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Price space in between diesel, biodiesel broadens in Germany

Plantations International Information At the end of October, Germany's wholesale cost for biodiesel stood at around 75.60 euro cents per litre (USD $ 3.066 each gallon), omitting power tax obligation, hence going beyond the rate for agricultural diesel (i.e., off-road diesel) by virtually 10 euro cents per litre (USD $ 0.416 per gallon). Baseding on Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI), this was the greatest cost level because June 2014. The substantial surge of biodiesel costs was due to increasing feedstock prices, resilient need of rapeseed methyl esters (RME) before the cold season and high products costs following low water levels of significant rivers. [...]

EU approves biodiesel JV between Wilmar and Fox Petrolifera

Plantations International News Cookies are required to use this site. Please turn them on! This website requires javascript to be enabled. September 14, 2015 The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation a Dutch joint venture (JV) company between the Singaporean Wilmar International and Italian Fox Petrolifera Italiana. The new JV company will produce biodiesel at Fox Petrolifera’s existing biodiesel facility in Italy. Both of the parent companies produce biodiesel and crude and refined glycerine on their own, in addition to selling palm and seed oil for biodiesel production. The Commission concluded that [...]