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Avantium to raise at least 90 million euros in IPO

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- Avantium, a Dutch company that has developed technology for making plastic from sugars rather than petrochemicals, said on Monday it hopes to raise at least 90 million euros in an initial public offering, giving it a market capitalization of $279.95 million.

Oil, biofuels groups urge US EPA deny refiner requests to tweak RFS program

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A coalition of trade groups representing oil, biofuels and other interests pressed the US government on Thursday to deny requests to tweak the country's biofuels program, the latest in a series of political maneuvers that have roiled markets.

Driving innovation in the downstream: IRPC returns to New Delhi

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

Gulf Publishing Company and Hydrocarbon Processing are pleased to announce that IRPC 2017 will be held April 18–20 in New Delhi.

White House denies Trump order on biofuels program pending, markets roiled

(Reuters) -- The White House on Tuesday denied that President Donald Trump planned to issue an executive order to change the national biofuels program, after the US Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) said Trump's team had informed the group an order was pending.

RFA: Trump to shift biofuel blending burden off refiners

(Reuters) -- The head of the Renewable Fuels Association said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's administration would lift the responsibility for fuel blending off refiners, which had long requested this change to the nation's biofuel program.

Mexico tequila maker has a shot at turning agave waste into fuel

TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -- One of Mexico's most famous tequila companies, Herradura, hopes to turn into fuel the thousands of tons of waste it generates each year from the spiky blue agave plants used to make the spirit, and cut its energy bill, said its engineering director.

Big Corn courts old foe Big Oil to combat electric car threat

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -- A US biofuels lobbying group on Tuesday said it is seeking to work with longtime rival the oil industry to fight the threat to both from subsidies for electric vehicles.

Neutral Fuels pioneers dairy waste as new biofuel feedstock

Dubai – After two years of research into new ways to create biofuels, Neutral Fuels has become the first company to successfully use butter, cream and ghee waste as a feedstock for creating commercial biofuel.

UK grocer first in Europe to use new trucks fueled by food waste

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -- A British supermarket has become the first retailer in Europe to use a new type of tank that keeps trucks motoring on fuel made from food waste for 500 miles, almost twice the current average.

Green Plains sees 2017 US ethanol exports around 1.1 B gallons

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- US ethanol manufacturer Green Plains Inc sees the total industry on track to export 1.1 billion or more gallons of the biofuel in 2017, even with China absent as a buyer, an executive said on Thursday.