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UKRAINIAN AGRARIAN POLICY MINISTRY MEANS TO INCREASE GRAIN CROP UP TO 50 MILLION TONS PER YEAR BY 2015

By 2015 grain crop in Ukraine will reach up to 50 million tons per year. This performance is envisaged in a draft state program of social-economic development of the Ukrainian village through 2015, which text is published on the official site of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

10  January  2007

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: CIS News Review - Dec 2006

Russian companies plan to invest over $1.0 bln (767 mln euro) in the construction of biofuel producing facilities in 2007. Among them are Bashneft-South which will build a 130 mln euro ($169.5 mln) biofuel plant, and Aston corporation planning to invest up to 120 mln euro ($156.5 mln) in the construction of biofuel producing facilities.

9  January  2007

Ukraine industry: Government planning network of biodiesel plants

The government has launched plans to construct a network of at least 20 plants for the production of biodiesel fuels, with total production capacity envisioned at over 620,000 tonnes of biofuel by 2010.

9  January  2007

Project Watch

Polish meat producer PKM Druda is hoping to form a 90:10 joint venture with Lurgi to build a 100,000 tonnes/year bioethanol plant near Grabkowo in southwest Poland.

7  January  2007

Kolon Eng wins $239.8 mln Russia plant order

South Korea's Kolon Engineering & Construction Co. said on Thursday it has won a $239.8 million order to build a bioethanol plant in Russia's Volgograd region.

14  December  2006

FACTBOX-Biofuel plants planned in eastern Europe

8  December  2006

Russia to start up biological fuel industry

Beginnings of Russia’s new, biological fuel industry have been laid in Omsk, where the construction of a plant for production of bioethanol, a material for ecologically clean gasoline, began on Thursday.

23  November  2006

Kazakh biofuel pioneer plans more plants

Biohim Co., the first bioethanol producer in the former Soviet Union, plans to build at least three more plants in Kazakhstan to produce fuel from wheat and other crops, a senior company official said on Thursday.

5  November  2006

Serbian bio-ethanol plant to be largest green field investment in Southeast Europe

A Hungarian-US consortium will invest half a billion dollars in building a bio-ethanol plant in the town of Zrenjanin, along with a port and other infrastructure. The plant is expected to employ 1,500 workers.

13  October  2006

Opening of E85 ethanol pump in Paris

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