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(Breitling) In a landmark new partnership, Breitling will purchase sustainable aviation fuel for all its SWISS flights, with the goal of achieving CO2 neutrality on air travel. SWISS International Air Lines
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by Isabelle Gerretsen (China Dialogue/Transport Energy Strategies) Experts say the shipping industry will have to decarbonise rapidly to keep global average temperature increases below the critical threshold of 1.5C, and find alternative
September 22, 2022
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(Sulzer) Sulzer Chemtech is helping Energy Absolute (EA) to expand its manufacturing plant in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The collaboration is key to drive the competitiveness of EA, as
September 14, 2022
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(Synhelion) Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The Swiss solar fuel
September 14, 2022
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(WinGD) fuelSwiss marine power company WinGD and Korean engine builder HSD Engine have initiated a Joint Development Project (JDP) to advance the development of WinGD’s methanol-fueled big-bore engines. The aim
September 5, 2022
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(Stena Bulk) Stena Pro Patria and Stena Pro Marine became the first vessels to bunker methanol in South Korea in significant milestone for joint venture and for methanol uptake in
September 5, 2022
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(Biofuels International) The collection of used cooking oil is crucial to the supply of biodiesel feedstock. Biofuels International spoke to Pol Van Pollaert, Commercial Director of Quatra, a market leader
August 25, 2022
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(Sulzer) Sulzer Chemtech (GTC Technology) and BASF have signed a MoU with the goal of advancing technologies for renewable fuels and chemically recycled plastics that will further expand the partners’
August 25, 2022
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(IMDEA Energy Institute) Developing solar technologies for producing carbon-neutral aviation fuels has become a global energy challenge, but their readiness level has largely been limited to laboratory-scale studies. Here we
August 8, 2022
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by Adis Ajdin (Splash 247) Cyprus-based MSC Shipmanagement a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed a framework agreement with London-listed alternative-fuels company Quadrise Fuels International to trial its emulsion
July 27, 2022
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(Phillips 66) JET H2 Energy combines companies’ retail and hydrogen expertise to form a leading player in hydrogen mobility — Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and H2 Energy Europe (“H2 Energy”) today
July 26, 2022
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by Tina Casey (Clean Technica) This “solar tower” deploys solar energy to convert water and carbon dioxide to produce non-fossil kerosene for sustainable jet fuel. … (T)he Swiss institution ETH
July 25, 2022
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(easyJet/Biobased Diesel Daily) Società Esercizi Aeroportuali, the group that manages the airports of Milan Malpensa and Linate, and the low-cost airline easyJet signed a letter of intent July 11 with the
July 20, 2022
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(Associazione Culturale Torino-Pechino/NGV Journal) The Associazione Culturale Torino-Pechino (Torpec 2008), whose main area of activity is the organization of trips outside the central tourist routes, with particular interest in the social,
July 7, 2022
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(MSC) As part of its Journey to Net Zero, MSC has been using blended biofuels to propel its ships. Discover how MSC Biofuel Solution helps the company’s customers to meet CO2
June 17, 2022
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by Gordon Davidson (The Scotish Farmer) Britain’s hills are alive with suffocating bracken – but a new biofuel project aims to make bracken clearance worthwhile, perhaps even profitable. Jeremy Oakley, of
June 10, 2022
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by Christopher Surgenor (GreenAir Online) As part of the climate neutral by 2050 binding target of the European Green Deal, the EU has set an interim goal of cutting emissions by
June 7, 2022
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(WinGD/NGV Journal) Swiss marine power company WinGD has published a new white paper highlighting its holistic approach to help ship owners and operators to decarbonize their vessels. The paper, titled The
June 2, 2022
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by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) Jet Aviation announced May 20 that it signed an agreement with Total Energies to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for uplift at its fixed-base operation
May 31, 2022
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(Hitachi Zosen Inova/NGV Journal) The German biogas producer Bioenergie Geest GmbH & Co. KG and the Swiss cleantech company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) signed a contract to establish the joint venture
May 20, 2022
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(H-TEC SYSTEMS/NGV Journal) H-TEC SYSTEMS and Groupe E will implement the first hydrogen project in Western Switzerland. For this project, two H-TEC SYSTEMS ME450/1400 PEM electrolyzers will produce green hydrogen from
April 12, 2022
