A new Cargill Inc. subsidiary announced plans Monday to build four ethanol plants in the Midwest, each with an annual capacity of 100 million gallons.
The plants will almost triple the ethanol production capacity Cargill directly owns, Cargill spokesman Bill Brady said. Combined with service agreements Cargill has with independently owned ethanol plants, they’ll give Cargill […]
Explosive growth in the ethanol industry is prompting many corn farmers to look for an alternative source for the alternative fuel.
One place they’re looking is in their fields after the corn harvest.
Scientists are developing ways to turn crop residues such as corn stover into ethanol, and demonstration plants could begin using such materials within the […]
A South Dakota-based company is planning to build an ethanol plant just outside the northern Indiana town dubbed Biotown USA by state officials for a project aimed at using renewable sources to provide all its energy.
The White County commissioners are expected on Monday to consider a request to rezone about 270 acres to allow construction […]
Sugar fell to a three- month low Tuesday as tumbling prices for energy eroded the appeal of sugar cane, which is used to make ethanol — an alternative to gasoline.
The price of sugar fell 20 percent last year on speculation that global production would outpace demand. Crude oil fell Tuesday to its lowest level in […]
A new Cargill Inc. subsidiary announced plans Monday to build four ethanol plants in the Midwest, each with an annual capacity of 100 million gallons.
The plants will almost triple the ethanol production capacity Cargill directly owns, Cargill spokesman Bill Brady said. Combined with service agreements Cargill has with independently owned ethanol plants, they’ll give Cargill […]
Magic Valley is going green. Or yellow, to be more specific.
Two out-of-state companies plan to build corn-based ethanol plants near Burley.
Pacific Ethanol Inc., a California alternative-energy company, and Renova Energy, a London-based energy company, plan to open ethanol facilities in southern Idaho within the next 18 months.
City officials and area farmers are thrilled, and they […]
A Malaysian company is building what it says is the world’s first plant to commercially produce ethanol from nipah palm trees, with the product aimed mainly for export to countries looking for alternatives to gasoline, its chairman said Saturday.
Pioneer Bio Industries Corp. Sdn. Bhd. said it is building the plant in northern Perak state to […]
VX Racing team boss Ian Harrison says he believes the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship should become a bio-ethanol fuelled series in an effort to take the championship to an even bigger audience.
Alternative fuels have become a feature of the series over the past few seasons, initially in 2004 when Mardi Gras ran a […]
The ethanol industry appears poised for a big year in 2007, as companies scramble to take advantage of continuing government subsidies and a growing political desire to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil.
But Wall Street investors who went pedal-to-the-metal during ethanol’s midyear frenzy in initial public offerings of stock seem to be easing off […]
From major economic development announcements and projects in terms of two ethanol plants to the nearly completed expansion of the Wells County Library and state accolades to Norwell students, Wells County experienced good times in 2006.
From the untimely and tragic deaths of several Wells County residents to the closing of an Ossian manufacturing plant that […]