Wednesday, June 29, 2011

News-in-Brief: June 29th, 2011


 Danisco releases its Sustainability Report

Danisco has released its sustainability report, detailing how it has used bio-based materials to reduce its carbon footprint, with a strong focus on Life Cycle Assessment’s role in decision-making. This is the last report of its kind that will report on Danisco-only efforts, as Danisco was purchased by DuPont in January.


Biofuels Take Flight

In Paris on June 18th 2011 a Gulf-Stream jet makes its landing. What makes this otherwise routine occurrence remarkable is that 50% of its power was bio-based using Honeywell’s Green Jet Fuel (50% here means one of two Rolls-Royce engines), making it the first Transatlantic crossing of its kind. The route closely followed that taken by Charles Lindbergh nearly a century earlier.

This was followed today by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines completed the first passenger flight using biokerosene as fuel, following an announcement last week that 200 flights between Amsterdam and Paris will use a 50/50 blend of petroleum-based and bio-based fuels, starting in September.

With positive test results coming from Gevo, and a recent announcement kicking off the Agri Energy Technology Demonstration in which Michigan State University, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and Willow Run Airport will collaborate to grow bio-energy crops on site, the sky is the limit for bio-based aviation fuels.

Bunge expands Sugar in brazil, sees biofuels as logical expansion of biz

Bunge plans to expand its sugarcane holdings in Brazil, adding 25,000 hectares to the 200,000 hectares it already has. “You want to make sure your cane is expanding at a slightly faster pace than industrial capacity,” said Ben Pearcy, Bunge’s chief development officer and managing director of sugar and bio-energy.

Bunge owns eight mills in Brazil, and this expansion is part of an initiative to get them all producing at peak capacity, with the plan to increase its sugar unit to match the size of its agribusiness unit (its largest).







From Fuels to Chemicals
Gevo to convert ethanol plant to isobutanol plant, seeing more value in chemicals supply chain than in the gas pump.



Bayer off on the right foot




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