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(INERATEC) Climate tech companies Synhelion and INERATEC have joined forces to decarbonize the transportation sector and help it achieve its ambitious net-zero target. By combining their complementing technologies, the climate pioneers
April 8, 2022
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(Clariant) Clariant joins the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) to promote the use of renewable raw materials; RCI aims to promote the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for use
March 31, 2022
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by Christopher Surgenor (GreenAir Online) A summit of 37 European countries, the European Commission and representatives from nearly 150 companies and stakeholders convened by the French government, which currently holds
March 25, 2022
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by Chad Trautvetter (AIN Online) Jet Aviation has signed the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2030 Ambition Statement, “Clean Skies for Tomorrow,” which aims for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to constitute
March 23, 2022
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(Groupo Banco Africano de Desenvolimento) The Spark+ Africa Fund has raised over $40 million in a first close, it was announced on Wednesday. The Fund is the world’s first impact investment
March 17, 2022
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(Maersk) To boost the global production capacity of green methanol, A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) enters strategic partnerships with six leading companies with the intent of sourcing at least 730,000
March 13, 2022
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by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) Brazilian biodiesel firm BSBios has acquired 100 percent of a small biodiesel production facility in Switzerland. The MP Biodiesel plant, located in Domdidier, in
March 2, 2022
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by Anjana Nair (Bio Market Insights) … An important candidate is hydrogen produced from organic waste, or “biomass” of plants and animals. Biomass absorbs, removes, and stores CO2 from the
February 10, 2022
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) 1.5 Mton/a sustainable aviation fuels production capacity by the end of 2023 with plans to grow capacity, helping customers reduce their GHG emissions by at
February 3, 2022
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(Diamondo Earthrounding/Biobased Diesel Daily) Diamondo Earthrounding, a nonprofit initiative, driven by a team of nine young aviators, departed Zurich, Switzerland, in a Diamond DA50 RG 5-seater aircraft Jan. 2, flying in
February 2, 2022
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(DEAC/Biobased Diesel Daily) DEAC, one of the largest independent data centers in Northern Europe that has been acquiring renewable electricity since last year, and renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
February 2, 2022
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by Thomas Breen (New Haven Independent) An Annex plant that turns vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel won permission to expand its industrial waterfront operations — with a plea from City Plan Commissioners to do
January 25, 2022
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(EuropaWire) Empa, the Swiss research institute for applied materials sciences and technology, has announced that a software tool aimed at supporting fleet managers in transforming truck fleet to low-CO2 powertrains jointly
January 21, 2022
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) From algal-based wastewater treatment plants and purification ponds with biofuels/co-products in California to aviation fuels and algae strain improvements, MicroBio is leading R&D and
January 17, 2022
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by Meghan Sapp (Biofuels Digest) In Switzerland, the Round Table on Sustainable Soy has released its first standard for sustainable corn alongside the fourth version of its sustainable soy standard in
January 7, 2022
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) … What about the different routes to get that lovely green hydrogen? From splitting water via excess green power (power-to-hydrogen), to stripping hydrogen out of
January 5, 2022
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(Gevo/Globe Newswire) Kolmar Deal Valued at Up to US$2.4 Billion over Eight Years — Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) has a new partner: Kolmar Americas Inc. (“Kolmar”). Kolmar and Gevo have entered
December 8, 2021
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(WinGD) Swiss engine designer WinGD has announced that its engines will be able to run on methanol and ammonia from 2024 and 2025 respectively. WinGD’s multi-fuel solutions will be based on
November 26, 2021
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by Jonathan Saul, Nina Chestney (Reuters) Developers across the world are for the first time testing the use of hydrogen to power ships as the maritime industry races to find
November 24, 2021
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) If you missed the ABLC presentation by Andreas Reindl, Clariant’s Business Line Biofuels & Derivatives, Head of Industrial Enzymes and Technologies, then you won’t want
November 24, 2021
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(IEA Bioenergy/Electric Energy Online) IEA Bioenergy has just released its updated Country Reports, showing the trends of bioenergy in the IEA Bioenergy member countries up to 2019, looking at the role
November 23, 2021
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by Nikolaus J. Kurmayer (EURACTIV.com) The European Commission is preparing to launch an EU-wide database to certify the carbon footprint of hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels in a harmonised way. The
