Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Canada-based Sigma Lithium Corporation ( earlier post ) has begun construction on site to build the foundation and infrastructure installation of its greentech dense media separation production plant, at its wholly owned Grota do Cirilo project in Brazil.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The world has entered the “lithium century” almost without noticing it, but until now this critical industry lacked a central voice. Ltd; AMG Brazil S.A.; The Association will include Members from the entire supply chain: from resource to the end-users. The five founding members of ILiA are SQM; Ganfeng Lithium Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

Green steel products are already in exceptionally high demand from the automotive industry, which will thus be able to reduce its carbon footprint so decisively. In steelmaking, the industrial start-up from Sweden eliminates climate-damaging carbon by using green hydrogen in the direct reduction process of iron.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

will open a joint research center to advance a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in Brazil. The research will focus on technologies that address gaps in a supply chain for sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil, such as feedstock production and processing technologies. Boeing and Embraer S.A.

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Innovation News Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Learn how a new CEO and project places Oceana Lithium at the forefront of the Brazilian lithium mining industry. The post Oceana Lithium shares news on its projects in Brazil and the appointment of a new CEO, Caue Araujo, to lead them appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Stellantis intends to lead the industry with the commitment to be carbon net zero by 2038 – a goal that requires innovation and a complete redefinition of the entire business. In Brazil, it is targeting approximately 20% low emission vehicle (LEV) sales mix by the end of the decade.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Breaking with its past support of EPA’s RFS implementation decisions, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) is formally opposing EPA’s proposal—due to be released in about two weeks—to reduce RFS volume targets for 2014, 2015, 2016 ( earlier post ). UNICA had earlier submitted comments opposing the proposed changes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2013

UK-based TMO Renewables (TMO) and Usina Santa Maria Ltda have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to build the first commercial production plant in Brazil to convert sugar cane waste (bagasse) to cellulosic bioethanol. This will be followed by the construction of a full-scale industrial plant. 11(6):398-408. 2009.08.005.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rio Tinto and H2 Green Steel , an industrial startup establishing large scale production of green steel, have signed a multi-year supply agreement for high-grade direct reduction iron ore (DRI) pellets from Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) operations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2023

Brazil-based Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, announced a project to evaluate an investment in producing carbon-negative bio-based polypropylene (PP) in the US.

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2023

Besides the massive retooling effort that has taken the auto industry by storm over the past two years, the search for raw materials for EV batteries has become a growing priority for automakers. As automakers look to move away from the more controversial rare earth elements, nickel supplies will likely only become increasingly important.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

GraalBio, a biotechnology company of the Graal Group, is planning to build a commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol in Brazil. an associative business model as it complements the first-generation ethanol industry, presenting significant synergies to both sides. Source: Chemtex. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

The plant will be built at the Kenfig Industrial Estate Port Talbot in Wales. OXIS has signed a 15-year lease with United UK Real Estate Investment Industrial Holdings Limited to develop the plant. OXIS is currently working on the design of the Brazilian Plant with NORDIKA Pharmaceutical of Brazil.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

Parts of our key supply chains, including for clean energy, are currently over-concentrated in China,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this month during a visit to Chile, home to the largest lithium reserves. The global lithium industry is so interwoven with Chinese capital now that it’s going to be impossible to unpick.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2010

Hedayat said that IDRO is now working on projects for utilizing plant fuel, and added, “The existence of vast cane farms in southern (Iran), fuel, engine and vehicle research centers and auto-making companies indicates that the organization enjoys the required capability for research, production and supply of plant fuel.”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The anticipated partnership was announced during the first commercial flight with a renewable jet fuel in Brazil by the airline earlier today. We are committed to working with the aviation industry to bring cleaner skies, starting in Brazil in 2014. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Biotech Brazil Fuels'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2012

have formed a strategic alliance that includes the establishment of an equally-owned joint venture for the production of cellulosic liquid fuels and chemicals in Brazil, as well as a US$20-million equity investment in Ensyn Corporation by Fibria. Felda Palm Industries Sdn Bhd, and Investeco Capital Corp. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2022

Bcf/d (4.5%) from 2020, according to The LNG Industry GIIGNL Annual Report 2022 by the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers ( GIIGNL ). Bcf/d) lower during 2021 than 2020 because larger volumes of flexible LNG supplies, primarily from the United States, were shipped to Asia and Brazil. An average of 49.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Aside from replacing grey hydrogen in industrial processes, green hydrogen will also have a multiplier effect when used in the production of renewable fuels that will replace traditional fossil fuels. Implementing this project will save six million tons of CO 2 emissions per year. Twenty percent of all projects worldwide are located in Spain.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

