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NEWS & BLOGS IN  JANUARY  
Algeria is the second largest corn market in North Africa. 

PES Wrong To Blame RFS For Bankruptcy : The collapse in oil prices and the end to a ban on crude exports led to its financial woes.

Global Grain Production Mainly Used For Food, Not Fuel: A new report in Germany says only 4% of global agriculture is used for biofuel production. Read More  

The Ethanol Industry's Economic Footprint In MN's 1st Congressional District: The district has 11 ethanol plants and 28 vendor companies.  Read More
 

E15 sales hit a new record in November last year, bringing the the total volume in 2017 (as of November) to 14.45 million gallons.  Read More

Brazil Considers Lifting Tariff On US Ethanol:   Brazil is studying the removal of a 20-percent tariff on ethanol imports from the United States Read More

Economist Agree RINs Not Wreaking Havoc On Refining Industry A merchant refiner has also admitted there is no economic harm from RINs Read More

EIA Predicts Increased Ethanol Consumption In 2018, 2019:  
Ethanol consumption is expected to increase from 940,000 barrels per day in 2017 to 960,000 barrels per day in 2018 and 970,000 barrels per day in 2019.   Read More

CHS To Use Enogen Corn At Illinois Plant:   CHS will use Syngenta's Enogen Corn at its 130 million gallons a year ethanol plant.  Read More

Ethanol Exports Rise In November: U.S. ethanol exports totaled 107.2 million gallons in November, up 14% from October shipments. Read More

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Iowa Governor, Kim Reynolds, and Minnesota Governor, Mark Dayton, have been appointed as chair and vice chair respectively of the Governors' Biofuels Coalition, a multi-state alliance aimed at providing regional leadership on biofuels policy. 

"We congratulate both Gov. Dayton and Gov. Reynolds on their appointments. Gov. Dayton's commitment to biofuels contributed to a landmark year for E15 in Minnesota in 2017," said Tim Rudnicki, executive director of the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association.

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Earlier this month, JTI Services LLC joined our growing roster of vendor members. The company provides electrical preventative maintenance and safety services to ethanol plants in southern Minnesota. Read more   here .


Another company that joined us this month was Dürr Systems Inc.The company, part of Germany-based Durr Group, provides ethanol producers single rotary valve regenerative thermal oxidizer systems. Read more   here .
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