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Overseas Investments Industry & Economy - Non-conventional Energy Praj Ind commissions UK company’s bioethanol plant Our Bureau Pune, Nov. 5 Praj Industries, biofuels technology company, has recently commissioned UK’s first bioethanol plant for British Sugar at Wissington, Norfolk. The plant would produce 70 million litres fuel grade ethanol from beet sugar syrup. “This is their first ethanol plant and also UK’s first ethanol plant,” according to Mr Shashank Inamdar, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Praj Industries. British Sugar is part of the £6-billion Associated British Foods (ABF). ABF had recently entered into an agreement with BP and DuPont to build a wheat-based biofuel plant in the UK. ABF will hold 45 per cent of the joint venture. Praj Technology has been selected for the project, while its partner Aker Kvaerner is currently carrying out Frond End Engineering & Design (FEED) assignment for this project. He noted that the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) is due to become the UK’s primary mechanism to develop a market for transporting biofuels and delivering the objectives of the Biofuel Directive. The RTFO would require suppliers to ensure that a proportion of the road fuel they supply in the UK comes from renewable sources. The UK Government is due to introduce the RTFO in April 2008, which will also require suppliers to report against environmental and sustainability measures such as ‘reduction in emissions of GHG, e.g. carbon’, he added. More Stories on : Overseas Investments | Non-conventional Energy
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