Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2010
JMax 100 is the first elite cultivar developed through the company’s JMax Jatropha Optimization Platform. The platform provides growers and plantation developers with access to the highest yielding and most profitable Jatropha in the …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Feb 22nd, 2010
California-based SG Biofuels announced the release of a new product it says is the first “elite jatropha cultivar” to be used to produced biofuels, grown in Guatemala, according to Biofuels Digest.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2010
The seedlings for the first 100 hectares (250 acres) have been planted. Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material.
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Dec 3rd, 2009
Dutch airline KLM has completed a fifth jet biofuel test flight–and the first with passengers other than flight crew. Using a 50–50 blend of regular jet fuel and biofuel refined from camelina oil in one of its four engines, the flight carried 42 “observers” for an hour on November 23 from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, enough to fill business class, according to chemist Jennifer Holmgren, who …
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2009
The company, which is the first in West Africa to begin the production and sale of Jatropha oil on a commercial sale without modification and as a feedstock for biodiesel and synthetic diesel, is a Ghanaian corporation that is wholly …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Oct 26th, 2009
Biofuel Africa has begun commercial production of jatropha oil, said to be the first company in West Africa to move from growing and selling jatropha fruits and seeds to production and sale of jatropha oil on a commercial scale for …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Oct 26th, 2009
Biofuel Africa has begun commercial production of jatropha oil, said to be the first company in West Africa to move from growing and selling jatropha fruits and seeds to production and sale of jatropha oil on a commercial scale for …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Oct 23rd, 2009
Biofuel Africa Ltd. has begun commercial production of jatropha oil, the first company in West Africa to move from growing and selling jatropha fruits and seeds to production and sale of jatropha oil on a commercial scale for direct use …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Oct 22nd, 2009
GHANA – Norwegian company, Biofuel Africa, has started commercial production of jatropha oil, the first company in West Africa to move from growing and selling jatropha fruits and seeds to production and sale of jatropha oil on a …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Aug 31st, 2009
Angola will begin planting sugar cane for the first time in more than 30 years this month as the oil-rich country takes its first step toward biofuels.
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