Apr 15, 2025
Biomass specialist Dall Group announces new Group CEO
Biomass News
Apr 14, 2025
Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways have agreed to work together with Renewable Developments Australia (RDA) to become key partners on a project that will set out to deliver a homegrown Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production facility in the Charters Towers Region of North Queensland.
The project aims to establish a fully-integrated Ethanol to Jet (EtJ) facility that... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 10, 2025
Over 300+ biomass trade and tech professionals are expected at the 15th Biomass Pellet Trade Asia and Biocarbon & Torrefied Biomass Summit, hosted by CMT, from May 20-22, 2025, at the Tokyo Marriott Hotel.
This summit is set to be the most impactful yet, offering unparalleled insights into market trends, policy developments and technological advancements shaping the... [Read More]
Policy News
Apr 9, 2025
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality's (MDEQ) Permit Board has denied Drax's application to become a “major” source of Hazardous Air Pollutants, or HAPs, reported Mississippi Today.
The new permit would have allowed the company’s wood pellet facility, Amite BioEnergy, to release more potentially harmful air pollutants than what it is currently allowed... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 8, 2025
The ButoVal Research Project was officially launched on 11 March 2025 in Witvlei, Namibia.
This strategic initiative aims to enact sustainable biomass utilisation to address the adverse effects of bush encroachment in the country.
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is supported by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
According... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 4, 2025
Sac Economic & Tourism Development Ltd. (SETD), Ecostrat and the BDO Zone Initiative have announced the issue of an investment grade BDO Zone ‘A’ Rating for Sac County, Iowa in the US.
The BDO Zone is rated for 824,000 bone-dry tons per year of corn stover and extends within a 75-mile radius from the centre point, Sac City, IA.
Sac County's 'A' rating indicates... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 3, 2025
Canfor Corporation and Canfor Pulp Products Inc. have released their joint 2024 Sustainability Report.
The report describes the companies' approach to managing environmental, social and governance activities, and reports on established targets.
Report highlights include maintaining certifications for sustainable forest management and fibre procurement activities, with... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 3, 2025
Evero Energy (Evero), a leading waste-wood-to-energy and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) company, announces the appointment of Elliot Renton to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He succeeds Simon Hicks who steps down after four–years in the role.
With two decades of experience in senior leadership positions, Renton brings a strong track record of strategic... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 2, 2025
There is renewed interest by large industry users in exploring biomass as an industrial heat decarbonisation option.
This follows the recent publication of the Irish government’s Industrial Heating Decarbonisation Roadmap.
The government is also seeking to extend the biomass support under the Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH) to the emissions trading sector.
Later... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 28, 2025
Austrian holding company Nextwood Two, has submitted a merger report to acquire KUREKSS.
Nextwood is indirectly owned by HS Timber, one of the world's leading wood-working companies. It operates in the fields of bioenergy production, as well as wood processing and sawn timber trade.
KUREKSS is a lumber producer and exporter, which owns a sawmill in the Ventspils region.
It... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 28, 2025
Waste-to-energy company Compact Syngas Solutions has been awarded funding to drive industrial decarbonisation in the hard-to-abate Kenyan tea sector – in one of the first five projects in a new United Nations scheme.
Multi-million-pound funding has been awarded by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) facility,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 26, 2025
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a programme for high-efficiency cogeneration from biomass-to-biogas projects in Poland.
The initiative will have a budget of €238 million from the EU Modernisation Fund, Polish National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.
With a particular focus on waste biomass, the funding is designed to accelerate... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 21, 2025
Kemper County, Ecostrat, and the BDO Zone Initiative have announced the issue of an investment grade BDO Zone ‘A’ Rating for Kemper County, Mississippi.
The BDO Zone is rated for 1,105,000 bone dry tons per year of woody biomass and extends within a 75-mile radius from the centre point, Scooba, MS.
Kemper County's 'A' rating indicates high prospective viability to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 21, 2025
px Group, a leading fully integrated industrial operations and solutions provider based in Teesside, England, has appointed Tracy Wilson-Long as its new Managing Director Power & Renewables.
Originally from Teesside, Tracy brings a wealth of experience to the role, having previously held strategic leadership positions at bp Exploration & Production and Exergy... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 20, 2025
Elyse Energy and its partners have selected BioTfueL® technology for its biomass-to-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project called BioTJet.
This initiative will produce sustainable SAF from end-of-life wood waste & local forestry residues with the addition of green hydrogen.
Led by Elyse Energy and with Axens, Avril and IFPEN as partners, the BioTJet project aims... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 20, 2025
Mark Hayton has been announced as the new Chair of the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA), taking over from Richard Coulson who steps down after a four-year term.
Richard chaired his final members’ meeting and AGM in Bristol on March 19, before handing over the reins to Mark, director of wood recycling company EGGER Timberpak, which sources waste wood for EGGER’s... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 19, 2025
British American Tobacco has invested €4.7 million in a biomass-fuelled heating plant at its cigarette factory in Kanfanar, Croatia aiming to cut the factory's CO2 emissions by 65%, reported See News.
BAT acquired the factory in Kanfanar, on the Istria peninsula, in 2015 when it took over local tobacco company Tvornica Duhana Rovinj (TDR) for over €500 million.
According... [Read More]
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