COLUMBUS, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADM (NYSE: ADM), a global leader in innovative solutions from nature, today marked the start of operations for a new carbon capture and storage project at its Columbus, Nebraska Corn Processing Complex, making the complex the largest bioethanol carbon capture facility in the world. The project leverages Tallgrass's Trailblazer pipeline to transport captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from ADM's ethanol plant in Columbus to Tallgrass' Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. ...

Borregaard has experienced an unforeseen outage at a facility at the Sarpsborg site, which supplies a key chemical used in the production of speciality cellulose. During the period of the outage, cellulose production was restricted to grades outside standard specifications, resulting in delays of shipments of certain speciality cellulose grades. Production of other products at the biorefinery – including lignin-based biopolymers, bio-vanillin, bioethanol, and cellulose fibrils – remained unaffected. Borrega ...

Group 1 - The UK Renewable Transport Fuel Association (RTFA) is urging the UK government to urgently revise the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) authorization policy to allow domestically produced crop-based bioethanol for aviation fuel production [1] - The RTFA warns that without action, the domestic bioethanol industry in the UK could face a fatal blow due to the new US-UK trade agreement allowing tariff-free imports of US ethanol [1] - The new trade agreement, effective from June 30, includes a tariff-free import quota of 1.4 billion liters of US ethanol, nearly equivalent to the total annual domestic market in the UK [1] Group 2 - UK producers such as Ensus and Vivergo Fuels are facing severe losses and shutdown risks due to the economic unviability caused by the tariff-free access of US ethanol [1] - Vivergo Fuels, a subsidiary of AB Foods, has set a shutdown deadline for mid-September, currently incurring losses of $3 million per month and has ceased raw material procurement since June [1] - Ensus, owned by CropEnergies, is also considering shutdown and is set to be put up for sale starting December 2024, with a reported loss of £19.86 million in the 2024 financial report [1]