Advanced BioFuels USA

(4-Traders)  Industry and government officials from more than 15 countries in the Western Hemisphere are meeting this week at the Ethanol Summit of the Americas to discuss current and future opportunities for ethanol in the region.

The event is underway until Friday in Houston, Texas, sponsored by the U.S. Grains Council (USGC), Growth Energy, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board. These organizations and others in the U.S. agriculture and renewable fuels industries work together to promote the global use of ethanol and U.S. ethanol exports.

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The Summit has also served as a launching point for expanded regional engagement markets in the Caribbean, Central America and South America.

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The Summit is highlighting the use of ethanol in transportation fuels to help meet a number of economic and environmental challenges, including improving air quality, extending the current fuel supply and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

‘The United States is the world’s top ethanol exporter, providing countries around the globe with an alternative to toxic gasoline additives and helping to reduce air pollution,’ Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor said.

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The two-day conference also includes technical presentations on ethanol-related policies, infrastructure and use in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Paraguay. The Summit has highlighted the release of new research on the environmental benefits of blending ethanol into gasoline as well as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ethanol roadmap, the economics of octane and how global ethanol shares prosperity through trade.   READ MORE

ACE hosts Latin American trade group on ethanol tour  (Ethanol Producer Magazine)

Ethanol Summit Focuses On Biofuels Collaborations In The Western Hemisphere (KTIC)

Ethanol summit promotes collaboration in Western Hemisphere (World-Grain.com)

Excerpt from Ethanol Producer Magazine:  ACE Senior Vice President Ron Lamberty shared his ethanol market expertise with the visiting trade group and answered their questions about the industry. At the request of USGC, Lamberty recently traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico, to meet with members of Association Mexicana De Empresarios Gasolineros (AMEGAS), Mexico’s largest group of gasoline station owners, to discuss challenges and opportunities with offering ethanol blended gasoline.

“The new market developing in Mexico reminds me of when I was starting out as one of the first ethanol retailers and wholesale splash-blenders in the U.S.,” Lamberty said. “Independent marketers there seemed interested in ethanol options, and I’m happy to travel to or host interested groups to educate them about higher ethanol blends.”

Lamberty also recently met with a touring USGC delegation from South Korea on their stop in Omaha, Nebraska. Lamberty spoke with the group—which included representatives of oil and chemical companies, the Korean Department of Energy and engineering professors—about ethanol’s octane value as a fuel blending component.  READ MORE