July 13, 2018
BY Lisa Gibson
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UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced sugarcane processing and ethanol production during the first half of September remained higher than last year despite the impact of recent fires. Ethanol sales were up slightly.
The USDA’s Commodity Credit Corp. has announced that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2024, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2025.
In late August, representatives from the U.S. Grains Council and the U.S. ethanol industry embarked on an exploratory mission to China, aimed at gaining critical insights into the country’s ethanol market and policy landscape.
The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative has unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists engineered a process for making β-ketoadipic acid from lignin for $2 per kilogram, approaching cost-competitiveness with petroleum-based chemicals used for making nylon today.