http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/basf-sells-bioenergy-enzymes-business-to-lallemand/ BASF has sold its bioenergy enzymes business to Lallemand's subsidiaries, Danstar Ferment AG and Lallemand Specialties Inc. This includes the Spartec® product portfolio and related technologies in development. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/brazils-raizen-launches-second-generation-ethanol-plant-mulls-new-contracts/ Brazil's Raizen inaugurated its second cellulosic ethanol plant as part of a plan in which four more production units will be opened by the 2025/26 harvest. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/verbio-commences-biorefinery-conversion-project-in-indiana-us/ Verbio has begun converting its South Bend ethanol plant into a cutting-edge biorefinery. With a groundbreaking ceremony, Verbio aims to integrate renewable natural gas (RNG) and bioethanol production through innovative methods. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2024/may-2024/columns/editorial-comment-boosting-bio-content-in-processing-feeds-challenges-and-solutions-driving-the-energy-transition/ Around the world, nations have instituted pathways to reduce emissions within their economies. These initiatives include various investments in carbon mitigation strategies such as boosting domestic renewables capacity, utilizing low-/zero-carbon fuels for power generation (e.g., green hydrogen), adding carbon capture technologies to projects and industrial installations, and increasing bio-content in transportation fuels, among others. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/us-appeals-court-upholds-biofuel-blending-mandates-for-2020-2022/ A U.S. appeals court upheld a rule from President Joe Biden's administration that set the amount of biofuels that oil refiners were required to blend into the nation's fuel mix from 2020 through 2022, rejecting a challenge by oil refiners to the mandates. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/saffire-renewables-biofuel-pilot-plant-to-be-developed-in-kansas/ On its path to opening a facility designed to turn agriculture residue into a scalable biofuel business, SAFFiRE Renewables, LLC plans to break ground on its pilot plant near Liberal, Kansas, in late 2024. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/brazils-timbro-to-export-40-more-sugar-enter-ethanol-market-in-2024/ Brazilian international trade platform Timbro expects to increase its sugar exports by more than 40% in 2024 to 2 MMt, while also expanding operations to enter the ethanol market. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/us-epa-to-announce-temporary-expanded-sales-of-higher-ethanol-gasoline-blend/ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to temporarily expand sales of higher-ethanol blends of gasoline this summer, a win for the corn ethanol industry that will likely see demand increase. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/biden-administrations-us-initial-saf-subsidy-model-to-raise-climate-hurdle-for-ethanol/ The Biden administration will release a preliminary climate model for its SAF subsidy program in the coming weeks that is more restrictive than what the corn-based ethanol industry had expected. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/03/ineos-op-uk-announced-a-proposal-to-cease-production-of-ethanol-from-its-grangemouth-site/ INEOS O&P UK announced a proposal to close the Ethanol Plant at Grangemouth in Q1 2025 and will start consultations in Grangemouth with its employees and the Trade Union about this proposal.