November 19, 2021
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) It’s a simple idea, using renewable electricity to induce carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form a hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons, you know, the stuff we burn as liquid
November 9, 2021
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(World Economic Forum) · A new study by the World Economic Forum presents a sectoral roadmap for India to accelerate decarbonization and drive global climate action efforts · According to
November 8, 2021
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(Clariant/EurActiv) Starting in the fourth quarter of this year, Clariant’s sunliquid® cellulosic ethanol plant in Podari, Romania, will ramp up production in order to produce 50,000 tons of cellulosic ethanol
November 8, 2021
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(Clariant) Clariant together with other companies from the chemical industry and the World Economic Forum (WEF) establish a breakthrough pre-competitive development platform designed to accelerate net-zero climate technologies; The first-of-its-kind
November 5, 2021
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(On, Inc./CISION) Swiss sports brand On leads supply chain coalition to reshape carbon waste into running shoes — Main Facts: – On announces CleanCloud™ – a sustainability initiative using carbon emissions to create
November 5, 2021
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(CEMEX) CEMEX Ventures joins a select group of leading global investors supporting Synhelion. Starting in 2020, CEMEX and Synhelion began developing an innovative solar-driven technology that aims to eliminate fossil
November 4, 2021
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by Rachel Graham (Bloomberg) Turning bales of straw into ethanol is about to become a highly profitable venture in Europe, according to a firm that just opened a production site
October 15, 2021
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(Romania Insider/MSN) Swiss group Clariant sticks with their plan to start producing bioethanol, a fuel made from straw processing, at its new plant in Romania until the end of 2021, Ziarul Financiar reported.
September 28, 2021
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) It’s another exciting day for sustainable aviation fuel with Air bp offering a book and claim solution, certified by RSB, to allow customers to access
September 20, 2021
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by Michael Birnbaum (Washington Post) The Orca, an installation built by Climeworks, will capture 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — and serve as a blueprint for similar
September 9, 2021
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by Sarah McFarlane (Wall Street Journal) Vitol, Glencore and other firms that dominate oil trading are beefing up their carbon-trading desks — Big energy trading houses, long focused on deep, volatile markets
September 6, 2021
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) … Swiss Re and Climeworks, a leading specialist in carbon dioxide air capture technology, are partnering to combat climate change. The partners signed the world’s first
September 6, 2021
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(Alpiq/Electric Energy Online) Alpiq, EW Höfe and SOCAR Energy Switzerland are planning to build an electrolysis plant with a capacity of up to 10 MW in Freienbach (SZ). The commissioning
August 24, 2021
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Hydrogen demand keeps going up. It is essential to many processes, like biofuels production, chemical processes and oil refining and is one of the most
August 24, 2021
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by Chloe Jardine (Argus Media) Switzerland’s federal government yesterday called for climate policy to be “realistic” and “socially responsible”, and rejected a ban on fossil fuels beyond 2050, in its official
August 13, 2021
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by Daniela Castim (Bio Market Insights) … Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from renewable feedstock and raw material residue such as animal fat and used cooking oil, is currently the most
August 11, 2021
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by Stephen Jewkes (Reuters) Europe’s biggest utility Enel (ENEI.MI) has agreed to work with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri (FCT.MI) to find ways to use green hydrogen in ports and long-range sea transport. “The two companies intend
August 6, 2021
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(Advanced Biofuels USA) We are seeing a number of articles about bio-based batteries and biodegradable batteries. Wondering if we should
July 26, 2021
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) In Switzerland, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials published the outcomes of RSB’s Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
July 19, 2021
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by Dan Morgan (The Globalist) Right now, electric cars have the momentum and the “inevitability” narrative on their side. Is
July 16, 2021
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(SWISS) SWISS has established the first-ever end-to-end logistics chain for importing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Switzerland in collaboration with various
July 14, 2021
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by Robert Lea (AZO CleanTech) New research suggests that a carbon-neutral biofuel could be created from methane extracted from lakes.
