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- HFCS Makers Respond to Mercury Study
- Last week, as noted in this space, a couple of scientific studies were published (by the same people, essentially) stating that high fructose corn syrup can contain possibly dangerous amounts of mercury. The Corn Refiner's Association responded, saying the study, by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, fell...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
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- California Kicks Corn-based Ethanol to the Curb; Welcomes Futuristic Biofuels
- The corn ethanol industry already reeling from low gasoline prices and higher corn and energy costs suffered another blow to its bottom line and possibly its future Thursday when the California Air Resource Board OK'd the nation's first low-carbon fuel standard. In a 9-1 vote late Thursday CARB approved...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Does EPA Biofuels Proposal Really Threaten Corn-based Ethanol?
- Politicians, ethanol producers and environmentalists have worked themselves into a frenzy since the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under 2007 legislation, proposed new standards for the biofuels industry aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Much of the verbal sparring centers on how emissions of biofuels will be measured and whether the proposed rule unfairly...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- POET to Use Corn Cobs - Not Natural Gas - to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
- POET has figured out what the rest of the corn-based ethanol industry has failed to grasp: relying on price-volatile fossil fuels to power its plants is bad for business. POET announced Wednesday it will use corn cobs -- specifically the liquid waste created in the cob-to-fuel conversion process -- to power its...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- JV SET UP TO PRODUCE CORN SYRUP
- AsiaInfo Services 10-01-2001 JV Set up to Produce Corn Syrup SHANGHAI, Oct 01, 2001 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- U.S. agricultural company Cargill Inc. and its partner Hong Kong-based Global Bio-chem Technology Group will build a corn syrup refiner AsiaInfo Services...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
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- Corn Products on best managed list WESTCHESTER - Corn Products International Inc. said it has been named by Forbes Magazine to the "America's Best Managed Companies" list published in the magazine's Jan. 10 issue. Forbes chooses the 26 companies on the list from companies...
- Research articles 2005-01-18
- What's Going on with Corn?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Just last week, our own Brad Zigler was talking about the ethanol bust; in particular, how the boom in corn prices and inflation had made being an ethanol refiner a pretty dismal proposition, and highlighting how the push-me-pull-you of inflation was hitting...
- External links 2008-08-26
- Pacific Ethanol's Troubles Signal More Bankruptcies to Come
- Pacific Ethanol joined last week a growing list of biofuel producers hurt by the trifecta of low gasoline prices, higher corn and energy costs and the global credit crunch. The Sacramento-based company announced it had run out of cash, defaulted on $250 million of loans and faces bankruptcy...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Green Plains, Sunoco Deals Highlight Bargain-Basement Ethanol Plant Prices
- It's remarkable what ethanol plants are going for these days. Two separate ethanol plant purchases this week shine a glaring light on how far prices have dropped since last year. With prices this low, the ethanol-producing industry is going to experience rapid consolidation, that's already begun. Philadelphia-based...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Ethanol Plants Idle, Workers Wait as VeraSun Buyout Drags Out
- Several companies including U.S. oil refiner Valero Energy have swooped up ethanol plants from bankrupt-plagued VeraSun Energy. But employees at many of these plants are still worrying and waiting for the deals to close so they can get back to work. Valero has the highest profile deal --...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Does Conoco Deserve a Subsidy to Produce Biofuels?
- ConocoPhillips ended its long-idling animal fat-to-diesel fuel project with Tyson Foods on Wednesday because federal tax credits slashed in half last fall have yet to be restored by lawmakers. The question is whether Conoco, the second-largest U.S. oil refiner, should have ever qualified for the $1-per-gallon tax credit?...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Who Will Buy Bankrupt Ethanol Maker Aventine?
- Bankrupt ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy is no longer tying up all its effort and hopes into recapitalization. Company leaders obviously aware of the massive hurdles it faces, has put its business up on the public selling block. Will another oil refiner, like Valero Energy, jump into the biz and buy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
- Now that the dust kicked up over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settled just a little bit, it's worth taking a look at Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell, companies well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race. The EPA released this week its draft regulations requiring biofuels to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- POET CEO: Future of Second-Gen Biofuels Depends on E15
- The argument for increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline has generally stayed within the this-is-good-for-all-us territory. But in a year of bankruptcy filings and idling plants, the ethanol industry is taking a slightly more doomsday approach. In a Bloomberg article, Jeff Broin, head of the largest U.S. ethanol producer, said...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- GreenHunter Puts 'For Sale' Sign on Biodiesel Refinery
- GreenHunter Energy has joined the growing list of U.S. biodiesel companies struggling with European tariffs on exports and low oil prices. Just last year the company opened a massive biodiesel refinery in Texas -- considered the largest in the U.S. -- capable of producing 105 million gallons a year. Now that...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Exxon Gives SGI's Algae-to-Fuel Effort $600 Million Kick-start
- ExxonMobil's $600 million partnership with Synthetic Genomics to develop next-generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae is already being cast as a shift in the conservative company's modus operandi. And why not? The largest U.S. oil company by market value has shied away from investments in alternative energy and has been especially...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Aventine Files for Bankruptcy; CEO Miller Points to RINs
- Aventine Renewable Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, yet another ethanol producer to go down the bankruptcy road in recent months. Just yesterday - and yes prior to the filing -Â BNET noted the Pekin, Ill.-based company was the next likely suspect among ethanol producers...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Ethanol Industry Squeezes an Otherwise Profitable Farmer Mac
- Folks -- or should I say shareholders -- were falling all over themselves yesterday on news that the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp., commonly called Farmer Mac, posted a first-quarter profit. Hooray --Â good for them. Let's not forget the other piece of the rural lender's earnings report. The...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Ethanol Makers Still Trying to Catch a Break from Banks, Debt Holders
- The Burrill Report submits: by MARIE DAGHLIAN A combination of lower oil prices and challenging financial markets continues to spell disaster for U.S. ethanol companies, with another 10 providers of this first-generation biofuel going belly up in the first five months of 2009. Among the latest was Pacific Ethanol PEIX,...
- External links 2009-06-07
- EU Imposes Five-Year Tariff on U.S. Biodiesel Producers
- U.S. biodiesel producers -- already suffering from low oil prices, weak domestic demand and a delayed Environmental Protection Agency mandate -- were hit Tuesday with a five-year tariff on exports to Europe. The European Union imposed a provisional tariff on imports of U.S.-made biodiesel back in March in response...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
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