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Biodiesel output in Italy, a major producer in the European Union, is expected to fall some 18 percent to about 600,000 tonnes this year hit by surging inflows of cheaper imports, a senior industry official said on Friday.
Italian biodiesel makers, who use mostly imported raw materials including palm oil and rapeseed, have been hit hard in the past couple of years by cheap imports which sometimes cost less than the raw materials, industry experts have said.
"Production is expected at 600,000 tonnes in 2011," said Maria Rosaria Di Somma, director general of the industry body Assocostieri-Unione Produttori Biocarburanti.
reuters.com»
Biodiesel output in Italy, a major producer in the European Union, is expected to fall some 18 percent to about 600,000 tonnes this year hit by surging inflows of cheaper imports, a senior industry official said on Friday.
Italian biodiesel makers, who use mostly imported raw materials including palm oil and rapeseed, have been hit hard in the past couple of years by cheap imports which sometimes cost less than the raw materials, industry experts have said.
"Production is expected at 600,000 tonnes in 2011," said Maria Rosaria Di Somma, director general of the industry body Assocostieri-Unione Produttori Biocarburanti.
reuters.com»