May 21, 2021
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(Schöni (Google Translation)) Since January 2021, the beverages of Mineralquelle Eptingen AG have been delivered to customers by the Rothrister
May 18, 2021
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by Corbin Hiar (E&E News/Scientific American) … Shopify Inc.’s agreement is the largest publicly announced corporate purchase of direct air
March 29, 2021
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(Scania/NGV Journal) Zurich’s Office of Parks and Open Spaces, Grün Stadt Zürich, maintains all public green spaces in the city (street
March 4, 2021
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(GreenAir Online) A recent high-level conference hosted by the Dutch government focused on the potential of synthetic aviation fuels, also
February 26, 2021
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(Spotfolio/Bloom Biorenewables) (BEV-E) Bloom Biorenewables, a Swiss startup developing innovative biomass fractionation technologies, closed today its Seed Round of funding, resulting
February 24, 2021
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by Kelsey Tamborrino (Politico’s Morning Energy) Microsoft — which previously committed to become carbon negative by 2030 — detailed its
January 29, 2021
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by John Fialka (E&E News) … “Can we afford not to do this?” was the way Steve Oldham, the CEO of
January 7, 2021
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(aireg) aireg and its members are happy to welcome reisetopia as a new member. The biggest German website for luxury
November 13, 2020
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(Biofuels International) Finnish-Swiss biotech firm Ductor has closed funding from BW Group to develop 200 new biogas and sustainable organic
October 13, 2020
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(Biofuels International) Jet Aviation has confirmed its ongoing commitment to sustainable aviation in the industry’s first virtual sustainability summit hosted
October 1, 2020
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by Brigitte Osterath (The Federal Council Swiss Government/Paul Scherrer Institute) Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and from ETH Zurich want
September 22, 2020
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(Biofuels International) Swiss firm Bloom Biorenewables has received a major investment to complete its biomass fractionation pilot project, which will
September 5, 2020
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) 2019 was a banner year for RSB that saw growing recognition of RSB’s leadership in the
September 1, 2020
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by Luke Upton (BioMarket Insights) … Bloom’s ( @BloomBiorenewa1 ) patented mild lignin extraction method uses stabilizing molecules that prevent lignin (a
August 29, 2020
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(Mibelle Group) The Mibelle Group uses novel technology to obtain alcohol from CO2. — The Mibelle Group has recently started to
August 24, 2020
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by Scott Jenkins (Chemical Engineering) Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Ineratec (Karlsruhe, Germany; www.ineratec.de) have entered into a partnership to develop and commercialize
June 18, 2020
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Who’s making what, how, where and when? Find out why there are a zillian paths
June 15, 2020
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(Empa/NGV Journal) By 2030, Lidl Switzerland wants to deliver its goods to all its stores without the use of fossil fuels.
