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14 April 2009
The €6 million BioMara research project – investigating the feasibility of using algae to produce biofuel – has been launched this month by Scotland’s Energy Minister, Jim Mather. With the European Parliament calling for 10% of road transport fuel to come from renewable sources by 2020, sustainable, industrial-scale biofuel production has become an urgent challenge.
BioMara [...]
Category: Bio energy, Energy
Econcern announces business refocus: 200 job losses expected
4 April 2009
Econcern has announced the loss of an estimated 200 jobs as it refocuses on its core strengths. Approximately half of the jobs lost will be in the Netherlands.
Chairman of the board, Ad van Wijk, announced in February that the company had been affected by the credit crisis and economic recession. In response, the company [...]
Category: Bio energy, Energy
Largest 2nd generation biofuel plant in the world scheduled to start production in April
8 March 2009
Private equity firm Waterland is pleased to announce it reached a final agreement with sustainable energy company Econcern about participation in BioMCN in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. Econcern also acts on behalf of the other shareholders, NOM and Teijin.
The additional capital enables BioMCN to continue further investments in the construction of processing units for the [...]
Category: Bio energy, Energy
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