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Home / Bioethanol / News Biofuels newsKazakhstan in strong position despite under-performing harvestKazakhstans Agricultural Minister Akylbek Kurishbayev made a curious announcement on January 11. During a regular weekly meeting of the Kazakhstan cabinet in the capital Astana, Kurishbayev announced that the country has enough grain to feed its people and keep prices stable. But that should have been no surprise in a country that is emerging, despite last years harvest shortfall, as the key grain, especially wheat, swing producer for the entire former Soviet region. 15 January 2011 Cargill more than triples its profit
Company traders reacting quickly to word of a drought-induced Russian ban on wheat exports helped fill Cargill's coffers. 15 January 2011 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 Ukraine's 2011 grain crop forecast higherUkraine's 2011 grain harvest sill exceed last year's level of 39 million tonnes because wet weather and the absence of severe frosts have created excellent conditions for grains, forecasters said on Wednesday. 15 January 2011 Russia to launch grain trading via exchanges in Jan: reportRussia will launch exchange-based grain trading in January, the country's Ria Novosti news agency quoted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying Thursday. "From the beginning of January 2011 we will start weekly trading...of grain from the intervention fund via the exchanges to the amount of 400,000-500,000 mt per month," Putin said. 15 January 2011 Russian co to build 1.2 billion ruble complex to make pelletsRussia's Volga Biofuel Company plans to build a 1.2 billion ruble complex in the Nizhny Novgorod Region by 2020 to produce wood pellets and other types of biofuels, Volga Biofuel Company CEO Vyacheslav Balyasov said Tuesday. 15 January 2011 Austrian BDI BioEnergy wins EUR 10m order in BelarusAustrian waste-to-biofuel technology company BDI BioEnergy International AG (ETR:D7I) has received an order of EUR 10 million (USD 13.4m) for the construction of a bio-diesel plant in Belarus. 15 January 2011 Kazakhstan: President signed laws on state regulation of manufacture and turnover of biofuelThe President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed the law on state regulation of manufacture and turnover of biofuel and the law on the amendments and additions to some acts concerning state regulation of manufacture and turnover of biofuel directed at bringing the legislation of Kazakhstan in conformity with the norms of the law on state regulation of manufacture and turnover of biofuel, the agency reports citing the president's press service. 20 November 2010 Russian Technologies to build first biofuel plant in Siberia in 2011State-owned Russian Technologies corporation plans to start building the country's first biofuel plant next year in Siberia, company head Sergei Chemezov said on Monday. "We have signed all the agreements and will start building the plant from March-April. It is impossible to start building in winter there due to the weather, but we will have finished all project design works by the end of the year," Chemezov told President Dmitry Medvedev. 20 November 2010 Statoil Now Blending Inbicon's Cellulosic Ethanol for Danish DriversAs Statoil rolls out a 5% ethanol blend at 100 selected petrol stations across Denmark, Inbicon reported today that it has already begun supplying Statoil with second-generation bioethanol made from wheat straw. Inbicon will be the major supplier of The New Ethanol, as it calls its renewable fuel made from various crop wastes. 13 November 2010 IDGC of North-West to invest $32.5mn in biomass thermal power plantInterregional distribution grid company IDGC of North-West has prepared a feasibility study for building a thermal power plant operating on biofuel in the Mezen District of the Arkhangelsk Region, northeast European Russia. Investment in the project is estimated at RUR1bn ($32.5mn, or €23.2mn). / fcinfo.ru 13 November 2010 Page: 1 2 345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 
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