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Poll: Majority of Nebraskans want to develop biodiesel industry

Plantations International News The majority of Nebraskans who responded to a Rural Nebraska Poll are in favor of developing alternative sources of energy, including biodiesel and ethanol. About 2,000 rural Nebraska residents responded to the poll conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agricultural Economics in partnership with the University of Nebraska Rural Futures Institute. The 20th annual Rural Nebraska Poll, mailed out this spring to about 6,200 randomly selected households in 86 counties, asked questions that included climate change and energy sources. Other questions in the 14-page questionnaire were related to well-being, community, community involvement and education. The respondents’ average [...]

Nidera gains RSB qualification for biodiesel from used cooking oil

Plantations International News Nidera, a farming supply company, has earned the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) certification for the manufacturing as well as trading of biofuels from used cooking oil (UCO). Nidera, based in the Netherlands, runs worldwide as a product service and also remedies company for the worldwide agricultural markets as well as has an active existence in even more compared to 18 countries. The qualification range includes Nidera's investing procedures, and the Biodiesel Aragon plant in Huesca, Spain, where the biodiesel conversion happens. Biodiesel Aragon can transform a wide range of vegetable oils to make a biodiesel that has [...]

EU-based Nidera makes RSB cert for UCO biodiesel

Plantations International Information The sustainability certification fors example Nidera's trading operations as well as its 30 MMgy biodiesel plant in Spain The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials announced Sept. 22 that Rotterdam-based Nidera has actually earned the RSB qualification for production and also investing of biodiesel from utilized cooking oil (UCO). Started in 1920 in Rotterdam as well as currently active in greater than 18 countries, Nidera is a global product solution as well as remedies company for ag markets. The extent of the accreditation consists of Nidera's investing procedures and also its 30 MMgy biodiesel facility in Huesca, Spain, called Biodiesel [...]

EU extends duties on US biodiesel as US imports surge

Plantations International News After a year-long investigation, the EU has extended duties on U.S. biodiesel, a decision that the U.S. biodiesel trade association says is unfair and protectionist. EU Regulations 2015/1518 and 2015/1519 were published Sept. 15 in the EU Official Journal. The regulations extend both the antidumping and antisubsidy duties on U.S. biodiesel for an additional five years. The duties originally went into effect in July 2009 after complaints that subsidized B99 from the U.S. was flooding the European market, causing injury to EU producers. Afterwards, complaints that U.S. producers were circumventing the duties by shipping biodiesel to the EU [...]

Florida Biodiesel delivers biodiesel plant to the Bahamas

Plantations International News Cookies are required to use this site. Please turn them on! This website requires javascript to be enabled. September 18, 2015 Florida Biodiesel has completed the sale of a B-500 biodiesel plant to the Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) in the Bahamas. The biodiesel production equipment, using waste cooking oil as feedstock, will be used to demonstrate green fuel technology and produce biodiesel for the Bahamas. The B-500 plant is economical to operate and will allow the GBPC to produce 1,600 gallons of biodiesel a day. The plant will also be used as a hands-on educational tool to [...]

Advait to turn KFC’s used cooking oil to biodiesel

Plantations International News Cookies are required to use this site. Please turn them on! This website requires javascript to be enabled. September 17, 2015 Advait, a newly established biofuel company, has signed a contract with Yum! Restaurants India, which operates KFC Taco Bell and Pizza Hut in the country, to collect used cooking oil (UCO) from KFC in the Andhra and Telangana region. Advait will convert the collected product into biodiesel or export it to Europe for biodiesel processing. The company is one of the major (UCO) collectors in India and currently collects oil from four South Indian states, and it [...]

Used cooking oil from KFCs in India to be converted to biodiesel

Plantations International News Yum! Restaurants India Pvt Ltd., which operates KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut in India, has signed an agreement with Advait to collect its used cooking oil (UCO) from KFC in the Andhra and Telangana regions.  Yum! is aggressively expanding its presence in India. Advait, the only UCO collector in India certified by the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification, will convert the UCO into biodiesel or export the feedstock for biodiesel processing in Europe. Advait currently collects UCO in four South Indian states.  Advait aims to start collecting UCO throughout India with more than 15 collection yards in [...]

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