June 3, 2020
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(Lufthansa Group) Lufthansa Group, ETH Zurich and its spin-offs Climeworks and Synhelion plan to cooperate in the field of Sustainable Aviation
May 20, 2020
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) In Switzerland, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials offered updates on their “Fueling the Sustainable Bioeconomy” project
May 18, 2020
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by Jim McMahon (Biomass Magazine) After 35 years of open-air composting, Zurich’s recently-opened anaerobic digestion facility can process 25,000 tons
May 15, 2020
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(Eindhoven University of Technology) EU-funded project aims to develop new production methods for sustainable maritime fuels. — Many ships use heavy
May 12, 2020
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(Oregon State University/Phys.Org) An international research collaboration has taken an important step toward the commercially viable manufacture of biobutanol, an alcohol
April 28, 2020
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(Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials) The “Blockchain database for sustainable biofuels” project is jointly led by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
April 16, 2020
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(Bioenergy Insight) Finnish-Swiss biotech company Ductor is building three combined biofertiliser-biogas facilities in northern Poland. The new facilities will be
April 7, 2020
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by Julia Payne (Reuters) The world’s largest oil traders are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into climate-friendly projects –
February 19, 2020
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(WinGD) WinGD (Winterthur Gas & Diesel) has bolstered its investment in fuel research with the development of a flexible injection
January 31, 2020
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … World Fuel Services and World Energy have a World Economic Forum Sustainable Aviation Fuel Program
January 21, 2020
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by Madeleine Cuff (Business Green) Firm promises to develop ‘scalable supply’ of sustainable aviation fuels under new multi-year partnership with
January 7, 2020
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(EPFL) Researchers at EPFL have patented a new concept that could cut trucks’ CO2 emissions by almost 90%. It involves
December 28, 2019
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) “The measure of how disruptive Synthetic Biology is lies in the applications, the use cases and
November 26, 2019
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Louisiana, longtime industry executive Glenn Johnston said that NuSeed has acquired the carinata assets of Canadian
November 26, 2019
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by Jerry Hirsch (Trucks) Hyundai Motor Co. has an ambitious plan to wean the global trucking industry from fossil fuels by
November 13, 2019
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(Hyundai/NGV Journal) … For the production of hydrogen and its delivery to the refueling stations, Hydrospider was founded at the
September 30, 2019
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) With Climate Week on many minds this week, it’s good to see innovations being developed to
September 25, 2019
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(MBP Solutions) … Today MBP Solutions has become a world leader in the collection, handling, processing, production and application of
September 16, 2019
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(Hydrogen Digest) The International Energy Agency observed in its Future of Hydrogen report (here), that “ the technologies are available to
September 5, 2019
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by Nawar Hasan Imran Al-Esawi, Mansour Al Qubeissi and Ruslana Kolodnytska (Coventry University/Energies) The interest in biofuels was stimulated by
August 28, 2019
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by Tami Hood (Hydrogen Fuel News) Alpiq and H2 Energy to develop hydrogen-powered transportation in Switzerland. The nation’s first system for
August 7, 2019
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by Lisa Zyga (Phys.org) … The biofuel cell reported here is designed to convert fructose-containing fluids, such as grape juice, into electrical
August 5, 2019
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Clariant, a Switzerland based specialty chemicals company, has four business areas: Care Chemicals, Natural Resources, Catalysis
July 29, 2019
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(GreenAir Online) A project funded by the EU and Switzerland claims to have made a breakthrough in producing renewable jet kerosene
June 28, 2019
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by Chad Trautvetter (AIN Online) Europe will once again be the focal point for the business aviation community when EBACE 2019
May 15, 2019
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(EPFL) EPFL researchers have created a smart device capable of producing large amounts of clean hydrogen. By concentrating sunlight, their device
May 8, 2019
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(European Commission) An ‘artificial leaf’ being developed by EU-funded researchers to produce fuel from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, could tackle
April 30, 2019
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(Diesel Technology Forum) The two automotive shows, 4,412 miles apart, couldn’t offer a different picture of the industry if they tried.
March 19, 2019
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by Liz Gyekye (BioMarket Insights) We are working on the launch of an innovative investment fund to finance sustainable agricultural supply
March 15, 2019
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) For some time, as the advanced bioeconomy has continued its pivot to deployment-scale diesel and jet
January 24, 2019
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(ExxonMobil/Renewable Energy Group/Globe Newswire) Partnership to expand on joint ExxonMobil and REG research into cellulosic biodiesel; Clariant’s sunliquid® technology to facilitate creation
January 23, 2019
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(Netzwerk Biotreibstoffe) The latest IEA Bioenergy Task 37 Newsletter has been released. Highlights from the newsletter are: 11% more Swiss biogas
December 19, 2018
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by Rob Cockerill (GasWorld) Switzerland-based Climeworks has just launched another of its second-generation Direct Air Capture plants (DAC-3) in Troia, Apulia
November 5, 2018
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(Hyundai Motor/NGV Journal) Hyundai Motor Company affirmed at the ‘IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018’ in Hanover that it has entered into a
October 3, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. In today’s Digest, a
October 2, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) IEA Bioenergy Task 33 is a working group of international experts with the aim to promote
September 28, 2018
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(SwissInfo.ch) Chemists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a method that can significantly increase the yield
September 25, 2018
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by Betsy Lillian (NGT News) United Airlines has committed to reducing its own greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions 50% by 2050, further strengthening
September 25, 2018
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(GreenAir Online) … The Geneva pilot project was cancelled after an application to the Swiss authorities for project facilitation funding
September 20, 2018
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by Cole Latimer (Sydney Morning Herald) startup company backed by energy giant Shell has developed a method to turn carbon dioxide into
September 18, 2018
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by Justin Bachman (Bloomberg) For years, airlines have experimented with biofuels, aiming to reduce both carbon emissions and their reliance on fossil fuels.
