman add to leadership team, and The Andersons expanding use of ICM technology.
A decade since its last purchase of U.S. DDGS, the largest poultry producer in Peru imported U.S. DDGS again following direct engagement by U.S. Grains Council staff in the Western Hemisphere.
The project will initially connect about a dozen dairies to Aemetis' ethanol plant in Keyes, California, with expansion plans to more than three dozen dairies in the local area.
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur a profitable new use for an intractable biorefinery byproduct: lignin.
The USDA recently released the December edition of its Grain Crushing and Co-Products Production report, noting corn use for fuel ethanol was at 462 million bushels in October, up 4 percent from September, but down 2 percent from October 2017.
FROM THE JANUARY ISSUE: Two corn kernel fiber-to-ethanol plants are under construction, stirring hope that the concept is gaining steam.
FROM THE JANUARY ISSUE: Iowa's status as the largest ethanol-producing state means its ethanol economy affects the entire industry.
The USCG's latest quality report indicates near-record yields and good quality for 2018's corn crop.
On Dec. 20, President Trump signed the $867 billion 2018 Farm Bill into law. The bill, titled the Agricultural Improvement Act, or H.R. 2, reauthorizes several Energy Title programs, including REAP and BCAP.
The grain buyers from 35 countries who attended this year's Export Exchange conference in Minneapolis have since reported buying an estimated $403 million worth of coarse grains and coproducts, including DDGS and feed grains.
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