{"id":44676,"date":"2017-07-31T06:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2017%2F07%2F22%2Freg-completes-upgrades-at-german-biorefinery%2F"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:55:30","slug":"reg-celebrates-completion-of-upgrade-project-at-emden-biorefinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/reg-celebrates-completion-of-upgrade-project-at-emden-biorefinery\/","title":{"rendered":"REG Celebrates Completion of Upgrade Project at Emden Biorefinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGI) marked the completion of upgrades at its Emden, Germany biorefinery Wednesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony with government and community members.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>REG invested 2.5 million \u20ac for the installation of a new biodiesel distillation column and a thermal oil heater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis investment is another milestone in REG\u2019s European strategy to be a leader in delivering high quality biofuels,\u201d said Jean Scemama, Vice President, REG Energy Europe. \u00a0\u201cWithin this strategy, Emden is positioned to perform well with deep water access to receive and deliver products by vessel and can now meet or exceed the highest quality standards required by our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is a result of teamwork across REG\u2019s teams in Europe and the U.S.\u201d said Brad Albin, Vice President, Manufacturing. \u00a0\u201cUpgrading Emden\u2019s distillation capability enables us to more effectively convert lower cost feedstocks into higher quality, lower carbon fuel that improves our environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernd Bornemann, Mayor of Emden, joined other government leaders at the event in praising REG\u2019s investment in the community.\u00a0 \u201cSince the 90s\u2019, the city of Emden has engaged in renewable energies,\u201d Bornemann said.\u00a0 \u201cWe have created a climate protection concept, which is focused on CO<sub>2<\/sub> reduction and a company like REG is the best that could have happened to us because it reduces CO<sub>2<\/sub> with eco-friendly biodiesel for consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>REG acquired full ownership of the Emden biorefinery in January 2017 after its initial majority investment in the former Petrotec AG in December 2014.\u00a0 Emden is one of the company\u2019s two German biorefineries, along with 13 biomass-based diesel refineries across the U.S. that have a combined nameplate production capacity of 1.7 million metric tons or 502 million gallons annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGI) marked the completion of upgrades at its Emden, Germany biorefinery Wednesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony with government and community members. REG invested 2.5 million \u20ac for the installation of a new biodiesel distillation column and a thermal oil heater. \u201cThis investment is another milestone in REG\u2019s European strategy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[12570,12584,13613],"supplier":[1676],"class_list":["post-44676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodiesel","tag-biorefineries","tag-carbonfuel","supplier-renewable-energy-group-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44676"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=44676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}