German chemical giant Bayer has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve different uses for its banned Xtendimax herbicide, designed for dicamba-tolerant soyabeans and cotton, AgriPulse reported on 5 May.

Leading airline company the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has ordered 1,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste.

US biofuel and oilseed groups are becoming increasingly concerned that large volumes of allegedly fraudulent Chinese used cooking oil (UCO) could be coming into the country, Bloomberg reported.

Belgian start-up AmphiStar has secured €6M (US$6.43M) in funding to launch its range of waste-based biosurfactants.

US biofuel groups are challenging the EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation and are demanding an annulment of sections that exclude crop-based biofuels from the definition of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Argus Media wrote on 3 May.

Food ingredient company Moolec Science, which uses molecular farming to grow animal proteins in plants, has gained approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its range of soyabeans containing pork proteins.

The US Treasury has issued guidelines for tax breaks aimed at boosting production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Associated Press News (AP News) reported.

Global marine energy supplier Peninsula has added an IMO II chemical tanker, the Aalborg, to its fleet to supply biofuel in the Port of Barcelona.

German chemical and biotech giant BASF has launched an industrial compostable biopolymer for greenhouse twines.

Germany exported a record level of 2.9M tonnes of biodiesel in 2023 from a total output of 3.9M tonnes, according to a report by Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Plant Proteins (UFOP).

Leading palm oil company Sime Darby Plantation (SD Plantation) has proposed changing its name to SD Guthrie.

Global rapeseed production is forecast to remain stable this year due to expectations of a slight increase in the Australian rapeseed harvest, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Plant Proteins (UFOP) reports.

Asia-based biofuels company EcoCeres plans to start up its Malaysia-based biofuels production unit in the second half of next year, a company executive was quoted as saying by Hydrocarbon Processing.