September 14, 2018
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(Clariant) Investment represents biggest industrial commitment by an international corporation in the region of Craiova; Location chosen for combination of feedstock supply
September 13, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) From Switzerland comes word of a technology for methanol synthesis plants which capture CO2 from the
August 28, 2018
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by Jussi Rosendahl (Reuters/EuroNews) Biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste <NESTE.HE> sees good opportunities for its renewable jet fuel despite a cancelled
August 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) A team from Switzerland has come up with a black box the size of a molecule, and inside
August 7, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) From Portugal comes the news that SilicoLife was awarded with a SME instrument phase 1 grant
August 3, 2018
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(Insurance Journal) Swiss Re announced it no longer is providing re/insurance to businesses with more than 30 percent exposure to thermal
July 9, 2018
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A recent Biofuels Digest article noted that Michael Tamor, a Henry Ford Technical Fellow at Ford, at a recent DOE
June 8, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) A technology for direct air capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with a cost that
June 8, 2018
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(Biofuels International) Struggles and triumphs of the biofuels industry were brought into sharp focus at the Platts 7th Annual Biofuels Conference in
May 17, 2018
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(Hitachi Zosen Inova) Hitachi Zosen Inova is to build Scandinavia’s second Kompogas® facility in Jönköping, Sweden. It will use a dry
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Adam Klauber of the Rocky Mountain Institute gave this presentation about working with airports to
April 27, 2018
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by Angelica Bottaro (Engineering.com) A new sophisticated computer model to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions from biorefineries has been developed to ensure
February 26, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Brazil, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) is joining the Switzerland-based Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, whose member
January 29, 2018
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(Science Daily/Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)) A new EU regulation aims to shrink the environmental footprint of biofuels starting in
January 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kebbi State
November 27, 2017
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(Xinhua Net) As China encourages the use of renewable energy for sustainable growth, it is creating a huge biofuel market that
November 8, 2017
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(NGV Journal/SPIE Switzerland) The event marking the delivery to SPIE Switzerland Ltd of 30 SEAT Leon ST TGI models running on
November 8, 2017
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by Ben Chapman (Independent) With long-distance electric-powered transport still a long way off, can advances in renewable fuel made from vegetable
November 1, 2017
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By Michael Eggleston* (Advanced Biofuels USA) Flying in Formation: Since the first test flight almost 10 years ago, there have
(Biofuels International) A general ban on palm oil in biofuels in Europe punishes the wrong producers while having little impact on
by Marcius Extavour (XPRIZE/Biofuels Digest) … Hydrocarbon drop-in fuels are among the leading products targeted by the CO2 conversion community, be it
October 11, 2017
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(Neste Corp./Biodiesel Magazine) Neste and Geneva Airport are pioneering together to make flying more sustainable by starting to decarbonize aviation
September 14, 2017
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(Netzwerk Biotreibstoffe/IEA Bioenergy Task 37 Newsletter) This brief highlights the technologies available – both established and newly emerging – for
August 24, 2017
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by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Biomass Magazine) The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials recently released a report reviewing its 2016 activities
June 8, 2017
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(Bombardier) First delivery of biofuels completed by AEG Fuels; Flights demonstrate companies’ shared commitment to sustainability — SkyNRG and AEG Fuels
May 23, 2017
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(CHASSY) … Yeast is already the powerhouse behind many food flavourings, the anti-aging compound Resveratrol, the malaria drug Artemisinin, the grapefruit
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