(Notícia em Inglês)
Finnish refinery giant Neste Oil has this month opened a major new biodiesel refinery in Singapore, hailing the facility as the world's largest renewable diesel plant.
The company said the new €550m facility will now be ramped up in a phased basis, ultimately delivering 800,000 tonnes a year of the company's NExBTL biodiesel.
Biodiesel has been roundly criticised by environmental groups, which have argued that increased demand for energy crops has inadvertently led to food shortages and deforestation.
However, Neste Oil maintains that its NExBTL renewable diesel can be produced from a "flexible mix of vegetable oils and waste animal fat sourced from the food industry", while its procurement policies ensure that all the feedstocks it uses to produce the diesel are produced responsibly.
The company also claims independent studies have shown that depending on the raw materials used in production, the biodiesel will deliver greenhouse gas emissions of between 40 and 80 per cent compared to conventional diesel, while also resulting in lower tailpipe emissions.
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Finnish refinery giant Neste Oil has this month opened a major new biodiesel refinery in Singapore, hailing the facility as the world's largest renewable diesel plant.
The company said the new €550m facility will now be ramped up in a phased basis, ultimately delivering 800,000 tonnes a year of the company's NExBTL biodiesel.
Biodiesel has been roundly criticised by environmental groups, which have argued that increased demand for energy crops has inadvertently led to food shortages and deforestation.
However, Neste Oil maintains that its NExBTL renewable diesel can be produced from a "flexible mix of vegetable oils and waste animal fat sourced from the food industry", while its procurement policies ensure that all the feedstocks it uses to produce the diesel are produced responsibly.
The company also claims independent studies have shown that depending on the raw materials used in production, the biodiesel will deliver greenhouse gas emissions of between 40 and 80 per cent compared to conventional diesel, while also resulting in lower tailpipe emissions.
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