The first pictures of the first ethanol plant in Brazil using Proesa technology
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This year’s Sustainable Bio Awards will recognise the tremendous innovation that is taking place in the development of truly sustainable bio-based fuels and products.

In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the “Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy” as voted by the readers of The Digest and the publication’s editorial board.

M&G Chemicals announces today its decision to construct a second-generation bio-refinery in the region of Fuyang, Anhui Province of China for the conversion of one million metric tons of biomass into bio-ethanol and bio-glycols.

In contrast to a welter of gloomy commentaries over Italy’s inability to compete globally, a locally led international consortium has achieved a breakthrough in what could lead to a “green revolution” in providing new fuels to cut carbon emissions.

The world’s first commercial-scale plant for the production of bioethanol from non-food biomass sources was officially inaugurated today before the Minister for Economic Development Flavio Zanonato and the local Authorities
(President of the Regional Administration Roberto Cota, Mayor of Crescentino Marinella Venegoni, President of the Provincial Administration Carlo Riva Vercellotti).

Official Opening Ceremony of the World's 1st commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant: the Crescentino bio-refinery.