The Vancouver-based company, whose main business is a hard rock lithium project at Brazil’s Grota do Cirilo , started scouting for potential buyers about a year ago. Brazil, which heavily depends on biofuels, exports most of its lithium. It also inked a supply deal last year with commodity trader Glencore.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2017

This year, shale output forecasts combine with OPEC’s production cuts, geopolitical factors, and unexpected outages to further complicate supply/demand and oil price forecasts by Wall Street’s major investment banks. UBS, for its part, expects a 4-million-bpd supply gap by 2020. shale output. million bpd. Meanwhile, short-cycle U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Greenergy International Ltd, one of the largest fuel suppliers in the UK, has entered into a joint venture with Bauche Group (30%), a leading expert in the sugarcane industry, to source and sell Brazilian bioethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Commencement of fuel supplies in FY 2020. Among the report’s conclusions: Industry, government and academia in Japan need to collaborate to promote the introduction of sustainable aviation biofuel to support Japan's energy security and reduce aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. MHI) will supply two electric buses to serve in a transportation system being planned by the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A variety of demonstration tests of the electric buses have been conducted in numerous locations both in Japan and overseas, including São Paulo, Brazil.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2023

OECD demand, dragged down by weak industrial activity and warm weather, contracted by 390 kb/d y-o-y in 1Q23, its second consecutive quarter of decline. Extra cuts by OPEC+ will push world oil supply down 400 kb/d by end of 2023. Non-OPEC+, led by the US and Brazil, drives the 2023 expansion, rising 1.9 mb/d versus 4.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2011

has commissioned its second industrial-scale facility for the production of Biofene, Amyris’s renewable farnesene. Biofene may be sold directly into industrial applications or put through simple chemical finishing steps to form a broad range of renewable products including squalane, base oil and finished lubricants and diesel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

With reciChain, our goal is to revitalize the value of plastics and significantly improve circularity in the supply chain. The result is a more competitive circular supply chain rather than a linear one, extending the lifecycle of plastics. —Marcelo Lu, President, BASF Canada.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Ballard Power Systems has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with The City of Sao Pãulo, Brazil for 25 FCvelocity-HD6 fuel cell modules to power 25 buses in that city. Earlier in December, Ballard signed an equipment supply agreement with Van Hool NV, Europe’s fourth largest bus manufacturer, for 21 FCvelocity-HD6 fuel cell power modules.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Combining a scalable battery anode production facility with integrated graphite mining operations, the project will be powered by 100% renewable electricity to supply ultra-low emission coated anodes for green lithium-ion batteries. This work is important for steel, car and battery manufacturing industries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

HDA), a Honda subsidiary in Brazil responsible for production and sales of motorcycles and power products, will begin sales in Brazil of the flex fuel CG150 TITAN MIX in mid-March 2009. In Brazil, approximately 90% of new automobiles sold in Brazil are equipped with flexible-fuel technology. Moto Honda da Amazonia Ltda.(HDA),

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU), with the intention to form a circa $12 billion joint venture (JV) in Brazil for the production of ethanol, sugar and power, and the supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels. Tags: Brazil Cellulosic ethanol Ethanol. Ethanol logistics assets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

will begin supplying an expected 160 city buses in the Brazilian city of São Paulo with Amyris renewable diesel—a pure hydrocarbon drop-in fuel derived from sugarcane (known locally as Diesel de Cana). The supply contract runs through the end of 2012. Amyris Brasil S.A., a subsidiary of Amyris, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2012

Solazyme produces tailored oils using heterotrophic algae grown in industrial fermenters. Using standard industrial fermentation equipment, Solazyme can scale and accelerate microalgae’s natural oil production time to just a few days and at commercial levels. Source: Solazyme. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

In addition to North America, we are currently looking at the freight train market in Europe, Australia, Brazil and South Africa—all of which are ideally suited for the transformation of their current diesel stock. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Sustainable Feedstocks for Aviation Fuels program will identify and trial new fuel sources that are compatible with existing land uses with the ultimate goal of developing commercially-viable feedstock to fuel supply chains this decade. —Deborah O’Connell.

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