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This page provides a list of, and links to, key companies involved in biofuels and bioenergy, organized by location.
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Companies by region and country of headquarters
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Africa
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Ghana
- Anuanom Industrial Bio Products Ltd - Develops jatropha plantations and biodiesel plants.
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Mozambique
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South Africa
- Agricultural CEO's Forum
The Agricultural CEO's Forum comprises the chief executives of South Africa’s largest agricultural businesses and business associations and is a member of South Africa's Biofuels Task Force.
- Absa Bank
- NEWS-South Africa's President wants national biofuels strategy ready for publication in November October 25, 2006 by Creamer Media's Engineering News.
- Southern African Biofuels Association (Saba) president and Absa bank agribusiness GM Andrew Makenete stated that President Mbeki has instructed the biofuels task team and Cabinet to have the national biofuels strategy ready for publication in November, which was previously supposed to go through a lengthy process of feedback before finalization.
- NEWS-South Africa's President wants national biofuels strategy ready for publication in November October 25, 2006 by Creamer Media's Engineering News.
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Asia
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China
- China National Petroleum Corporation
- China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (Chinese only)
- BBCA (Mostly Chinese)
- China Clean Energy - "a producer of biodiesel fuel and green specialty chemical products"[1]
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India
- Green Agri Biotech - Agriculture consulting company, which does work with jatropha plantations.
- CleanStar Solutions - Provides consulting services related to biofuel (jatropha, pongamia, etc.) plantations.
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Indonesia
- PT Bakrie Sumatra Plantations Tbk - Palm oil and rubber company.
- PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk - Palm oil company.
- PT Asian Agri
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Japan
- Honda - Honda is producing flexible fuel vehicle, and an experimental cellulosic ethanol plant.
- Marubeni Corporation Has Japan's first cellulosic ethanol plant, using technology licensed from Celunol.
- Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., LTD. -Currently has a bioethanol plant using wood chips and agricultural waste as a feedstock in Japan and is considering building an ethanol plant in Malaysia using agricultural waste from oil palms.
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Korea (Republic of)
- LBL Network Co Ltd - Investing in ethanol plants using cassava as a feedstock in Indonesia. They also produce an ethanol-blended fuel in Korea.Needs citation
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Laos
- Sunlabob - A renewable energy company that does village electrification through solar panels, as well as creating jatropha plantations for oil.
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Malaysia
- Pioneer Bio Industries Corp Sdn Bhd - Is investing 1.4 billion ringgit (€304/US398 million) to set up the first refinery plant to produce Nypa palm ethanol on a large scale [2].
- Golden Hope Plantations (Malaysian), Large oil palm company with a strong sustainability focus:
- Global awards including the Forest Stewardship Council Certification (FSC), ISO 14001, ISO 9000, ISO 9001 and COC.
- Won the Global 500 Award by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for its “Zero Burning” practices."
- Founding member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
- Genting Bhd - Investment holding and management company of Genting Group. Asiatic Development Berhad now has a land bank of over 71,000 hectares and is one of the leading and lowest cost palm oil producers in Malaysia.
- Sime Darby Bhd - Large multi-national with core oil palm plantation business, which is investing in biodiesel plants in Indonesia.
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The Philippines
- Chemrez Inc. - Produces Bio-diesel and diesel additives from coconut oil, as well as oleochemicals.
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Europe
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Belgium
- Organic Waste Systems - Produces anaerobic digesters that convert waste and biomass into biogas, including glycerin, a biodiesel co-product.
- Glycerin as biogas feedstock from biopact, 27 December 2006.
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Germany
- Biogas Nord - "Biogas Nord is an engineering firm that has specialised in the development, planning, construction and operation of biogas plants since the mid-90s."
- CropEnergies AG - bioethanol producer owned by German sugar giant Südzucker.
- EnviTec Biogas - EnviTec Biogas is a company in the biogas industry in Germany. They finance and manufacture biogas block heat power plants, which use organic wastes to produce heat and electricity.
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Hungary
- Mol Group - Large oil company, which will blend 4.4% bio-ethanol from 2007 and 4.4% bio-diesel from 2008. Currently purchases all biofuels produced in Hungary.
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Spain
- Abengoa
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Sweden
- Sekab - Ethanol production and investment group.
- Ecoera AB - Biofuel engineering company, enabling the shift towards second generation solid biomass fuels - Agropellets. Ecoera is currently delivering fuel formulations to EU-project BIOAGRO.
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United Kingdom
- Advaced Plasma Power (UK) uses a two-stage gasification process to convert dried organic waste is into H-rich gas, which can be burnt as a power source (e.g. in cars). The remaining soot & ash can be solidified into a material stronger than granite and can be used as a building material.
- INEOS Enterprises - Major chemical company and biodiesel producer.
- INEOS announces major investment in new biodiesel facility at Port of Antwerp 13 December 2006 from Biofuel Review.
- Oxford Catalysts Plc. Company specializing in catalysts for the production of clean fuels, both biological and traditional petrochemicals.
- Virgin Fuels
- Virgin Group Announces the Formation of Virgin Fuels (Press Release)
- The release stated that Virgin Fuels will invest "up to $400 million dollars in renewable energy initiatives over the next three years," initially through investment in California-based Cilion Inc.[3]
- It also noted that the Virgin Group of companies shares the "belief that all businesses, especially those involved in transportation, must be at the forefront of developing environmentally friendly business strategies with a focus on replacing traditional energy with energy coming from renewable sources."[4]
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Lithuania
- UAB "Bioetan LT" - bioethanol plant under construction, operations will start in Q3 2008
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Latin America and the Caribbean
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Brazil
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Middle East
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North America
*Companies in North America: go here for Canadian and US companies.
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Canada
A full list of Canadian companies is available here
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United States
A full list of US companies is available here.
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Oceania & Pacific
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New Zealand
- Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation - A New Zealand based company that is the first to harvest wild algae (from waste-water treatment plants) for biodiesel production.
- LanzaTech - Developing "an ethanol production process that can be retrofitted to industrial facilities to generate ethanol from the carbon monoxide component of waste flue gases."[5]
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